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Old May 27th, 2007, 07:32 PM
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Can someone help me convert this excel file to pdf?

http://www.mitlearningcenter.com/hd/Class_schedule.xls

this is what i get if i use foxit pdf creator.

http://www.mitlearningcenter.com/hd/Class_schedule.pdf
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Old May 29th, 2007, 08:32 PM
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The problem is not with Foxit. Whoever set up the excel file put page breaks everywhere. You can see this if you go View->Page Break Preview. Whoever created the excel file set every cell to be on it's own page, that's why there are 282 pages on the excel file.

In Excel 2002, the file appears as just one page but in Excel 2007, the file is 282 pages. The person that created the Excel file will need to adjust it.
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Old May 29th, 2007, 11:21 PM
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is there anyways i can convert this successfully with foxit? if the creator is a virtual printer, then it should print the same information on a paper to a PDF document
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Old May 30th, 2007, 01:21 PM
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You'll need to make sure that the file is set up as just one page before you use the Foxit printer driver. Once the excel file is one page, Foxit Creator will convert it to one page in PDF format.
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Old May 30th, 2007, 03:13 PM
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if i do view->page break review, i see only one page, not 282 pages. i took a screenshot here.

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5...elphotodu0.jpg
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Old May 30th, 2007, 03:18 PM
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I'm guessing you are using a different version of excel than me. I will check on my other computer and try to create the PDF from the original excel file.
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Old May 30th, 2007, 03:31 PM
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if i see 282 page breaks, then if i print it, i should print 282 pages. however, i have no problem printing this file with a normal printer. btw, the excel i have here is 2002, and the one i have at home is xp
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Old May 30th, 2007, 04:34 PM
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The excel I have is 2007. I believe this is a similar problem: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/bbs/sho...ighlight=excel
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Old May 30th, 2007, 04:35 PM
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Do you have problems with other files or just this specific one?
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Old May 31st, 2007, 10:57 AM
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Do you have problems with other files or just this specific one?
all my files are like this one, because this schedule is the general format. I have been using adobe's free trial, because i don't need to convert that many of them. however, I want to switch to foxit.
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