Gradient_Phil Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 Greetings, I have a pdf file that has each page formatted as a two page spread (except for the cover and end page which are single pages). Converting this pdf via acrobat pro 8.1 is really tedious and time consuming. I have opened the pdf in A_Publisher to convert each two page spread into a single page spread - but can't figure out if this can be done? A_publisher also sees the two page spread as one page, but that two page spread needs to be split (or cropped). Can't seem to find a "split page" option. In the document setup panel, the "facing" checkbox is already unchecked when the file loads. In the "Spread Setup" panel, resetting the dimensions of the spread to a single page centers the new page down the middle - so you get half of each page instead of either the left-hand side or the right-hand side. One thing A-Publisher does do is see each page as a single entity - so if I click on either the LH page or RH page I get a blue bounding box around each individual page. However, the only way I've managed to make this work is by creating a "new" single page document and cutting and pasting each individual page from the original file into the new document. This is also very tedious and time consuming. Is there better way?? I have zero experience with publisher. Quote Windows 10 Pro (Desktop). Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.9.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 From the menu, File > Document Setup..., then on the Layout tab, uncheck Facing Pages should have done it. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
000 Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 I would create an empty document with a sufficient amount of 2-page-spreads and then place the PDF pages one-by-one on the spreads (one PDF page would cover two pages in the new document, covering the spine). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradient_Phil Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 9 hours ago, walt.farrell said: From the menu, File > Document Setup..., then on the Layout tab, uncheck Facing Pages should have done it. Hey Walt, The "Facing" pages check box was already unchecked when the file loads. So I couldn't uncheck it! Quote Windows 10 Pro (Desktop). Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.9.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradient_Phil Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 8 hours ago, Jens Krebs said: I would create an empty document with a sufficient amount of 2-page-spreads and then place the PDF pages one-by-one on the spreads (one PDF page would cover two pages in the new document, covering the spine). Hey Jens Krebs This is essentially how I achieved it. I created a new document with only single pages and cut and pasted each page from the original document to the new one. It was time consuming and tedious though...and I was hoping there was a better way. Having a page split option would be good - something that cuts the page where you specify...or split it at centre. The only weird thing about the outputted PDF was that the text in the resultant file looked like is was "bold" when opened in Acrobat Reader DC. I'm thinking perhaps the text was rasterised - even though I had rasterise nothing selected. It would appear the original PDF has been modded somehow. I'm not an expert on these things, so am not sure what has been done. Usually if I open a PDF in Acrobat Pro (8.1) I can tweak the text - but it this case I couldn't - like the file has be optimised or something. Even stranger, is that when the outputted file is opened in Acrobat Pro (8.1) - the text looks like it should do. And...the text also looks fine in APub. Is there anyway to tell if the text has been rasterised? Anyway to force it not to rasterise anything? Thanks for the help. Quote Windows 10 Pro (Desktop). Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.9.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
000 Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 The "bold" look is an Acrobat display problem -- if you zoom in, it should look fine. I usually double-check in Preview. Easiest way to check is, to directly open the PDF in Publisher or Designer -- if the text is selectable, it's vector. If it's an image, it has been rasterised. You didn't need to slice and split the pages -- when you set the Publisher file to "facing pages", you can place double pages on the spreads and then simply select "export pages" in the PDF export settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradient_Phil Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 7 hours ago, Jens Krebs said: The "bold" look is an Acrobat display problem -- if you zoom in, it should look fine. I usually double-check in Preview What is strange is that the final document looks perfect in Acrobat Pro 8.1 - but it looks bold using Acrobat Reader DC. Don't figure! I was using the Preview mode of Publisher...and it looks fine there as well. Quote Windows 10 Pro (Desktop). Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.9.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
000 Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Hi Phil, sorry, should have clarified that ... I was talking about opening the PDF with the Preview App on macOS. The other thing ... don't worry to much about Acrobat, as said, zoom in and it should display fine. Acrobat isn't perfect and versions vary. :o) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradient_Phil Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 23 hours ago, Jens Krebs said: Hi Phil, sorry, should have clarified that ... I was talking about opening the PDF with the Preview App on macOS. The other thing ... don't worry to much about Acrobat, as said, zoom in and it should display fine. Acrobat isn't perfect and versions vary. :o) Hey Jens, Yeah...acrobat is crap! I'm on Windows so the preview doesn't apply Appreciate the help. 000 1 Quote Windows 10 Pro (Desktop). Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.9.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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