when making PDF from Word, with multiplesections, can you get one pdf?

[StephenKay@adobeforums.com]

I have a Microsoft Word X (10.1.6) for Mac document. It has a large number of sections, where one page is landscape, the next is portrait, the next is landscape, the next is portrait, over and over. This is done with different sections in Word.

When I print to PDF, it wants to turn each section into a separate .pdf document. 20 or 30 pdfs.

Of course, I can combine them later, but it's a huge amount of work.

Anyway to just export the whole Word document at one time, into one pdf file? Any workarounds?

Thanks!

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

This is due to Microsoft's non-standard way of sending separate print
jobs for each section. It is not within Acrobat's ability to change this
behavior. It has been a problem since Acrobat 1.

Mike

[Claudio_González@adobeforums.com]

Replace section breaks by page breaks?

[StephenKay@adobeforums.com]

Thanks, I had a feeling it was a Microsoft problem.

Claudio, replacing with page breaks means that you cannot have some pages as landscape, and others as portrait orientation, unless there's a way to do that in word that I don't know about that doesn't require section breaks.

[pjonesCET@adobeforums.com]

Go to to [url]news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/[/url] . And they will say they have been doing it the same way since day one. That its either an Apple problem or most likely a Adobe. problem.

Regardless of whoes problem it it is, Since MS is going to budge (they are the 900 pound Gorilla) it would be smart of Adobe to come up with a cure, whether its Adob'e, Apple's, or Ms' Problem.

[MarkATS@adobeforums.com]

Print to a postscript file and see how many times you are prompted to save. If just once, then use Distiller to process the .ps file. If more than once, talk to Apple or Microsoft.

[pjonesCET@adobeforums.com]

The way it was explained on the Word newsgroup a section break is not just an aribtrary command "okay we are going to create a new section". Beside telling what section, it also has information related to fonts used, page, orientation. Supposedly there is so much information that some programs choke on all the information.

Did everyone know that that all the information about page breaks, sections breaks, fonts, Line endings page orintations and such are contained within the very last Paragraph mark in the document. If you have a Word document that is acting strange, open document then turn on Paragraph marks (paragrapgh mark menu). Go to very last Page, delete "that" Mark then save document under new name. Then reopen new document and reformat document and save again. This will cure about 90% of Word problems. Also another thing causing major problems is "Track Changes".