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About Michael Jahn
Expertise
Any and all questions related to creating and modifying PDF files for use in prepress and printing environments.
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After being a director of a prepress company, I was involved in development and was product manager to several prepress products related to PDF creation, production and submission to high end printing environments.
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PODi, IPA, Acrobat Users Group, (and was technical director of SGAUA - the Scitex Graphic Arts User Association - what we used to call the Floor Top Publishing systems back in the 80's!
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GATF World
http://www.gain.net/eweb/upload/pubcatalog_lo2.pdf
Dynamic Graphics magazine
http://www.dynamicgraphics.com/
Education/Credentials
BS in Biomedical communications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors
AGFA's PDF Evangelist - was honored to receive, of behalf of AGFA, an award for shipping the 1st PostScript 3 RIP (AGFA Taipan) from Adobe
Past/Present Clients
I have been a consultant to many developers. SGAUA (Scitex), 4-Sight, AGFA, Enfocus, Pantone, and currently, ELAN GMK
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You are here: Experts > Jobs/Careers > Technical Writing > Adobe Acrobat > breaking a pdf into sections
Expert: Michael Jahn
Date: 6/30/2007
Subject: breaking a pdf into sections
Question
I'm using Illustrator and Acrobat to create a graphic. The final product will be a 2 x 3 foot adhesive vinyl printout to be stuck on sandwich boards. I'd like to print out a draft onto several 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper then tape them all together to get an idea of the final product to check readability of font etc from a distance. How can I divide this 2x3 ft doc into 6 sections and print each one out? It's pretty spendy to take it into the printer for a draft. I'd rather just print sections and tape them together at home.
Answer
If I create a 2 ft (24 inch) x 3 ft (36 inch custom document in Illustrator, I can use then print this on a set 6 (six) 8.5 x 11 sheets that can then be taped together. In Illustrator, Select Print -- in the General Tab, be sure to click "do Not Scale" - in the Setup, use Tile full pages - you can even enter an overlap amount if you want to tape it together on a light table and cut so the pages are butt/flush to each other.
If this is confusing, call my cell and I will use Skype and Unyte to show you. 805 217 6741
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