Re: PDF automation
Re: PDF automation
- Subject: Re: PDF automation
- From: JJ <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:27:00 +0200
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Message: 2
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:05:34 -0500
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To: email@hidden
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From: Leonard Rosenthol <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: PDF automation
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Cc: email@hidden
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At 10:58 AM -0800 3/26/01, email@hidden wrote:
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> I want to automate PDF production. One of the steps is to send the job to a
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> virtual post script printer which uses the Adobe virtual printer driver that
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> came with distiller.
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That will certainly work, however
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>> The relevant file is the "PSPrinter Pref" which has a "Save to file
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>> defaults" item in the "Sfdf" resource. The values starting at 000008 are,
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Let me HIGHLY recommend that you use the Apple Laserwriter
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driver instead and use it's ability to print to PDF (which is really
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print to PS and then feed the PS to Distiller). That way you can
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avoid all this mess and just save a Desktop Printer with all
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appropriate settings.
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Leonard
"Create Adobe PDF" plug-in works fine, too, and you can use your Distiller
settings without launching it. But it is a bit inconstancy.
Personally, I use LaserWriter, too, and a folder with an action folder
attached to it, that launches Distiller and processes the postscript.
JJ