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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