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Subject:Re: PDF a "book" of Word files From:Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:58:47 -0700 (PDT)
> However, I'm outta here in a week
:-(
> so I've been working on converting
> all my FM stuff to Word
=:-O
> using Mif2Go because nobody in my group is FM savvy.
:-P
> By leaving them a set
> in Word, they can do maintenance until they get up
> to speed in FM.
Fair enough.
> When I told him that he couldn't, he was not
> pleased...not directed at me
> because he knew that I gave him more working in FM
> than I could have in
> Word, just not pleased in general.
Can you blame him? (rhetorical)
> Did I lie? is there a way of taking 300 or more
> individual Word files (and
> keep them individual) and generate a single PDF,
> with continuous pagination,
> TOC, and bookmarks?
You can *kind of* by creating individual PS files and
running a batch, saving each new PDF into the
previous. Messy though. And then there's Word's Master
Thingamajig, but I knly know of one spunky Aussie
who's gotten it to work OK, after VBing it to death.
> Understand, this will be maintained by one of the
> "lucky" developers until
> they can figure out how/if/when to replace me.
Wouldn't a 8 hour crash course in FM be easier?
> Please don't include Master document as a suggestion
> :-)
Too late. :-))
=====
Goober Writer
(because life is too short to be inept)
"As soon as you hear the phrase "studies show",
immediately put a hand on your wallet and cover your groin."
-- Geoff Hart
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