Angriest I've been in a while

[dvandom]

Trying to turn my PhD thesis into a PDF, so I don't have to worry as much about format drift. I successfully get AppleWorks 6.0 (already a non-supported format) to convert the ClarisWorks 3.0 source files without losing the formatting or making the images screw up (which happens when I try opening in Pages, Word or Open Office). I print the front matter and first chapter to PDF successfully, and then do the rest. But when I go to use Preview to merge the files (in 1999 when I started writing this, making a single 1M file was a Bad Idea), I find that past chapter 1, only the first page of each section was converted to PDF.

Nothing I've tried has gotten them to generate more than the first page of each file. I've tried reconverting chapter 1, and it worked just fine. I quit AppleWorks and restarted it. I rebooted my computer. NOTHING IS WORKING. And this on top of dealing with laggy connection to dvandom.com, and dealing with work stuff today and other technical problems. I'm about ready to kick a hole in the damn wall. My throat hurts from strangled screaming.

Comments

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

If you have PDF's of each chapter, I can merge them here at work.

If you can use the print range feature, and print each page as a single-page PDF, I can stitch them together for you.

[scavgraphics.livejournal.com]

The problem isn't the merging..it's the converting.
There's a manual merge function in macs that works, and I've written a simple click and go program for Dave that'll do it (though given I've failed at every other project I've tried for him, I'm sure that won't work, either).

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

http://publicobject.com/2007/04/pdf-printer-for-mac-os-x.html