Re: [WinMac] Re: printing on PCs to Macs...
Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]Adobe.COM)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 11:41:11 -0400
At 12:46 PM -0400 8/22/98, Alex Dearden wrote:
>Good suggestion about Acrobat. And actually, even if you don't have
>Acrobat there are utilities (that you can download from Adobe) that
>enable you to print to PDF form from your driver without having to run
>the postscript file through any application.
>
Sorry, but you are wrong about this. This functionality is part
of Acrobat, and you need to purchase Acrobat to get it.
>On the Mac side of thing you
>can do it with the latest version of Laserwriter (8.5.1) or using PDF
>Writer (a little extension). on the PC side I believe it's called Acrobat
>writer or PDF writer also, it looks just like a printer driver...
>
As I noted in another message, the Laserwriter driver simply takes
the output Postscript and sends it to Acrobat Distiller.
PDFWriter is the name of our "direct to PDF" printer driver for
both Mac and Windows. It creates a PDF file directly from the
QuickDraw/GDI output of the application, without going through Postscript
and Distiller. The advantage is that it's quicker and easier - but for
people lookign for the best output, it's NOT an option.
Leonard
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