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• Posted Dec. 12, 2012, 8:53 a.m. - 11 years, 10 months ago

Getting Rid of Extra Pages after Exporting Document to PDF

A friend had a project to create some posters for a musical event.  Production was going smooth and after all approvals on the artwork and form were signed off, the design was exported to a PDF file and taken out for printing.

 

 

He took the PDF file on a memory stick, plugged it into a self-serve machine at a popular printer service store and started printing 300 copies.  He noticed that pages were blank.  A careful examination of the PDF showed the poster followed by 148 blank pages.  If he didn’t catch this he would have had to pay for nearly 45,000 pages – in color!

The big problem was the posters had to start printing that day and bundled for distribution.  I received the call at noon asking for help and an hour later my unnamed friend was knocking on my door with his laptop and the production software.

I opted to the immediate fix by deleting the blank pages.  This was easy with Infix.

I went to page 2 and clicked on Document on the tool bar.  I selected Pages from the dropdown menu and then clicked on Delete.

 

 

A Delete Pages window opened up.

I clicked on the Pages: radio button and entered 2 and 149 in the boxes. I clicked OK and now there was only the desired poster.  I saved the file and my friend was happy.

 

 

He went to the printer and had his posters the following morning ready for distribution.  I believe he will be buying Infix soon.

Now we have to find the cause of the extra pages.

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