Re: [WinMac] Re: WordPerfect 5.1 replacement


Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:55:40 -0400


At 10:21 AM -0700 6/25/99, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>Uhh, unless they hid it really well, Adobe doesn't have the PDF Writer
>for the mac, it's windows only, and requires Acrobat to function.

        The PDFWriter that's on the server is really an updater for
3.x for NT - and yes, it does indeed require Windows. I keep
considering writing my own PDFWriter (now that I'm not at Adobe
anymore), but then I find other things to do...

>Also, it may be just my inexperience with the package, but, from what
>I've done, Ghostscript makes really crappy .pdf's :-(
>
        It generates "so so" PDF's - they work fine with Acro3 but
Acro4 is a bit more picky about PDF's and the GS ones tend to make it
unhappy.

LDR

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