[WinMac] NT PDF Writer bug [WAS:Re: WordPerfect 5.1 replacement]

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:29:02 -0400

At 10:55 AM 6/26/99 -0400, Leonard wrote:
>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...

        Yes, and guess what? When I went to install it, it asked for a serial
number. So far, so good. BUT, Acrobat Distiller was installed as part of
PageMaker 6.52, and when I entered my "Product Lifetime" serial number
from when I registered Aldus PageMaker 5.0/Windows the updater crapped
out... The serial number is of the form 03-5004-123456789 (not the correct
last 9 digits). I have licenses for Aldus PageMaker 4.2/Mac and
5.0/Windows, which I have legally upgraded & cross-graded at version 5.0.
When I installed PageMaker 6.5 I also was provided a copy of Acrobat
Distiller which installed with the same *legal* serial number as my
PageMaker 6.5 Upgrade.

        Leonard: Who at Adobe gets bug reports?

>>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

        Yeah, Acrobat 4 is indeed pretty picky as Adobe gets ready for InDesign's
launch with native Acrobat 4 file support.

        Cheers!
        Dan

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