Can I set the default format for PPT --> printer or PDF?

[Guest]

I edit & present PPT - new files every day. I save them as PDFs, and print
them - all in the 6-up handout format. In PPT 2003, I could set my "normal"
print format to 6-up. (PDF was a "printer," so that worked for both.)

Now that I've moved to Vista and Office 2007, I can set the default print
format for one PPT file, but not for all PPT files. And when I save it as a
PDF, I must specify the 6-up format every time I save the file.

Surely there's a way to set the default format to 6-up handouts, so I don't
have to reset that every time.

Any suggestions?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I edit & present PPT - new files every day. I save them as PDFs, and print
them - all in the 6-up handout format. In PPT 2003, I could set my "normal"
print format to 6-up. (PDF was a "printer," so that worked for both.)

Now that I've moved to Vista and Office 2007, I can set the default print
format for one PPT file, but not for all PPT files. And when I save it as a
PDF, I must specify the 6-up format every time I save the file.

I'm not sure how you set the default to 6-ups for all PPT files in 2003; as far
as I can tell, it's strictly a per-presentation setting, as it still is in
2007.

But I'm assuming you're using the free Save As PDF addin now, rather than
printing to the Adobe PDF driver (or some other PDF making printer driver).

Save As PDF doesn't actually print, and doesn't seem to pick up the print
settings. I agree, it probably should though.

I think you'd need to upgrade to Acrobat 8 in order to use it with Vista, but
that might be the needed workaround.

 

[Guest]

I still have 2003 at home. I'll check there to try setting the printing
preferences for all PPT files, but I'm pretty sure that I could set it
globally.

And I just checked - on this new computer, I don't have Adobe
Distiller/PDFWriter, just the Reader 8.0. I'll find out if we have a license
for the writer, and see what options that provides.

Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I've learned a bit more. Save As PDF deliberately behaves differently from your
default print settings. In other words, it's a deliberate design decision, though
not one that makes sense to everyone.

If you install Acrobat, it'll include an Adobe PDF printer driver; printing to that
will behave pretty much like printing to any other printer and should respect your
default print settings.