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Urgent question on PDF software
Any of you with software to conver to a pdf file - please can you tell me whether your software preserves the page size.
I am trying to get my manuscript finished for YWO and although I have set the page correctly, the software I downloaded and paid for(aarrgghhh) last night assumes A4, legal or letter paper and plonks a load of white round the edges. I have emailed to complain and asked for money back - it was the one on the Microsoft marketplace so I shall complain to Microsoft next.
Anyway I now need to find some that enables me to take the existing Word file and convert to PDF exactly as it is. I don't want to reset in another word processing package (which probably rules out the free stuff) - but I can't find on any of them any confirmation that they don't do what the one I have already bought does.
Help - please!!!!!!
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It's called Cutepdfwriter also avalable is Cutepdf Pro but that costs $49.95. I haven't used it but Cute products are ok
http://www.cutepdf.com/
You don't open an application - once you have created your document in Word or whatever - go to File/print and select CutePDF Writer as the printer and 'print' to that - it creates a pdf for you to save where you like. This can be printed or emailed as any other pdf doc.
Simple answer appears to be no. I think the reason is something to do with it producing the pdf as a 'print to file' method and most printers (unless fancy and expensive) only do A4/Letter. For that kind of flexibility you may have to spend out on something like the 'pro' version with lots more settings to fiddle with.
Sorry about that Mutley - further research required ...
https://createpdf.adobe.com/
might be worth looking at to find out if it can deal with your 6x9 ... but ya gotta pay!
Thank you everyone for your help - whispered and public.
Just been using this very software for an anthology I've been helping to compile. Converting to PDF using CutePDF DID maintain the page size (which was a US page size, therefore non-standard in all conceivable ways :) ), but I had to make sure the page size was correctly set in Word first.
When I print, of course, I'm printing onto A4 paper, so the pages appear with large white margins. But if the PDF is going to a print company with the resources to do digital printing on non-standard paper sizes, it should work fine.
Don't know if that's any help!
For what it's worth, I use a program from docuDesk for which I paid about ten pound. It seems to do everything I want (including converting PowerPoint presentations to pdf files) but here's a suggestion if you want to do it for free:
Register with Lulu, go through the motions of publishing and download the file that they convert to pdf for you. Sounds sneaky but I'm sure Lulu wouldn't mind - always a chance you might be hooked by their publishing programmes.