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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Can anyone recommend a good program for making PDF files?
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DarkMaze
Joined: Feb 24 2006
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http://pdf995.com/
Install it, and it works essentially like a printer. Take your Word Doc/image/whatever and it'll print to a PDF file. It'll give you a web pop-up because it's shareware, but it doesn't mess with your PDF file at all. Highly recommended, and free.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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Thanks, hopefully I can get it to do what I want.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
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OK, I am having a problem, it's not so much with PDF software itself, but let me try and explain it.
I am trying to build a PDF document using images of scanned pages from a real document. The problem is, the images are 1346 x 500 and Microsoft Word automatically resizes them for some reason.
Another problem, the PDF software doesn't obey Word linebreaks the way that I want it to. Instead of starting a new page immediately, I am left with lots of and lots of whitespace because the program compiling it into 8x11 pages.
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DarkMaze
Joined: Feb 24 2006
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This may only partially help, or not at all, but: When you go to "print" the document, the Properties for PDF995 allow you to define the dimensions of each page, so that you can set them to any crazy number you want. I've had to do that a lot, but so far only for single-page documents.
It seems that you can also set page dimensions in Word, too (File > Page Setup... > Paper [tab]).
In both cases, you'll need to know the size of your scanned images in inches (perhaps from the source pages that you scanned?), or keep the ratio the same and be willing to accept a little resizing.
Lemme know if that helps, or if your problem is something else entirely.
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RegalSin
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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I'm having some sort of weird issue now. I set up custom pages, I got it looking the way I want. But it keeps saying the margins are wrong. If I click "Fix", it adds 3 inches worth of margin on the left hand side for no reason. If I hit ignore, it forces the pages back down to 8x11 in the PDF file for no good reason.
Darkmaze, have you used this software to any real extent? If I sent you the image files or the Word Document, would you be willing to give it a shot? I'd really like to avoid resizing if possible so that the fine print will be readable at higher magnifications.
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DarkMaze
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I'd be glad to give it a shot. Go ahead and send the image files. You want a multi-page document with each image being a page, correct? No margins -- each page the same dimensions as the image?
If you want, send your Word file too, for reference.
And lastly, do you know the original dimensions of each page in inches?
You can send 'em to: ed DOT glaser AT gmail DOT com
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