Getting A4 pages out of a custom doc

[eastender]

A client has sent me several Quark docs and the output PDFs of a job
that was printed as three contiguous A4 pages backing another three (ie
it's a four page section with a fold out page). But in both Quark and
Acrobat it's showing only as two pages, with a page size of 627mm wide
by 297mm high.

What I want to do is output individual A4 pages so I can shuffle them
into the right order for a web download. But there doesn't seem to be an
elegant way to do this using Quark or Acrobat - on the Quark.com forum
I've been advised to create a new doc and paste PDFs as pics on each of
the six pages. Or I guess I can cut and paste whole Quark pages.

Any ideas?

thx

E.

[Duncan Kennedy]

In message <nospam-1E75D4....@news.virginmedia.com>,
eastender <nos...@nospam.com> writes

As I understand it, what you have, effectively, is 2 (or 3?) A4 pages as
a single A3 (or larger) page . I've managed to scrape round this by
deleting ("cutting") pages 2 (and 3) and saving page 1 as a different
file name. Then, from the original document, deleting pages 1 (and 3)
etc. until you have as many single pages as you need.

It does depend on you being able to cut from the original then reduce
the page size to match the contents (i.e. to A4). The Window> Split
tool might do the job better than the crop as you need to split into
pages so that pages can be deleted.

--
Duncan K
Downtown Dalgety Bay

[eastender]

In article <1Tk0FKHi...@btinternet.com>,
Duncan Kennedy <nos...@nospam.otterson-bg.couk> wrote:

> As I understand it, what you have, effectively, is 2 (or 3?) A4 pages as
> a single A3 (or larger) page . I've managed to scrape round this by
> deleting ("cutting") pages 2 (and 3) and saving page 1 as a different
> file name. Then, from the original document, deleting pages 1 (and 3)
> etc. until you have as many single pages as you need.
>
> It does depend on you being able to cut from the original then reduce
> the page size to match the contents (i.e. to A4). The Window> Split
> tool might do the job better than the crop as you need to split into
> pages so that pages can be deleted.

OK - will try this in Quark. I naively thought I could just reset the
master document page size and it would all flow into the new pages but I
don't think you can do that in Quark. The problem is that once it's in
one page then Quark and Acrobat both go on thinking it's one page...

I think I'll just have to remake the damned things.

E.

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:50:57 +0000, eastender <nos...@nospam.com>
wrote:

Can you not print to A4 PDF, and only print pages 1-1, then pages 2-2
etc in the printer dialogue box?

Or does the choice of pages come from the source, rather than how it'd
end up on the printer?

Cheers - Jaimie
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