exporting in PDF

[THE SQUIRE]

Please excuse me I'm not a professional.
I'm trying to do a booklet for a charity when I export it to the members in PDF form the first and last page print as A4 size not what may require which is A5 size.
Help please

[PaulEC]

I'm assuming that you're using Publisher. Did you design it using "Facing Pages", so that when you export it as a PDF you see double page spreads (apart from the first and last pages)?

[THE SQUIRE]

I used Booklet form as i say it prints perfectly from me laptop and printer but not when I send it as a PDF

[h_d]

Hi @THE SQUIRE

My guess is that you have two different masters - one with an A4 Page Preset (as here):

 

and one with an A5 Page Preset, and that the first (Master A) has been applied to the front and back, and the second (Master B) has been applied to the inside pages.

But it's just a guess, and without seeing what you're seeing it's almost impossible to be certain. Could you upload the .afpub document? (Not the PDF.)

Cheers,

H

 

 

Edited September 10, 2020 by h_d
Text correction

[THE SQUIRE]

Than you for your help I'm a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to all this stuff and am learning as I go so can you tell me how to upload that file I no expert but my option of there tutorial's is pretty grim never been so board in my life looking at them

[Old Bruce]

10 minutes ago, THE SQUIRE said:

Than you for your help I'm a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to all this stuff and am learning as I go so can you tell me how to upload that file I no expert but my option of there tutorial's is pretty grim never been so board in my life looking at them

[THE SQUIRE]

thanks for your help it's much appreciated

 

SUMMONS_NOVEMBER_INCLUDING_LODGE_OF_SORROW_2020.afpub

[h_d]

Well my first supposition was wrong - the document has no masters, so there aren't different masters for the different pages.

Next guess - are you Printing to pdf or Exporting?

If I Print to PDF, all my pages are forced to A4 size (with the two-page spreads rotated 90º), giving me the version attached as 'pdf print'. In effect, the front and back pages are twice the size of the spread pages because the spreads have been squeezed down to fit an A4 sheet.

If I Export as opposed to Print, I get a pdf in which all the pages (front, back and halves of spreads) are the same size. I've attached this as 'pdf export'. 

To Export, go to the File menu, choose Export...  and select PDF from the options.

 

Cheers,

H

 

pdf export.pdf pdf_print.pdf

[Old Bruce]

On 9/10/2020 at 6:19 AM, THE SQUIRE said:

Please excuse me I'm not a professional.
I'm trying to do a booklet for a charity when I export it to the members in PDF form the first and last page print as A4 size not what may require which is A5 size.
Help please

 

1 hour ago, THE SQUIRE said:

thanks for your help it's much appreciated

 

SUMMONS_NOVEMBER_INCLUDING_LODGE_OF_SORROW_2020.afpub 3.36 MB · 2 downloads

You have set up your document with different sized pages. You should have set it up with Facing Pages so that all pages are A5 and you have two A5 pages for page 2+3, 4+5, etc. I think this would help with the 'booklet printing'

as it is now you have one A5 Portrait page followed by 5 A4 Landscape pages and a final A4 Portrait page. I will wager that this mix of paper sizes is causing all sorts of headaches for your printer driver.