Well, in those famous words, "Houston, we have a problem", as the Rowdie who does our club newsletter is on a plane to Spain for a 3 week stay. Yesterday before leaving our editor sent our 20-page newsletter link to the printer. He uses Dropbox and creates it in Mac's Pages. But, he normally converts it to a PDF in Dropbox for the Printer. He forgot. I have Pages software and can download his file from Dropbox; the Printer can not. Here's the problem. His file is 75MB in Pages. For me to convert it to a PDF I must first convert it to a Word document which increases it to 219MB. Converting to ZIP it is still 219MB. Converting it to Mac's reduced auto-prog takes it down to a mere 2MB and destroys the quality on the pages that the editor got from other sources.... so that's out. All the other methods are too large to upload or send via email. Comcast has a limit of 35MB, other emailers such as Goggle, Yahoo, etc. are worse 5MB and 10MB. Tomorrow I plan to try breaking down the newsletter to send it PDF "sections" under 35MB; assuming I can do that. But, I am open to ideas that are not too difficult.

 

Here you go: Make the March Issue the April Issue

 

If you can download it from Dropbox, have you also been given permissions to upload files to that dropbox folder?

If not, can you create your own Dropbox account, upload it to dropbox, grant the printer permissions to access it and have him download it from there (after you have converted to Word, for instance)?

 

Does this help?

http://i-work-in-pages.blogspot.com/...es-to-pdf.html

(disclaimer: I don't regularly work with Macs and am not familiar with Pages. Kgf might have more light to shed on this for you as I know he works extensively with a variety of OSs and apps.)

 

A bit dated, but here's something about converting to PDF from Pages.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread...art=0&tstart=0

Again, you will have to deal with the size issue when trying to get it to the printer, but creating your own dropbox account will deal with that. Possibly Google Drive (free) could do the job too.

Worst case scenario (depending on your deadline), buy an inexpensive flash drive, save it to that in the big format (PDF, Word doc, whatever) and drop the thing in the mail.

I use YouSendIt for big files, but the free version is limited to 50MB (and so that doesn't help you). I have a paid for account. But it's something I use a lot for work stuff so it makes sense for me to have it. Not so much for others, perhaps.

 

Wait a minute.... the printer has no method for you to get large files to him? I have a client who is a printer. This issue comes up a lot. The web guy set up an upload capability on their web site so clients can send big files by some means other than email. They also use YouSendIt.

Just checked... YouSendIt has a free 14 day trial of their business grade service. You could sign up for that and get the huge Word doc (or PDF or whatever format) over to the printer that way.

Good luck!

 

If you can get it on a flash drive or SD that can hold that data you could always use other methods. Your only obstacle is that damn data limit. You could also teather the pc your phone and use its network to do the transfer. Considering you might have a provider with 3g/4g and a decent data limit. I would just put the whole pdf on my phone and put it on a google drive/dropbox folder in pdf form and give him rights.

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I could be misunderstanding, but I believe the data limit the OP is referring to is the attachment size to an email.

No need to put it on a cellphone to upload it to google drive or a dropbox folder. He can do that directly from his computer.

 

Thanks RM, I have been celebrating my grandson's #9 birthday and gave up on the newsletter. Thanks for the suggestions. I've not heard back from the Printer on my 3-part approach. I'll give it a review tomorrow to see if I can even understand it......... maybe Smart Ass Jerry's answer is best - change the dates of the newsletter. Of course, there's a really big Spring Kick Off sports cars event for us British car owners that everyone in our club will miss.... but I'll give them SMJ's email address and they can ask him why they were a month late.

PS- Jerry, that was one option I had not thought of. Thanks.

 

Good luck Dave. Way out of my league! Hope some of the suggestions help. Happy Birthday to your grandson!