[designbc]

I design a 76 page magazine. The printer wants me to supply every page on a separate PDF file. Is there any way to make the PDF creation a batch process? Now I have to send each page to print to file, wait until it finishes and then send the next page to print, but it takes forever. I'd love to be able to do that during the night.
Any help?

[teszeract]

A pretty problem. I dn't have a solution, unfortunately - but a piece of advice. Do one or two pages only, send that to your printer and let him check it out. You don't want to do all 76, and then find out that he would like crop marks, or higher or lower res, or something else after all your work.

I also suspect the solution may lie in Acrobat rather than Quark.

[EnVoy]

Here's how we do it:

Get a plug-in for Quark (r u using Quark?) called PageShot

Set up two watch folders, one for PageShot, one for Acrobat Distiller. PageShot will convert the entire Quark doc to individual .eps files, and automatically place them in the "in" folder of the Distiller watch folder. Distiller will automatically make .pdf's of the .eps files. All done while you go to lunch!

[mditzler]

Banta makes a set of free (for a single user) XTensions that may help you out. The XTensions are in a collection named Utility Bundle. The XT that you would want to use is called Page Printer. This XT will allow you to batch print a Quark document into separate postscript files that can each then be distilled to a single page pdf files via an Acrobat Distiller watched folder. It works great for multiple page Quark documents. There is also another XT from Banta named Batch Print that does basically the same thing on multiple Quark docs. I know the XTentions will work in Quark versions 3.32, 4, and 5. They can be download from here: http://publishingsolutions.banta-im....nloads-mac.htm

[gadster]

If you can't afford new software, com-opt-shift S > hit tab > (type) page number > hit enter. For numbers 1 thru 76 (won't take long). Save into a watched folder.

[designbc]

Thank you guys.

[Prepress Online]

There are extensions out there that will create a PS file for each page in your document. I use one at work. It works in Quark 4 and 5.
I have used it for creating PDFs for each page in a file.

Thats odd that your printer wants you to send your files in that way.
I work in prepress dept. for a commercial printer and I would rather have you send me your Quark file and all the support files and let us create the PDFs.

[godzookie2k]

you can also do it in acrobat as well, 'extract page to new document' or somethin like that. I don't have it in front of me.

[designbc]

Originally posted by Prepress Online:
There are extensions out there that will create a PS file for each page in your document. I use one at work. It works in Quark 4 and 5.
I have used it for creating PDFs for each page in a file.

Thats odd that your printer wants you to send your files in that way.
I work in prepress dept. for a commercial printer and I would rather have you send me your Quark file and all the support files and let us create the PDFs.

They charge A LOT extra for creating the PDFs

[Immortal K-Mart Employee]

Originally posted by Prepress Online:
There are extensions out there that will create a PS file for each page in your document. I use one at work. It works in Quark 4 and 5.
I have used it for creating PDFs for each page in a file.

Thats odd that your printer wants you to send your files in that way.
I work in prepress dept. for a commercial printer and I would rather have you send me your Quark file and all the support files and let us create the PDFs.

Not here, they want us to and we also want to send everything as a PDF as no worries about text moving around.

[godzookie2k]

ditto.