Generate pdf from 250 pages of eps Adobe Illustrator files, while resizing them all?

[drel...@gmail.com]

Hello there!

I have finished 250 pages of illustrations in Adobe Illustrator.

I would now like to generate a pdf for publication.

I would like to resize each illustration, to place it on stanard A4 or
Letter paper, with 1 inch margins surround the illustration.

Might anyone know the easiest way to do this--to generate the final
pdf?

Any tips/directions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks so much!

[Doug Winger]

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<5de46f97-da38-4486...@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
drel...@gmail.com wrote:

> I have finished 250 pages of illustrations in Adobe Illustrator.
>
> I would now like to generate a pdf for publication.
>
> I would like to resize each illustration, to place it on stanard A4
> or
> Letter paper, with 1 inch margins surround the illustration.
>
> Might anyone know the easiest way to do this--to generate the final
> pdf?

Not having mentioned what OS or system you're using, I'm forced to
recommend Acrobat Professional or an older version of Acrobat.
"Distilling" multiple ai or eps files to a pdf is what it's meant for.

- Doug

[robert_b]

Your best bet is to lay them up in InDesign with a table of contents. Then,
when you export to PDF you can have hotlinked pages.

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[drel...@gmail.com]

On Jul 11, 9:29 pm, Doug Winger <justd...@socal.rr.com> wrote:
> In article
> <5de46f97-da38-4486-8065-94acba679...@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,

>
>  drell...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I have finished 250 pages of illustrations in Adobe Illustrator.
>
> > I would now like to generate a pdf for publication.
>
> > I would like to resize each illustration, to place it on stanard A4
> > or
> > Letter paper, with 1 inch margins surround the illustration.
>
> > Might anyone know the easiest way to do this--to generate the final
> > pdf?
>
> Not having mentioned what OS or system you're using, I'm forced to
> recommend Acrobat Professional or an older version of Acrobat.
> "Distilling" multiple ai or eps files to a pdf is what it's meant for.
>
> - Doug

Thanks!

I'm using Adobe Acrobat CS3.

Is there some way to "distill" multiple eps files in this?

Thanks!

Elliot

[steggy]

drel...@gmail.com schreef:

I believe Doug just said so?

I wanted to give it a try, but Acrobat is such a pain...I own the full
version of CS2, tried to open up Acrobat Professional and it tells me I
need another Adobe piece of software to be opened..well Illustrator is
open is that not enough?

Let's try Photoshop. No, Acrobat will not open.

I said Acrobat is a pain, but I think in this case Adobe is the pain, to
prevent steeling they make it hard on good willing customers.

[Doug Winger]

In article
<95ad2537-f563-4d7b...@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
drel...@gmail.com wrote:

> I'm using Adobe Acrobat CS3.
>
> Is there some way to "distill" multiple eps files in this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Elliot

Yes. In fact, it's called 'Acrobat Distiller' :) The process is: set
distiller to output to taste, "distill" files to pdf, and then use
Acrobat itself to build/edit the final document. Distiller's job is to
ready files for Acrobat by converting them.

- Doug

[tphinsf]

On Jul 12, 8:12 pm, Doug Winger <justd...@socal.rr.com> wrote:
> In article

> <95ad2537-f563-4d7b-b150-14cfccc81...@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,

>
> drell...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I'm using Adobe Acrobat CS3.
>
> > Is there some way to "distill" multiple eps files in this?
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Elliot
>
> Yes. In fact, it's called 'Acrobat Distiller' :) The process is: set
> distiller to output to taste, "distill" files to pdf, and then use
> Acrobat itself to build/edit the final document. Distiller's job is to
> ready files for Acrobat by converting them.
>
> - Doug

Robert really has the best solution -- use InDesign to layout the 250
page document (use can download a free 30-day trial from the Adobe
website--fully functioning). You can even automate the layout using
basic scripting. InDesign will let you add any additional "long
document" features -- table of contents, pagination, etc. Then just
Export as a PDF from InDesign.

If you own "the full version of CS2" (I'll assume that's Design
Premium) then you have both InDesign and Acrobat Pro. Your issue with
opening Acrobat just makes no sense.
Alternatively, you can easily create the correctly sized individual
PDFs in Illustrator using the Save As command. But you'll still need
Acrobat to create the compiled, 250 page PDF. Lastest version makes it
very easy, there's a "Create PDF from multiple files" command that
has a drag/drop interface to build a single PDF from multiple
individual PDF files. Again, a fully-functioning 30-day trial is free
on the Adobe website.