[WinMac] Re: WinMac Digest #55 - 08/23/98


Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:29:34 -0400


>>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.

 I stand corrected!

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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