printing ledger size

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Does your printer support tabloid/ledger size paper? If it does, you should be able to choose the size from the Page Setup menu or the print dialog as long as you have your printer selected. If "Any Printer" is selected, you wouldn't have the option.

cindy,

What happens? Is your 11X17 printer installed? Have you selected this printer when you choose to print?

Jerry

Pages doesn't split document onto smaller papers. You need to have the same size of the paper as you have set it in the Page set up.
BUT
You could try to use additional application that split it for you like Tiler. There are others but I can't remember their names

Hi Fruhulda

ledger size is 11 x 17 ".
It's greater than the printed pages (8.5 x 11")

My guess is that the document is built as 8.5 x 11".
If I am right, the OP must redefine the format thru Page Setup.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France.) mercredi 26 août 2009 18:26:56

Yes, Yvan, I know Ledger size is larger than 8,5x11. The OP has told us that she has made a Ledger sized document. Too large for the paper she is using, right! If so she need to split the document to fit on several smaller papers. Tiler can do that for her.

If Cindy is wrong and have created a document of 8,5x11 size than it isn't 11x17 size.

Cindy look in the Inspector document tab (first one) and see which size it is.

I don't understand like you.

When Jerrold asked:


What happens? Is your 11X17 printer installed? Have you selected this printer when you choose to print?

Cindy responded:
I have it set up for ledger size and I have the correct printer selected. It only prints on 8-1/2 x 11 paper and won't print all the pages.

I understood that only half of the ledger paper sheet is printed
but I may be wrong.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France.) mercredi 26 août 2009 18:38:14

We will sit here and wait for Cindy to turn up and tell the answer. 🙂 🙂 Two happy faces from Europe!

Alas, it's too often the case.
And sometimes, we never get the needed details 😟

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France.) mercredi 26 août 2009 19:06:09

Cindy,

When you say your printer only prints on 8-1/2 x 11 paper, are you saying that it uses the wrong paper tray, or what? If you Print to PDF, do all of the pages show up in the PDF?

Jerry

I didn't realize you were wanting to make a newsletter on folded tabloid paper. I thought you couldn't choose tabloid as a paper size in the print dialog.

Booklets is something I've done often. Use Cocoa Booklet to create a booklet with any number of pages (best in a multiple of 4).

For a folded letter-size booklet start with your Pages document in Legal size & larger than normal font size. Export the Pages document to a PDF & then drag the PDF to the icon of Cocoa Booklet. It will create a new PDF in booklet form.

For a folded tabloid-size booklet create your Pages document in Letter-size as normal & then Export the Pages document to a PDF. Launch Cocoa Booklet & open its Preferences. In Paper Size set the Paper Format to “Personnalisé” with the Width 17 x Height 11 (measuring unit is set in a drop-down menu at the lower left of this preference window. Leave the default margins. In the Destination preference, select Yes for Add a suffix? to avoid overwriting your original PDF & click Save. The choices in the Options preferences are all left unchecked for your tabloid-size document. Then drag the PDF to the icon of Cocoa Booklet to will create a new PDF in booklet form.

Hi Peggy

If I understand well the OP built a document with 3 ledger pages.
On ledger page 1 she has the pages 1 & 6 of the newsletter
On ledger page 2 she has the pages 5 & 2 of the newsletter
On ledger page 3 she has the pages 3 & 4 of the newsletter.

With its ledger capable printer, she get only one 8,5 x 11 page's content on each ledger paper sheet.

My guess is that she get a memory or a hardDisk space shortage.
When we print, the couple application + driver build a bitmap of the document stored on the hardisk then sent to the printer.
If there is not sufficient space, she will get a 'buffer overflow' and this may explain what she get.
When we print to PDF, it's not the same scheme which is used so this may explain why the final result is different.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 27 août 2009 18:50:47

Hi Peggy,
Cocoa Booklet is well known.
Do you know:
the service CreateBooklet from:
http://web.mac.com/vogelbusch/Site/Programs/Programs.html

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 27 août 2009 19:06:12

I tried it a couple of times. It just didn't work as easily for me as CocoaBooklet.

I'm not really sure at all what the OP is saying/asking any more. Hopefully, she'll be back with a clearer explanation.