Creating PDFs

[DigitalChick]

Hi! I used to create pdfs using Adobe Acrobat Distiller. Now it's so much easier just to create the pdf directly from Quark. But I have a question. Using Distiller, I could create a page that contained 6 pages from the document (does that make sense?)... or 2 pages or 9 pages... anyway, it gave me choices on how many pages from the document to show on each pdf page. Is there a way to choose this option from Quark? Or do I need to keep using Distiller for this purpose?
Thanks.

Julie

 

[dougal77]

You can do that in theory by choosing file > print > printer... and it's under the Layouy option in the drop-down menu. You can select save to file > pdf having chosen Adobe PDF as the printer if you've got that set up.

It's supposed to print direct to a PDF but in my experience it doesn't work all the time (not sure what it depends on). So if it doesn't work for you, you might have to create a postscript file for distilling after all. Good luck.

 

[dougal77]

That's Layout, not Layouy, obviously.