To create PDF's from PageMaker 6.5, create your files the same way you would if you were making electronic slides (2x3 proportion). Then follow the step by step instructions below.

1. Go to the File menu and scroll down to Export, select Adobe PDF....

2.After selecting Adobe PDF... you will see this dialog box. Confirm the following settings:

3. Select the Edit Button. After selecting Edit you will see the dialog box. Make sure your settngs match this dialog box and then select OK.

4. Select Export... and Acrobat Distiller will begin creating your PDF file.

BOOK FEATURE IN PAGEMAKER 6.5

Book is a way to automate the making of PDF files from PageMaker 6.5. This is useful for multi-page PDF documents from mutiple PageMaker documents. The only catch with book is that all of your files must have the same orientation, (i.e. horizontal or vertical). Below are step-by-step instructions on how to use the Book feature.

1. To use the Book feature select it from the Utilites menu.

2. Insert your Pagemaker files into the Booklist. When they are all in the booklist select the OK button.

3. After clicking OK, select File -> Export -> Adobe PDF..., the same as you do for a single page PDF. You will see the dialog box below. If your pages are all the same page size, use the same settings as you would for a single page PDF document. If your pages are different sizes, you must set Paper size(s) to Apply settings of each publication:

4. The next step in the process for using the book feature is the same as making any other PDF file from PageMaker 6.5. Go to the File menu, select Export and choose Adobe PDF.... Distiller will then make your PDF presentation with all of the PageMaker files you selected under book into one PDF presentation containing all the files. With this method, there is no need to create individual PDF files and then import them into a group PDF presentation.

Once you have your multi-page PDF document, you will need to go back to the Book dialog box and remove the pages that you included in your book. If you forget to do this, your PageMaker document will print out all of the other PageMaker documents when you try and print the one document.