On Jan 17, 2010, at 3:58 AM, Tom Field wrote:

> On Jan 16, 9:40 am, John Carmonne <carmo...@aol.com> wrote:
>>> From what I have read Snow Leopard can reduce the space needed to store the 
>>> files. I have not actually experience that but I guess maybe  10.5.8 does 
>>> this as well.
> -- May well be true. The most obvious explanation is usually correct.
> 
>>> One problem I'm having with Snow Leopard is getting AppleWorks 6 to create 
>>> pdfs. Almost all my written files are AppleWorks all the way up from Claris 
>>> 2.0: (I guess I just dated myself
> -- Speaking of dating yourself, I've been using WriteNow since the
> beginning (but after upgrading to 4 went back to 3). It has no
> capacity to make pdfs directly, but, if you print to file, you get
> postscript files. If you can save .ps files, those will open with
> Preview; when you close them, they will be saved as pdfs. I've been
> doing this for years and never had a problem. True, two steps, but it
> beats bloatware. You don't *need* Acrobat unless you're combining
> pdfs and v.5 works fine for simple jobs like that. (BTW, I tried doing
> it more directly using Acrobat8; didn't work immediately and I didn't
> Try to pursue it.)
> 
> Tom Field
> At the headwaters of the Merrimac
Sound like something I can do because I can never turn loose of my Classics
John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA



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