Re: [WinMac] Re: WordPerfect 5.1 replacement

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 14:26:34 +0000

Leonard Rosenthol 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...

Yeah, I put the suggestion in to Adobe some time ago that thier postscript
driver should include a rudimentary 'Write to PDF function' no optimization,
no playing with the fonts, no bookmarks, etc, just make a %@$@# .pdf file. I
suggested it would go a long way to make .PDFs the standard, but, do they
listen to me?

Belushimode/ But noooooooo! /Belushimode ;-)

> >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.

Yeah every time I've tried it with GS they're all jaggy and ugly, even using
the default 'postscript fonts'. But I've also not done a lot with it.

So Leonard, hows MacHack going? (saw you quoted in the Macintouch report ;-)

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