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Subject:RE: Creating PDFs in PageMaker From:"David Spreadbury" <David -dot- Spreadbury -at- afc -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 14 May 2004 11:48:59 -0700
Not being familiar with PageMaker (FrameMaker is my major tool), if you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, not just Acrobat Reader, installed on your system then you should be able to create PDFs. The easiest way is to use the Distiller print driver (installed when Acrobat is installed and should appear in your available printers). Another way is to install a suitable postscript printer that meets all of the physical requirements needed by your document (color, 11x17, etc.). A good printer would be the AppleLaserwriter 12/600. You don't need the physical printer, just install the driver with Print to File selected. Once you get the postscript file (*.ps) you can run it through Distiller. Either way you need Distiller or GhostScript, some application that will parse the postscript into PDF.
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From: bounce-techwr-l-74415 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-74415 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of James Jones
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 1:40 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Creating PDFs in PageMaker
I thought that you had to have Adobe Acrobat (or one of the non-Adobe
PDF-making things) to create PDFs. I think that Distiller might be a
part of Acrobat. I don't know for sure though.
Jim Jones
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[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-137044 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com] On Behalf Of Mike
Jueneman
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:29 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Creating PDFs in PageMaker
I'm a newbie using PageMaker 7.0 for PC and having
trouble creating a PDF from a PageMaker document.
I've successfully created other PDFs, but on this
particular document I keep getting the error message:
"Can not send PostScript to Distiller". Any thoughts
or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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