Geek help needed

[watervole]

Does anyone out there have both Publisher 2003 and Adobe pdf creation software? (Not one of the free pdf creation programs, our problem requires custom page sizes)

We've a very specific problem for my mother-in-law's book and Richard's been struggling for several days to do it with the free software and it can't be done.  The professional version costs around £300 and that's simply too high a cost for something we're only going to use once.

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[jophan.livejournal.com]

Publisher 2007, but if all I need to do is open the document, that shouldn't matter.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Have you got the pdf reader as well? Publisher 2007 should be fine.

[jophan.livejournal.com]

I have the full version of Acrobat 8.0. I guess I have Acrobat Reader as well, or else I can download it, but I thought it was the full version that includes Acrobat Distiller you needed?

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

You might want to try Foxit Software's PDF creator. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/creator/

I've used it in the past and found it superior in every way to Adobe's own PDF creator software. It is about one tenth of the price of Adobe too. It is also faster and creates smaller PDF files while retaining all the functionality that one might want from it.

What it doesn't do it edit existing PDFs. For that you'll need their PDF editor. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/editor/

[waveney.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I will give it a try - the killer question is does it work with custom page sizes, none of the "free" ones I tries handled custom page sizes.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I haven't used custome page sizes myself and I don't have a copy installed at work to check, but on the features page (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/creator/features.htm) for it they say Print like a real printer with custom paper size support. So that sounds pretty definative to me.

Incidentally, when trying to use custom page sizes with Adobe I got very unsatisfactory results. What happened was that the margins were changed but the paper size remained the same. The only way I could then print the document from the PDF was to manually change the paper size to fit. However, I don't know whether that problem was due to Adobe or the source application.

[johannes-d.livejournal.com]

have created custom size pdfs with publisher 2005 and cutepdf. The important thing is to set the size both in publisher and also in cutepdf. The paper size is set in advanced options as a postscript custom size