How to print a large PDF file?

[Raven]

I sent a 17x24 PDF file (proof) to a customer. Neither they or I can figure out how to print it in sections and tile it together to make a complete proof at 100%. On her Windows machine, she can see the whole page. But it prints the middle portion only on one 8 1/2" x 11" sheet. Is there a way for her to print the 6 sections necessary to one complete hard copy?

Or do I somehow break it up into smaller proofs at this end? Not sure how to do that.

G4/1.25GHz. OS10.3.8. InDesign CS.

[AdobeAce]

Hi Raven,

I'm not sure about on Windows, but on a Mac –

Go to File > Print and, in the "Copies and Pages" section of the Print dialog, look under the "Page Scaling" section, and select "Tile Large Pages." You should get a Preview of the the document being tiled. If the feature is grayed out, you're out of luck. But you could alway open the document (one page at a time) in Illustrator and Tiled it from there as a workaround.

Hope this helps!

Ace

:D

[The Repro Kid]

Does that mean you can't Tile an output from InDesign?

(sorry -- way too lazy this morning to actually open InDesign and look at the print dialog)

[DCurry]

You can't tile from InDesign while exporting direct to PDF, but you could tile while printing to PostScript, then Distill.

[GuyB]

With IDCS, in the Print dialog, choose Setup in the left panel; in the lower part, in the Options, there is a tile feature wich you can fix in : auto, auto justified, manual. It works with my Canon i560, an inkjet.

[The Repro Kid]

thanks guyb. I was finding it hard to belive that InDesign could not tile an output.

Why is everyone so hung up on PDFs?

F pdfs!

[Paul C]

Why is everyone so hung up on PDFs?
Most of the places I send my ads ask for PDFs. I'm not hung up on them, although they have certainly made my life easier…

peace

[AdobeAce]

I sent a 17x24 PDF file (proof) to a customer. Neither they or I can figure out how to print it in sections and tile it together to make a complete proof at 100%. On her Windows machine, she can see the whole page. But it prints the middle portion only on one 8 1/2" x 11" sheet. Is there a way for her to print the 6 sections necessary to one complete hard copy?

Or do I somehow break it up into smaller proofs at this end? Not sure how to do that.

G4/1.25GHz. OS10.3.8. InDesign CS.

Hi Repro,

I think we were just answering the original question. I always prefer sending original InDesign layout, Links, and fonts if at all possible.

Ace

:D

[AdobeAce]

Hi Repro,

Love your new signature.

But I wonder how many of the younger artists here have any idea what it's about?

By the way, I also liked "Youngest Oldtimer in the Business."

Ace

:D

[GuyB]

Raven,

As I told, you can tile from ID but you can also tile a pdf from Acrobat Pro. In the Print dialog, there's a Page Scaling menu with the tile commands.

[The Repro Kid]

Acrobat Pro. Another pet peeve of mine. It would not be though, had my current gig chosen to purchase Pro when we upgraded from os9 to osX two years ago. But instead they bought the "Standard" version for our upgrade.

What's the difference? Not much. In order to create the Pro version you merely strip out the hot folders and the ability to tile an out put from the Standard version and, voilá! Instant Pro version. And now I get to leave distiller open on my desktop and drop files into it all day long to make the 20 to 60 PDFs I make each day. (the PDFs I make at my gig are for internal use only, by marketing, proofing, and various others who cannot and do not have access to the original files. All files are sent in their native .ai format to the printer where they can then do with them what they please, as long as it matches our printout -- btw -- love that system;)

Is is really necessary to have a free, Reader version, a pay for Standard Version that does just about everything you need, and a pay-lots-for Pro Version that gives you nothing more than what used to come as standard, Hot Folders and the ability to tile an output?

But what's not to like?

:confused:

I'm not much into signatures Ace, I'm sure I'll take it down soon. Just pulling some legs.

[GuyB]

Repro, you starded something again... ! ;)

[Paul C]

Are you trying to say you don't understand the many layers of marketing?

The bureaucracy of the sale?

The sledgehammer of the pitch?

:D

peace

[DCurry]

Hmmm, I've got Acrobat 6 Pro and 7 Pro, and they support tiling and Watched Folders (I use the Watched Folders all the time).

(edit begins here)
I re-read your post, Repro, and it seems that you mean that they strip out those features from the Pro version to get the Standard version. They also removed the Transparency Flattener Preview and Separations Preview to get to the Standard version.

[The Repro Kid]

Pretty Much. The pro version is new. The Previous standard version had Hot Folders and you could Tile. They Removed those features from the standard version in order to call what once was the Standard version, Pro.
:confused:

It's sort of like removing the pickles and lettuce from a Big Mac but still calling it a Big Mac, and then offering a "New, Improved" Big Mac Deluxe, that now contains: Pickles and Lettuce.
:confused:

[G4pj]

What size is the customer able to print? From the Acrobat dialog box, scale to fit page will do the job, if the details are fine enough to read at a smaller size.

Just remember that scale to fit page will even scale a business card sample, if selected. I get calls all the time, it's not big enough, turn off scaling, oh that worked great.

[Ekwoman]

Does your client have Acrobat Pro or just the free Reader? If they have reader and you have Pro, you can print without directly going into Distiller (as someone else suggested)...

In the InDesign print dialog, choose Acrobat PDF 7.0 (or the flavor of Acrobat that you have) as your printer, and choose the tiling option in the Setup panel of the dialog. Set the overlap, etc. then the page size (that they need to print on their end) and hit print. You will get a multipage PDF set to that size. All they will need to do is open in Reader and hit print.

Hope that helps!

Erica Gamet