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At 04:03 PM 2/24/2004, Kevin Hammond wrote:
We are looking to deploy a network based PDF creation solution. We believe that a server based solution will simplify our desktop maintenance. The idea is to create a postscript printer and redirect the printing to a network folder (distiller) or ghostscript.
That is a common solution to the need for network-based PDF creation. One issue with only these two options is that you are limited yourself AND that you need to Distiller SERVER, NOT the standard Distiller.
You should probably also look at solutions such as the new Adobe JobReader, Jaws Courier, the new NitroPDF from ARTS, etc.
Some of our goals are to overcome installing special fonts on all computers that must create pdf's and to tweak and maintain local distiller settings on each workstation.
Fonts have to be on the computers anyway in order to create the documents - so I don't see solving that one.
The theory is that we can install Acrobat on a server and use its "watched folders" option to capture incoming postscript files and convert them to pdf's using its local fonts and centralized pdf settings.
Lovely theory, but unless EVERY PERSON who is going to use this system ALSO has a licensed copy of Acrobat (though not necessarily installed), you are violating the EULA for Acrobat. Hence my comment above about needing Distiller Server.
Questions:
1) Will Distiller create better quality PDF's than ghostscript or other pdf solutions?
Yes, Distiller will create better PDFs than Ghostscript.
2) I have read how Acrobat handles fonts in PDF creation. Will a postscript printout be able to maintain font information if the local font is not installed?
You can't author in Word/Excel/etc if the font isn't installed - forget about PS/PDF...
3) Might we be better off just pointing the Distiller font location to a network directory containing our font cache?
Won't help authoring though. A font manager such as Font Reserve would...
Leonard
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