Half page missing on placed table 3

[mericat]

Hi. I have created a table in word which links into the Pagemaker document and seems to work fine. If I double click on it, I can edit in Word and save it and then it amends the Pagemaker file. (This is a brochure). However, I just exported it as a .pdf and it has cut a quarter of a page from one page with a table on it and half of another. I have jiggled it around and cannot get anywhere.

Please please please can you help me with some advice on this.

Thanks

Clare

Getting a thing about blues and purples

 

[Eggles]

Personally I think the best way to get a Word table into PM is to create a PDF of the table *before* placing it in PM. Sure, it is no longer editable by double clicking, but you'll save yourself the grief you are currently experiencing. If you need to edit the table, go back into Word, then re-PDF it before updating it in PM.

 

[mericat]

Thanks for this Eggles. Unfortunately, I'm now having trouble with this too.

I am going into word, saving the table as a postscript printer file and then taking it into distiller to make a .pdf. When I place the pdf into the PM document, it has lost most of it's fonts, lost colour and the print is very bad and almost intelligable.

Is there an easier way to do this?

Your help is much appreciated.

Clare

Getting a thing about blues and purples

 

[Eggles]

Right - it sounds as though the job options you have chosen for distilling are not appropriate - too high a compression therefore a decrease in PDF quality. You haven't mentioned which version of Distiller, but I will assume V5.

Reopen (or remake) the postscript file in Distiller, and in the settings, choose one of the defaults - which one you choose is detemined by how this PM file will be output. If being commercially printed offset, choose the 'Press' setting. If being printed in-house on a high quality laser, choose 'Print' setting. If output is to an inkjet, choose 'eBook'.

If you want to add CMYK colour to the table (if being commercially printed) open it in Ilustrator, add the colour and save it as an EPS before placing it in PM.

Post back if you are still having problems.

 

[mericat]

Thank you, this was very helpful. It was the settings being used by distiller. I distilled the word tables, turned them into .pdfs, placed them in the main document, which I then used distiller to turn into a .pdf again and hey presto! Mended document.

Much appreciated!!!

Getting a thing about blues and purples

 

[Eggles]

Fantastic!