Mac Forum / Applications / Word / February 2007

It's not a limit in the conversion. When there are certain types of
section breaks, Word sends the document as two print jobs. For instance,
a landscape section in the middle of a portrait document gets sent as
three print jobs--beginning, landscape, after landscape. Each print job
becomes a separate PDF.

You can see if you can eliminate your section breaks to get it down to a
single print job--OR, you can just google for a utility, such as Combine
PDFs, and stitch the several PDFs together easily.

I use this one:
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/CombinePDFs.shtml

Someone else here recommends PDF Lab.

There is no known upper limit on the number of pages that will
successfully convert to PDF. I routinely PDF 500+ page documents.

What you have encountered is a Word/Mac OS X misfeature that starts new
print jobs whenever a section change in Word changes margins or page
orientation. This is quite famous, as a pass through Google Groups will
confirm.

You could attempt to remove whatever differences in your document cause
the print job breaks, but for most practical purposes it is simpler to
join the fragments up with a tool such as PDFLab. Versiontracker.com
will show you where to get it.

thanks so much for the suggestions.  I just want it solved.. will try both
suggestions.
HOORAY!!!!

I have had some 40+ pages in Word that i convert to pdf using the print
optin.  But i find that with the longer documents, the conversion to pdf
ends up with 2 or 3 or even 4 pdf documents.  Ideally i want one.  What is
the limit in the conversion?  Are there items in word documents that make
this impossilbe?  I Have table of contents, boxes, text boxes..charts..etc.

Thanks for your help.