Robin Turner wrote: >On Thursday 21 March 2002 03:47, Walter Logeman wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I have a brochure i need to produce and the printing place will >>accept Publisher, Photoshop, or Pagemaker files. >> >>Is there a way of generating cmpatable files in some way - we may >>need to pass the file back & forth in email. >> > >Best to ask them what file formats they can read. PDF is the obvious choice >while you're bouncing stuff between you (it's often used as a lingua franca >between PageMaker and QuarkXPress), though for final copy PostScript will of >course be better (if the printers say they can't handle PostScript, they're >not real printers). > >Robin > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > You might want to acquire sdf which is a neat little package that will not only allow coding some cool formats but also will do translations to pdf, doc, html, sgml, postscript and other formats. Of course, there are some tools just lying around that do that as well, and some of the word processors will work with them. sdf is "simple document formatter" or something similar and is easy to find through google. (MIght want to search on the author, Ian Clatworthy)
If they accept postscript files, you might benefit by learning to use LyX. Most who do or who learn LaTeX just don't return to standard inflexible, do-everything-with-the-spacebar, WYSIWYG type of word processor. Civileme
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