I am far from an expert in this area, but this has been my
experience. When I use Finale/Mac's built in .pdf creation, it works
well for other Mac users, but when I send those pdfs to PC users,
there are staff lines and other things missing. I have cured this by
saving the material as a ps file (often with multi page documents)
and then using distiller to convert it to pdf. This has worked
consistently well for me.
Chuck
On Nov 4, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
This is different than my experience.
I found that if a .pdf file didn't display correctly in Preview,
then Acrobat 7 would probably display it and print it correctly.
Usually these were .pdfs from PC users.
Isn't this odd!
Incidentally, so far I have been using Apple's built-in pdf
creation utility with no problems, either with Finale or with
AppleWorks with imported EPS graphics. I understand there are some
features missing compared with Distiller, but I haven't needed them
so far.
Christopher
On Nov 4, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Randolph Peters wrote:
I don't know if this still applies, but we had a discussion about
pdf anomalies back at the beginning of 2005. Here is what I wrote
(and discovered) then:
There are some anomalies on the Mac side of things as well when it
comes to printing and viewing pdfs.
I recently made a pdf of a Finale file using the new Acrobat 7
Professional print driver. There were some note heads missing as
well as missing staff lines here and there when viewing the file
in Acrobat 7 or Acrobat 7 Reader. The results were the same on
screen and in print.
I took the same file and opened it in the Apple Preview program
instead of Acrobat and everything was there and it printed just fine.
Go figure.
-Randolph Peters
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Godofredo Romero wrote:
one way to avoid this is by first saving the document as an .eps
and then use the distiller to convert it.
Well, it is impossible to save this file as one EPS since it has
quite a number of pages. I did try to save as PS and Distill,
with exactly the same result.
Johannes
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