Q5 on mac outputing PDF's

[stareye]

Dose anybody no how to get Q5 to output single page PDF's from a multi page doc, without having to tell it to via the print box?

Cheers in advance

 

[MarcusStringer]

Why would you want to do that?
Isn't that what the print box is all about?

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[stareye]

Printer requires single page pdf's and on a 100 page document its a tedious repitition to go via the print box for every page, the script that comes with Q5 dosnt work so im looking for another way to output single page pdf.

Ideas please

 

[MarcusStringer]

Try going to

http://www.pdfstore.com/category.asp?CtgID=5

and get your hands on PDFSlit, PDFMerge this will take care of what you want to do.
I find it odd that the printer would ask for that...

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[stareye]

Standard practice for most printers since they got rid of there pre press divisions

 

[jimoblak]

I can't offer any further advice beyond suggesting that you consider another printer: you should not be required to work for a service provider. A reputable printer will have proper imposition software and/or the utilities that Marcus suggested.

Making individual PDFs is an inefficient means to transport your design. Each PDF will require its own set of embedded fonts - making the file size unnecessarily large.

- - picklefish - -
Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[stareye]

Cheers Marcus & Jimoblak for the advice

 

[denice]

Save the page as an EPS then convert it to a PDF via Photoshop or Photo editing software. Its a work around, but it works

Denice
Mac OSX, Running Classic for Quark 4.1. System G4.

 

[MarcusStringer]

Denice,
That's a long workaround...
Stareye might as well use the print menu as he/she suggested to begin with, (which he/she didn't want to do because it would take so long).

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au