RE: Visio --> PDF Weirdness: Solution

Subject: RE: Visio --> PDF Weirdness: Solution
From: "Sean Brierley" <sbri -at- haestad -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:12:52 -0400


To make custom page sizes, I'd try Start > Control Panel > Printers and
Faxes > File > Server Properties > Create New form > Name the form > Set
the paper size and margins > Save the form. It's a Windows thing,
methinks.

But that's just me. Am happy with Acrobat.

Cheers,

Sean

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Sean Brierley
Software Documentation Specialist
Haestad Methods
http://www.haestad.com
203-805-0572 (voice)
203-597-1488 (fax)



-----Original Message-----
From: Meg Halter [mailto:aiki4us -at- yahoo -dot- com]


Some background: Back in May, I asked Techwr-L for help in
converting an 8.5" x 14" inch Visio diagram to PDF. Acrobat
insisted on mashing everything to the right of inch 10 into a
1-inch-wide blob. Jennifer Maitland offered the successful
solution of using Word as an intermediate step. However, my next
drawing was 30" x 8". Again, in direct coversion from Visio,
Acrobat mashed inches 10 - 29 of my drawing into inches 10-11 on
the PDF. This time I couldn't use Word as an intermediate step
because it won't accept a drawing over 22" wide. Not amusing.

Jaws PDF Creator <http://www.jawspdf.com/pdf_creator/> by Global
Graphics turned out to do the trick. After some back and forth
with their very helpful tech support, in which they taught me
how to make custom page sizes, I have a lovely, 30" x 8" PDF.
Further, I now know how to modify ppd files for future projects.
I'm really tickled. And at US$100, it's a bargain.

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