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Originally Posted by st_albert
I certainly agree that Word is not what you want to use to produce a "camera ready" pdf for a POD printer. If you're an apple person, use Quark. If you're a Windows person, (you have my sympathies - I am one also in this situation) use InDesign. If you're a linux / unix person, you're SOL basically, but you can try scribus-ng.
That said, though I don't use Word except under duress, I have been told that there is no problem producing, for example, a pdf scaled to 6"x9" screen size, if you set those dimensions in the word doc before you hit the "print to pdf" button. The user that tells me this has Adobe Acrobat (full version, not just the reader) installed, so YMMV.
However I do know from personal experience that LibreOffice, out-of-the-box install, will produce a pdf that is properly scaled to whatever dimensions you set for the page.
Depending on where you fit on Hitch's scale of needs, you may well be able to find a solution that doesn't require boatloads of money.
All the best,
Albert
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I should say, any reasonably determined MS Windows user should be able to produce a camera-ready (man, am I dating myself, or WHAT?) PDF using MS Publisher. If you've ever used INDD or ye olden Pagemaker, it's fairly intuitive. Take a few hours, take a few toots, and you're off and running. Works mucho better than Word. And it's a crapload less money, if you don't already have it in Office Pro, than INDD. (Or you can use INDD on the cloud, but, crappity, the learning curve for a new person is pretty steep.)
Yes: if you import a Word file to Acrobat Pro, you can make a 6x9, but seriously, Word does have an actual bug that prevents it from creating a properly-sized PDF file for anything that isn't 8.5" x 11". Not making that up.
Of course, we still don't know what type of PDF he wants. We could be barking up a non-existent tree, Albert. ;-)
Hitch