Re: FN-FORUM Help with postscript required

date posted 1st August 2002 20:04

There's a free PDF maker on the front of Internet mag this month. It might
be an idea to get im to check with his printer that they are happy to print
from PDFs if you are going to print with your doc, some don't and you must
embed any fonts if you are using them
Carla

on 1/8/02 6:41 pm, Andrew Mottershead at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

> Have you looked at fineprint pdf factory - you can use this to print
> anything to a pdf file http://www.fineprint.com/
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of John Brunsdon
>> Sent: 01 August 2002 18:41
>> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> 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
>>
>>