[WinMac] Re: PostScript platform independent?

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:17:54 -0500

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        OK, you use Acrobat Distiller... And indeed the settings are critical. But
how do you handle trapping? Do you use the "In-RIP Trapping" extensions in
your RIP?

At 01:59 PM 1/11/99 -0500, Carver Washburn wrote:
>Response to Milan Adamov comment about Postcript and Corel
>
>"PostScript is platform independant. But we have an imagesetter in
>company (the other department is prepress oriented), and from our
>experience, PostScript files coming from Macs never had any problem,
>while those files coming from PCs are like playing lottery, especially
>if they are Corel-made, they look good distilled in PDF, but generates
>error in RIP. Several times our operators wasn't able to do anything
>with the PS file and clients went to competition and competition never
>could do anything with files also. As I can here from our competition,
>they all have similar problems.
>
>Milan
>Milan Adamov
>Colorgrafx d.o.o., Netopia Inc., Farallon and ACI distributor
>Misarska 5, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
>Tel/Fax. +381-11-323-2159 http://www.colorgrafx.co.yu/
>E-mail 1: madamov@opennet.org E-mail 2: madamov@colorgrafx.co.yu
>
>Response:
>
>I design a biweekly tabloid newspaper - 16 pages with 8 pages
>four-color. Ads are designed in CorelDraw and imported to QuarkXpress
>V4.04. Final output is color separated and distilled from Quark and
>delivered to Web offset press printer as PDF files. (all genetrated on a
>Pentium PC).
>
>Printer outputs to film on a Mac-based Imagesetter. There has never been
>a problem doing any of this. Yes, I have even used a couple of
>"isolated" TruType fonts - but they are all embedded in PDF.
>
>Admittedly, the PDF settings for distillation are critical and specific,
>but Adobe helped guide me though them.
>
>Obviously, something is different between Milan Adamov process and mine
>-- but nothing that a little homework might correct.
>
>Carver Washburn
>clwashburn@worldnet.att.net

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