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Saving as PDF in Print Shop - 12/29/2016 7:22:19 PM   
MrsStreet11

 

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Status: offline 		UGGGGGHHHH. I have been creating family calendars in Print Shop for 7 years. Each year I save the Calendar to PDF and bring it to a Printer in town who prints me a bunch of copies for my family. This year I got a new laptop, Windows 10, and got the newest Printshop version downloaded. Spent about 40 hours creating the calendar. CANNOT save as PDF. I have been communicating with Broderbund/Encore and they have no resolution. I have downloaded two other PDF creators. No luck. My tech guy at work can't make it work. The Printer I go to can't help. When I save as a PDF, it will only save the top of the calendar, not the bottom. Or it won't save at all and simply prints the calendar as a Printshop document. I have tried the whole thing with the old printshop CD on my old laptop. Still won't work. I don't want to waste all the work. Anyone know of a comparable program I can export this Printshop calendar to or any other solutions?
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RE: Saving as PDF in Print Shop - 12/30/2016 1:46:03 PM   
ellengard


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Status: offline 		I think the problem is the size of the project (multiple pages, many images), and the built-in PDF writer can't handle it.

It might work to use a stand-alone PDF writer that acts like a printer driver. There's a good (and free!) one at http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

Let me know if that works for you. The other alternate is to simplify your picture pages so that instead of multiple images on multiple layers, we replace it with a single jpg per page. There are a few steps to accomplish this, but we needn't go into it here unless you decide to do it. The Save As PDF should then work.

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RE: Saving as PDF in Print Shop - 12/30/2016 6:12:43 PM   
MrsStreet11

 

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Status: offline 		Hi, thanks for responding. I did download the CutePDF, to no avail. I think you are correct about the volume of images as a complicating factor as I've used images from Google, Facebook, Iphones, saved photos, etc. I have been saving three months to one file and it was suggested I try saving one month at a time. I tried that too - still won't save to PDF. I'm open to any ideas and not being a tech guru, I could be doing any of this wrong!

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RE: Saving as PDF in Print Shop - 12/30/2016 7:10:04 PM   
JasonC

 

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Status: offline 		You could try Microsoft Print To PDF. When you go to print, instead of your USB printer, select the Print to PDF option from the list of printers and see if it prints out. If you find errors happening when trying to print it out, you may be running into size issues, or simply there is too much information for the program to process.

A question: Are you running version 4.01 of The Print Shop? This update is VERY important as it improves stability and usability of the program, etc.

If you're encountering issues, you will need to submit a support ticket online at http://support.encore.com and choose the correct product. Unfortunately, the Tech Support department is closed until Tuesday of next year so you may have to wait a little bit for a reply.

*Edit I see you already contacted us but did not have a resolution, sorry for not reading that!

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RE: Saving as PDF in Print Shop - 12/30/2016 11:44:52 PM   
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ORIGINAL: MrsStreet11
...I think you are correct about the volume of images as a complicating factor as I've used images from Google, Facebook, Iphones, saved photos, etc.


OK, then, let's try the "use one jpg image per page" method. Please read the following relevant blog article.
http://printshop.com/blog/2014/10/1/simplify-your-calendar-project.aspx

While you are not starting from scratch, we can still incorporate this method with your existing calendar project.

First, make a backup copy of your file!

As a test to make sure the Save As PDF does work with smaller projects, open any ready-made project and Save As PDF. If it doesn't work, do not continue. Post back and we'll find a solution to getting a working PDF writer before you do the following:

Open your calendar project. Delete all the calendar pages (in the Project tab, "Remove Page"), leaving just the picture pages. Save as jpg, at best quality and highest resolution. This will create a series of jpgs, one for each page.

Close the project, but do not save the changes. Reopen the project. For each picture page, select all the elements and delete them. Add the corresponding jpg, resize and position it to fill the page. It now looks the same as it was, but now you've got only one image on the page.

For each picture page, replace all with the one corresponding jpg. Save this project with a new name. Now Save As PDF.

Preferably, print to the cute PDF writer or Microsoft PDF writer as they produce a PDF with sharper images.

< Message edited by ellengard -- 12/31/2016 12:13:22 AM >

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RE: Saving as PDF in Print Shop - 1/5/2017 8:11:20 PM   
MrsStreet11

 

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Status: offline 		Hello again. I tried cutting it back to nothing but one page (like January) and it won't save as PDF. It will save as a Broderbund file, but not PDF. It says it is saving as PDF, but when I try to open the doc, it takes me to the Internet and says it won't open. Or sometimes it won't show the PDF doc at all. I am at a loss. Any other ideas?

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RE: Saving as PDF in Print Shop - 1/6/2017 12:14:16 AM   
ellengard


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ORIGINAL: MrsStreet11
This year I got a new laptop, Windows 10... CANNOT save as PDF.

I tried cutting it back to nothing but one page (like January) and it won't save as PDF.


I found this support article, "Problem - Save as PDF does not function on Windows 10"
http://support.encore.com/technicalsupport/kb.aspx?kb_id=2035&product_id=3780
So don't use the Save As PDF function. It will not work on Win 10.

I think the solution to your problem requires two things.
  1. Simplifying the project as previously described.
  2. Printing the simplified project to a PDF printer.


< Message edited by lindarobin -- 1/6/2017 12:24:05 AM >

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RE: Saving as PDF in Print Shop - 1/6/2017 10:41:17 PM   
ellengard


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ORIGINAL: MrsStreet11
Each year I save the Calendar to PDF and bring it to a Printer in town who prints me a bunch of copies for my family.


Another option for getting professional calendar printing is to upload your Print Shop jpgs to an online printing service. The service I use lets me choose the starting month, so I could do Feb 2017 to Jan 2018 for no extra charge.

< Message edited by ellengard -- 1/6/2017 10:48:02 PM >

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