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Trouble with Multiple Pdfs with one workbook

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  1. icsdata

    Member
    Joined: Sep '08
    Posts: 1

    Hello,
    I am having trouble when I print an Excel workbook. There are a total of 9 worksheets in the workbook with 90 "printable" pages. When I attempt to print using DoPDF, instead of printing a pdf with 90 pages, it attempts to split up the workbook into 6 different pdfs. This does not seem to correspond with the amount of worksheets or pages being printed. I think that this has something to do with the headers in the workbook, since when I create a new workbook in excel and attempt to recreate the problem, I cannot and one pdf is made with the merged multiple worksheets. I don't know if this is a problem with DoPDF since I have alternative pdf printers and all do the same thing. Is there any hope to fix this issue?

    Thanks in advance!

    Posted 4 years ago #

  2. Softland

    Key Master
    Joined: May '08
    Posts: 1,179

    Hi, actually this is an issue with the way Excel sends the pages for printing. Please see this article: Printing an entire Excel workbook to a single PDF file
    It's applicable to doPDF too.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  3. Courval

    Member
    Joined: Sep '08
    Posts: 1

    I wanted to add to the article as I followed it and it didn't really work.

    I wanted to print a workbook with 4 sheets all in one PDF. The first sheet was in Portrait format and the last 3 landscape. This is what I have done and it works:

    1. Set Print Area for each sheet
    2. Set Page Set up options for each sheet individually (in particular in this case orientation [portrait / landscape] and Fit to 1 page by 1 page [in my case]
    3. Follow the direction in the article linked to above and select Page Set up for all worksheets
    4. Set the Paper Size and Print Quality for all sheets

    The problem I was having is that one sheet had a print quality of 300 dpi while the others had 600 dpi. This was generating 2 different PDFs that would overwrite each other. The above solved my problem and resulted in 1 PDF with different page orientations.

    HTH

    Posted 4 years ago #

  4. Softland

    Key Master
    Joined: May '08
    Posts: 1,179

    Thanks for the addition Courval, will move this to Tutorials.

    Posted 4 years ago #

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