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| From: Technical Writers List; for all Technical Communication issues
| [mailto:TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU]On Behalf Of Sella Rush
| Sent: Thursday, August 27, 1998 2:54 PM
| To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
| Subject: Acrobat question
|
|
| I haven't kept up with Acrobat lately, so I'd like to pass this
| query to the
| list.
|
| A colleague wants to know if the following is possible: To create a pdf
| file that allows the user to change the viewing format.
|
| Explanation: He wants a pdf file that is formated for viewing on-screen
| (without having to scroll up-down, left-right), but he also wants
| to be able
| to print out that same file in a standard page format. Get the point?
|
| I told him it would be a fairly simple matter to just generate
| two separate
| pdf files from the same content, but no--he wants a single file to do it
| all. (He is looking to improve on a process that uses two
| separate files.)
Your solution will work. His won't. There is no way to embed two different
page formats within a single PDF.
