RE: automating PDF creation
RE: automating PDF creation
- Subject: RE: automating PDF creation
- From: "Wadson, David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:07:35 -0400
Ah, well you have been helpful in solving just about every other Quark
scripting question. :-) I'll have to look into those two products. However,
Prefab Player is probably easier on the budget than those two solutions.
But we found it much easier to have the end user do the printing. Seeing as
they would have the Quark file open already, it's just as easy to have them
create a Postscript file instead of dropping it into a hot folder somewhere.
Given that many of our ads and documents use custom fonts from an ad agency,
it spares having to figure out how to get a server-based approach to
properly deal with missing fonts and artwork. Plus, our own users can always
figure out a new way to muck up a Quark document that I'd spend the rest of
my days trying to trap in a script. Having an Applescript change the page
setup options from our laser printer settings to Acrobat Distiller settings
was the major time saver...
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From: Hans Haesler
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Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 4:27 PM
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To: AS lists
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Subject: RE: automating PDF creation
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you're ... wrong. :-) But only when saying that I've been involved
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(unless lurking in the background counts, too ;-).
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Seriously now: I never have to print by script (we use hot-folders
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watched by an XTension). So, I just listened when others complained about
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printing problems. But I never took the time to try to find a solution.
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All of our magazines and newspapers have an automated PDF workflow.
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The layouters copy the finished XPress documents to the corresponding
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hotfolder on the server. They are opened by dedicated machines which
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produce the PS files.
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Please visit the site of Callas Software at http://www.callas.de/ and
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look for the explanations of the XTensions "AutoPilot" and "MadeToPrint".
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We use them to produce thousands of PDF files each week. The names of
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the files can be composed freely, but it definitely helps if the
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XPress documents are named with some system.
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