I can't believe I am having trouble with this :|

[dugweb]

Okay, I'm pretty darn comfortable with using illustrator but I cannot figure out how the heck to make a 2 (or more) page PDF file!!

I know you are supposed to use tiling but I can't get that figured out. The help file is absolutely worthless. It pretty much defines what tiling is, but no where does it explain how it is accomplished (except for one way that was explaing it to me, but it was taking me through the print menu which is deffinatly not what I want... I just want to SAVE a the pdf)

is there anyone here that can explain to me how this might be accomplished.

illustrator.jpg

that's my resume', and I want it in .pdf format... What you see is exactly where I'm stuck. :| err, this is frustrating, such a stupid problem 😛

 

[episodic]

http://experts.about.com/q/Adobe-Illustrator-1027/PDF-file-Illustrator.htm

 

[KeithP]

The explanation in the help file about using the print menu is correct. You just don't print the file, instead you click the "done" button in the bottom right hand corner of the print dialog box once you adjust the settings as follows: (First, set your page size to 8.5x22 under document setup)

From the help file...(type in italics are my comments)

To create a multiple-page Adobe PDF file
1) Choose File > Print, and set the media size to the size you want the PDF pages to be.
2) Select "Setup" on the left side of the Print dialog box. Set the following 2 options, and
then click Done:
- For "Crop Artwork To", select Artboard.
- For "Tiling", select Tile Full Pages or Tile Imageable Areas.

When you select "print" there are actually 2 places where it says "setup" in the print dialog box.
One is in the bottom left corner next to "save preset", ignore this one. The one you want is smaller and among a list of other options. It falls between "General" and "Marks and Bleeds" in the upper left of the print dialog box.

3) Set up the artboard so that it is big enough to display all pages, and choose View > Show Page
Tiling. (See About page tiling.) 8.5x22 as I mentioned
4) Lay out the artwork for each page within the page tiling boundaries on the artboard.
5) Save the file in Adobe PDF format. (See To create an Adobe PDF file.)
6) In the Save Adobe PDF dialog box, select Save Multi-Page PDF From Page Tiles.
7) Set additional PDF options, and click Save PDF.

That should do it. If this still isn't clear email your .ai file to me and I will set it up and send it back. I assume this is an Illustrator CS2 (ver 12) file correct?

-KeithP
(email is in my profile)