There is a bug in Microsoft Word (all Macintosh versions tested) that makes certain documents tricky to print to PDF, e.g. <http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/docs/WordMultiplePrintBug.doc>. For unknown reasons, all versions of Word print this document in two parts.
If you ask Word to create a PDF of the whole document (by printing to Adobe PDF or by clicking Save as PDF in the Print Dialog box), Word treats the two parts as separate documents, and creates a PDF for page 1, and another PDF for page 2. This wouldn't be so bad except that the Adobe PDF "printer" saves both files with the same name, so the second one silently replaces the first. Save as PDF is somewhat better behaved and automatically saves the two files with different names.
We're using the latest: Microsoft Word 2004 (version 11.1) and Mac OS X 10.3.6.
Does anyone understand why this happens, or how to prevent it?
<denis.pe...@nyu.edu> wrote: > There is a bug in Microsoft Word (all Macintosh versions tested) that > makes certain documents tricky to print to PDF, e.g. > <http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/docs/WordMultiplePrintBug.doc>. For > unknown reasons, all versions of Word print this document in two > parts.
> If you ask Word to create a PDF of the whole document (by printing to > Adobe PDF or by clicking Save as PDF in the Print Dialog box), Word > treats the two parts as separate documents, and creates a PDF for page > 1, and another PDF for page 2. This wouldn't be so bad except that the > Adobe PDF "printer" saves both files with the same name, so the second > one silently replaces the first. Save as PDF is somewhat better > behaved and automatically saves the two files with different names.
> We're using the latest: Microsoft Word 2004 (version 11.1) and Mac OS > X 10.3.6.
> Does anyone understand why this happens, or how to prevent it?
> On 11/18/04 6:51 PM, in article > 9f84c0af.0411181851.5f53b...@posting.google.com, "Denis Pelli" > <denis.pe...@nyu.edu> wrote:
> > There is a bug in Microsoft Word (all Macintosh versions tested) that > > makes certain documents tricky to print to PDF, e.g. > > <http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/docs/WordMultiplePrintBug.doc>. For > > unknown reasons, all versions of Word print this document in two > > parts.
> > If you ask Word to create a PDF of the whole document (by printing to > > Adobe PDF or by clicking Save as PDF in the Print Dialog box), Word > > treats the two parts as separate documents, and creates a PDF for page > > 1, and another PDF for page 2. This wouldn't be so bad except that the > > Adobe PDF "printer" saves both files with the same name, so the second > > one silently replaces the first. Save as PDF is somewhat better > > behaved and automatically saves the two files with different names.
> > We're using the latest: Microsoft Word 2004 (version 11.1) and Mac OS > > X 10.3.6.
> > Does anyone understand why this happens, or how to prevent it?
In article <9f84c0af.0411192338.4319b...@posting.google.com>, denis.pe...@nyu.edu (Denis Pelli) wrote:
> yes, there is a section break. i suppose that it's corrupted.
No, it's not necessarily corruption. AFAICT, only section breaks that change Page settings (e.g., margins, orientation) cause the split. This was never a problem before Print to PDF, since it didn't matter how many print jobs were sent to a hard-copy printer. It *does* matter, obviously, with saving to pdf.
I have Acrobat, so I use that to recombine the files. versiontracker lists a few highly rated freeware PDF joiners (joinPDF, PDFLab, and Combine PDFs)
This is a notorious issue with the way in which Apple's print APIs deal with a print job sent in multiple pieces. This is the only way that word can send a job that contains section breaks that have different page setups. Word stores a separate page setup for each section (next page). These are sent as separate jobs when being passed to PDF. As of yet, Apple has not provided a way to join those jobs on the fly and it is unknown when/if they will.
John's suggestions about using a joiner is probably the best option as things stand now,
Hope this helps.
Rob Daly Macintosh Business Unit Word Test
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> In article <9f84c0af.0411192338.4319b...@posting.google.com>, > denis.pe...@nyu.edu (Denis Pelli) wrote:
>> yes, there is a section break. i suppose that it's corrupted.
> No, it's not necessarily corruption. AFAICT, only section breaks that > change Page settings (e.g., margins, orientation) cause the split. This > was never a problem before Print to PDF, since it didn't matter how many > print jobs were sent to a hard-copy printer. It *does* matter, > obviously, with saving to pdf.
> I have Acrobat, so I use that to recombine the files. versiontracker > lists a few highly rated freeware PDF joiners (joinPDF, PDFLab, and > Combine PDFs)
