Re: automating PDF creation
Re: automating PDF creation
- Subject: Re: automating PDF creation
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:58:06 -0700
>>>>The only way that I have been successful in creating the PS files out of
Quark is by using Face Span to have the function of "click as user", otherwise I couldn't figure out how to get past the Print dialog boxes in Quark, any better suggestions on that?
I gave up trying to save postscript directly from Quark. It can be done but there are many uncontrolled variables, like which printer and what PPD or PDF files have been selected that can change the behavior.
Instead you could setup a postScript spooler. This can be done using desktop printing, so that any pages sent to a selected desktop printer will generate postscript files. Then use something like PreFab Player to handle the dialog boxes.
Another option is the 'save page as EPS command.' Before you try this you need to make sure all the photos are in the right place and have been updated or you'll have to deal with dialogs.
I haven't been terribly happy with using the build in hot folders with Distiller. It's difficult to catch errors. Instead, I script the distilling, then have a script read the report generated and if it finds an error it moves the EPS/postScript to an error folder and quits and relaunches distiller.
As for using a particular set of job options, I tried this a couple of years ago and it seemed to work: generate different job options and copy the preferences files for each one. Then when you want to use a particular set of options, quit distiller and replace the active prefs with the one for the options you want.
HTH,
ES
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