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Pam,

From your statement about bookmarks, I am assuming you are creating a PDF. We have books that have pages of different sizes and this is how we handle it.

You do not have to print the entire book at once. First, in the book file, select only those documents that print on letter paper. Then select File > Print selected documents and select Adobe PDF as the printer and select Generate Acrobat Data.

Then do the same thing for the tabloid documents, changing the page size and orientation accordingly. You now have two PDFs, each with bookmarks.

Open the letter-sized PDF in Acrobat Standard or Professional, and insert the tabloid-sized PDF at the appropriate place. Acrobat will add the bookmarks from the tabloid-sized PDF to the letter-sized PDF, but at the bottom of the bookmarks pane. You can then drag and drop them into their correct positions. Thus, you do not need to recreate the bookmarks.

THen save the PDF. THe only thing missing in this approach is there are no links for cross-references between the two sets of PDFs.

If anyone has a better way to do what Pam wants, I would like to hear it.

Van

Hello Pamela,

Did you install and select the Adobe PDF (software) printer before printing to PDF?
If you still have your (hardware) printer selected, the paper handling is limited to what this printer (driver) allows. The Adobe PDF driver is much more flexible and adapts to the specified paper sizes and orientation.

Gustaaf

Van,Gustaaf,

That's the problem-- I LOSE the links/cross-refs!! I NEED the links/cross-refs. It's VERY time consuming to have to go back and relink everything. EVERY page in that chapter has multiple links to it from other chapters as well as from the Table of Contents page.

That's the way I have had to get this printed--I can print(to Adobe PDF printer) the one chapter by itself- sideways/landscape and then copy/insert it into the rest of the book--but again, I loose the much needed cross-refs/links.

It seems that it's a bug that the FrameMaker ignores it's own settings. Perhaps this could be added to the Print Setup as an enhancement to print the book/pages according to their document size/orientation.

Thanks,
Pam

Hello Pam,

I am using an older version of FrameMaker (7.0) than you, but I can print to postscript and distill a whole book with mixed portrait/landscape pages in one go. I assume it must be possible for you too.
When printing did you use a paper size that is large enough to accomodate all paper sizes used in the book? This is essential.
When printing select the Adobe PDF printer. In the printer set-up (properties tab) you can specify a custom paper size (your landscape pages with width 17, height 11) and give it a name. Select this paper name as paper size and orientation portrait when printing to a postscipt (.ps) file. Then Distill to PDF.
In the PDF the 'normal' pages will retain their original format. The larger landscape pages will be completely visible.

Gustaaf

Gustaaf,

Well, that seems to have worked!

Thanks!

Hello Mrs. Owens,

You can�t have a change of page size in the same FM document.
If you have material that is A4 and other that is A3, you need to put A4 into its own FM file. So you might end up with a book and three chapters like that:

a4
a3
a4.

If you make a PDF from this book, the A3 is in the PDF as A3, as it is in its own chapter. This way, you can have cross references a.s.o.

Of course, if your A3 stuff is used often, you need many book chapters and you have to make sure (of course) that it is "allowed" for A3 stuff to beginn on a new page. This is also necessary for everything that needs to be there (e.g A3 pages for a big graphics might have headings or description texts, that should be in the A3 and not in the A4 before or after.

Hope this helps,
Franz.
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