[WinMac] Re: WinMac Digest #55 - 08/23/98
Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
>>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
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