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Re: single Word file prints as two documents

Denis Pelli <denis.pe...@nyu.edu>

dear beth

yes, there is a section break. i suppose that it's corrupted.

best

denis

Beth Rosengard <bethroseng...@earthlink.net> wrote in message <news:BDC38239.525D%bethrosengard@earthlink.net>...
> Hi Denis,

> This phenomenon has been noted when there is a Section Break in the Word
> document.  Is that the case here?

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> 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?

> > Denis Pelli
> > Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU
> > http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/