RE: automating PDF creation
RE: automating PDF creation
- Subject: RE: automating PDF creation
- From: Hans Haesler <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:27:43 +0200
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Wadson, David wrote:
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That has been the problem - getting it to save the Postscript files without
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throwing up an error -48. I believe the general workaround has been to have
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the Postscript file saved to the root directory of the startup disk. Also,
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Quark 4.1 has kind-of-sort-of fixed the problem but earlier versions,
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including 3.32, are less likely to work. I'm sure Hans Haesler with correct
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me if I'm wrong - he's been involved in just about every thread on this
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subject. :-)
Hi David,
you're ... wrong. :-) But only when saying that I've been involved
(unless lurking in the background counts, too ;-).
Seriously now: I never have to print by script (we use hot-folders
watched by an XTension). So, I just listened when others complained about
printing problems. But I never took the time to try to find a solution.
All of our magazines and newspapers have an automated PDF workflow.
The layouters copy the finished XPress documents to the corresponding
hotfolder on the server. They are opened by dedicated machines which
produce the PS files.
Please visit the site of Callas Software at
http://www.callas.de/ and
look for the explanations of the XTensions "AutoPilot" and "MadeToPrint".
We use them to produce thousands of PDF files each week. The names of
the files can be composed freely, but it definitely helps if the
XPress documents are named with some system.
With "AutoPilot" you can send the data to one or more LaserWriters
while another command generates the PS file. And you can trigger
AppleScripts.
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--commented out because we could never get it to work...
Regarding this problem, I recently found two culprits by testing
the Script Menu scripts which come with QXP 5.0.
1) With "Jon's Commands" active, the files were sent to the active
printer or randomly to any available printer.
Solution: deactivate this Scripting Addition.
2) The Quark script composes the file name using the name of the
document and adding "_01.ps", when there are 10 pages or more.
But there is no test of the length of the name. When the name of
the document is longer than 24 characters then the PS files are
named with a generic name and end up at the root level (instead in
the specified folder).
Solution: insert a test which shortens the name to 23 characters.
Yes, 23: when the final PDF name counts 31 characters then the
Distiller replaces one character with an ellipsis.
All this is true for the Passport version of QuarkXPress 5.0.
I haven't made similar tests with QXP 4.11. But I've heard that it
looks like the PPD of the active printer might cause problems, i.e.
the page size which you set in your script is ignored.
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Hans Haesler <email@hidden>
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