Anyone else having trouble with PDF generation?
Using 5.0.4.47

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--- In PageStreamLinuxBeta@yahoogroups.com, AdmFubar <admfubar@...> wrote:
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> Anyone else having trouble with PDF generation?
> Using 5.0.4.47

PgS 5.0.5.1 generates PDFs fine. As I recall, I did have trouble with an earlier version of PgS and PDF output - it shifted the whole page to the left and down. I did a workaround of printing to a PostScript file, then running the file through pstopdf. That output was fine.

I tried exporting a PDF of a 200 page book directly from Pagestream, and it only put text and graphics on the first 5 or so pages. All the other pages in the resulting PDF were blank. As though it had run out of memory, or choked on something.

Then I installed CUPS, so I could print to a PDF. Printing the same file from Pagestream to the PDF printer driver worked perfectly (at least it seems that way, after a quick scan through). Everything came out as it should.

What the above means, I have no idea!

David

> I tried exporting a PDF of a 200 page book directly from Pagestream, and it only put text and graphics on the first 5 or so pages. All the other pages in the resulting PDF were blank. As though it had run out of memory, or choked on something.
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> Then I installed CUPS, so I could print to a PDF. Printing the same file from Pagestream to the PDF printer driver worked perfectly (at least it seems that way, after a quick scan through). Everything came out as it should.
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> What the above means, I have no idea!
>
> David
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Tests I just ran all properly generated large PDF files. If you can send
the document (and any external graphics) to me at
support@pagestream.org, I will be happy to try and reproduce your issue.

Deron

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Hi Deron,

I don't know what changed, or whether I've changed something, but I just
tried it again, to see whether it was reproducible, and the PDF it
generated seemed to be fine, opens well on Ubuntu and also on a Windows
machine using Acrobat 9.

So all good. Sorry about the false alarm.

A question though -- is it possible to tell Pagestream what size page to
use when exporting a PDF? My document has a page size of 8" tall x 5"
wide, but when I export the PDF it comes out on a letter-sized page. I
can't see where to change that setting.

Thanks,
David

On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 15:31 -0600, PageStream Support wrote:
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> Tests I just ran all properly generated large PDF files. If you can
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> the document (and any external graphics) to me at
> support@pagestream.org, I will be happy to try and reproduce your
> issue.
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> Deron
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> Grasshopper LLC Publishing -http://www.pagestream.org
> PageStream DTP for Amiga, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows
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OK, and cancel this question about page size -- I was looking at a PDF generated by CUPS (duh!) -- the PDF generated by Pagestream is on the correct sized page.

There's one more issue I have to investigate, and that's the separation of spot colours in PDFs generated by Pagestream.

David

--- In PageStreamLinuxBeta@yahoogroups.com, David Major <dminoz@...> wrote:

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> A question though -- is it possible to tell Pagestream what size page to
> use when exporting a PDF? My document has a page size of 8" tall x 5"
> wide, but when I export the PDF it comes out on a letter-sized page. I
> can't see where to change that setting.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>

With PageStream you can create a document with multiple page sizes. The
most common is simply a mix of landscape and portrait documents, but it
could be ledger and business card in a single document. The PDF output
should properly respect those varying page sizes.

What you can not do with PageStream's built in PDF generation is put a
page on a _different_ PDF "paper" size. To do that, you would need to
generate a postscript file by printing to disk and convert that to a PDF.

Deron

> OK, and cancel this question about page size -- I was looking at a PDF generated by CUPS (duh!) -- the PDF generated by Pagestream is on the correct sized page.
>
> There's one more issue I have to investigate, and that's the separation of spot colours in PDFs generated by Pagestream.
>
> David
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> --- In PageStreamLinuxBeta@yahoogroups.com, David Major <dminoz@...> wrote:
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>> A question though -- is it possible to tell Pagestream what size page to
>> use when exporting a PDF? My document has a page size of 8" tall x 5"
>> wide, but when I export the PDF it comes out on a letter-sized page. I
>> can't see where to change that setting.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>>

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PageStream DTP for Amiga, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows