Re: FN-FORUM Help with postscript required

date posted 1st August 2002 19:00

Hi John
Think you will need distiller to convert postscript to PDF (well you do on
mac)... can you not export your pages as PDF? And the only way to view PDF
files is in Acrobat as far as I know too!
Zoe

> From: "John Brunsdon" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:40:55 +0100
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> Subject: FN-FORUM Help with postscript required
>
> Is there anyone out there who can advise on the following?
>
> 1) I use PageMaker 6.5, and normally supply either hard copy artwork or PM
> files on disk. However, a client has asked me to supply some material as a
> postscript file converted to PDF. I assume that this is because his printer
> uses a Mac.
>
> 2) To produce a postscript file, am I correct that I need to install a
> postscript driver on my pc. If so, which one? Will any driver do, or is
> there a generic ps driver I can use? Or do I ask the client to tell me which
> printer (and therefore which driver) he will be using)?
>
> 3) When I print to file, are there any special print settings required?
> Does the client advise me about these as well?
>
> 4) Once the file has been produced, do I need Adobe Acrobat to do the
> conversion to PDF? In the last few days, someone has told me of a program
> called PDF factory, available for free from www.fineprint.com. Would this be
> better than using Adobe Acrobat, or would I encounter problems?
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
> John
>
>
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