Re: PLEASE HELP WITH MARGINS--Daiya's "Booklets in MacWord" page with imposition software

I almost have it fixed (although in a round-about way). My only problem now
is that when I save as PDF, it processes the pages and when it gets to
section 4 of the document, it says that a footer is outside of the printable
area. The footer of this section and all associated margins are EXACTLY the
same as for the previous 3 sections, so I'm not sure why it's finding an
error there.

Regardless, I tell it to continue in saving as PDF--however, for whatever
reason, possibly due to the previous footer issue, I end up with 2 PDF
documents. The first one has almost the entire document--p. 1-38. The 2nd
PDF is given the same file name with a 2 on the end--this contains only the
last page of the document--p. 39.

Why is Word splitting it into 2 PDF files when it gets to the page that
contains the footer in question? (even though it says the footer is outside
the printable page, I'm POSITIVE that it's the same as the rest of the
document.)


On 3/10/07 10:30 PM, in article C218E20E.6DCD%teacher24_70@xxxxxxxxx,
"Michelle" <teacher24_70@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've been digging a little further and have discovered a couple of other
peculiar things. Within Word, if I click the "print preview" button in the
toolbar, the document previews as it should--margins look exactly as they
should. When I go to the print window and see the document in the "quick
preview" window with the print window, the margins are too big. Something
is happening once we go from the document to the print window.

Any ideas?


On 3/10/07 9:58 PM, in article C218DA9B.6DC9%teacher24_70@xxxxxxxxx,
"Michelle" <teacher24_70@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think that I've discovered that the problem doesn't even seem to lie in
the imposition software. When I "save as PDF" from Word and then view that,
the margins are huge. So it's actually in the save as PDF that it changes.
In Word, the page is 5.5 x 8, but when I view document properties in the
PDF (through Adobe Reader), it says that the document is 8.5 x 11. So it's
taking my smaller page and placing it on a larger PDF page, thus when the
imposition software does its job, the margins are already too large.

Does this make sense? Is there a way around this? How do I get the PDF
saving to use the original page size?


On 3/2/07 9:53 AM, in article
1172850814.480596.50380@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Michelle"
<teacher24_70@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Actually, my first version was on an 8.5 x 11 page (before I saw your
suggestion of 5.5) and I'm not seeing any difference in the margins.
It looks almost identical.

On Mar 2, 9:32 am, Daiya Mitchell <daiyaNOS...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi Michelle,

It's entirely possible that you are doing nothing wrong, but that Cocoa
Booklet has changed since I wrote that article on a few versions back
(maybe 1.5 years ago?)

If you are in a hurry, just run CocoaBooklet on a regular 8.5x11 page,
and let it shrink the text and get slightly big margins. MAKE A COPY and
change the margins on that.

If you have time, I should have a chance to update my CocoaBooklet,
probably later today, play around with it, and see what can be done. Or
someone else may have a key suggestion in the meantime.

Daiya



Michelle wrote:
I'm trying to help a friend make a booklet in Microsoft Office 2004. I've
been following Daiya's help page
http://daiya.mvps.org/booklets.htm#BookletPrograms
and am using the CocoaBooklet freeware (version 2.0.4). I followed her
advice and used a custom paper size (5.5 x 8.5) so that it wouldn't be
shrunk by CocoaBooklet when doing the imposition. This is supposed to
help
reduce the large top and bottom margins created because of the proportion
difference.

I am still getting huge top and bottom margins and even quite large left,
right, and middle (in the fold) margins. I have even set my CocoaBooklet
margins to 0 and my Word margins to .35 and I'm still getting the huge
margins. It IS shrinking the font and text.

Any idea what I could be doing wrong? Please help me, I've tried
EVERYTHING
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