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At 10:29 PM -0600 6/26/03, John Cruise wrote:
The current version of Preview lets you create PDFs via the Export command.
Never used it - but you are right, there it is.
> Enhanced in what way? By adding, for example, some PDF formatting options like the ones you get when you export PDFs from QuarkXPress and/or Adobe applications.
From what I have heard to date, there are no "job options" (ala Distiller) that will be built into the OS. They have, however, added more hooks for 3rd parties to offer such tools such as PDFShrink and PDFEnhancer...
Just so you know that I'm not making this stuff up:
I never said you were - but that doesn't mean it's right ;).
"I still recommend (as do my sources at Apple) that the best way to generate PDF files for print production in OS X is to either save PostScript files and distill them in Classic, or in Adobe applications use the Save As or Export commands to produce PDFs for proofs, comps, and review cycles."
I COMPLETELY agree with the second half of that statement, ALWAYS use the "built in" PDF generation from ANY application - esp. Adobe's.
The first is no longer an issue, since Distiller is now native and directly accessible from the Print dialog with Acrobat 6.
What I'm really trying to determine is whether the built-in PDF creation feature in QuarkXPress 6 (accomplished via Global Graphic's Jaws PDF Library) is superior - or not - to the PDF-creation capabilities available in Jaguar and/or Panther.
It is superior - NOT because it may or may not generate better PDF's - BUT because it's native PDF generation. Native PDF generation from an application will ALWAYS be the best route to PDF - because it will mean no data loss during conversion.
They may not be the world's best PDF's (Corel, for example, generates crappy PDF) - BUT they will contain the most accurate rendering of the original data.
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