What are the advantages/disadvantages of making a PS file and distilling it
to a PDF vs the Save as PDF option? Thanks.
Karyn R Smith
Bombardier Customer Services - Customer Training DFW
Training Program Developer
2929 West Airfield Drive
P.O. Box 619011
DFW Airport TX 75261
469-791-4386 w
SaveAs uses hidden job settings that differ from the standard
Distiller job settings and for many people don't work as well -- it
just tends to be more problematic to produce consistent results. How
well it works varies a lot depending on your FM and Acrobat versions,
and whether you use the
Art Campbell wrote:
...
That said, there's no reason to do a two-step PS-then-distill process
when you can just Print to the Adobe PDF printer instance, which
produces the PS file and distills it in one step.
Art Campbell
For some workflows, there is a reason -- if you set up multiple
What are the advantages/disadvantages of making a PS file and distilling
it
to a PDF vs the Save as PDF option? Thanks.
If you read this board regularly, you'll see that almost all problems
relating to PDF production result from using Save as PDF. Just avoid it.
Instead, print to the Adobe
That's true, but the OP was comparing PSDistill to SaveAs. No
mention of watched folders.
Because SaveAs also wouldn't be used in a watched folder workflow, I
assumed that watched folders weren't involved and so didn't go down
that path.
Art Campbell
art.campb...@gmail.com
...
Mike Wickham wrote:
There is one time, however, that you might want to print to PS, and that's
if you create watched folders in Acrobat. These are folders that Acrobat
monitors. When a PS file appears in them, Acrobat automatically distills the
file. The cool thing is that you can set up
SaveAs uses hidden job settings that differ from the standard
Distiller job settings and for many people don't work as well -- it
just tends to be more problematic to produce consistent results. How
well it works varies a lot depending on your FM and Acrobat versions,
and whether you use the
Art Campbell wrote:
...>
> That said, there's no reason to do a two-step PS-then-distill process
> when you can just Print to the Adobe PDF printer instance, which
> produces the PS file and distills it in one step.
>
> Art Campbell
For some workflows, there is a reason -- if you set up multiple
> What are the advantages/disadvantages of making a PS file and distilling
> it
> to a PDF vs the "Save as PDF" option? Thanks.
If you read this board regularly, you'll see that almost all problems
relating to PDF production result from using Save as PDF. Just avoid it.
Instead, print to the
That's true, but the OP was comparing PS>Distill to SaveAs. No
mention of watched folders.
Because SaveAs also wouldn't be used in a watched folder workflow, I
assumed that watched folders weren't involved and so didn't go down
that path.
Art Campbell
art.campbell at gmail.com
Mike Wickham wrote:
> There is one time, however, that you might want to print to PS, and that's
> if you create "watched folders" in Acrobat. These are folders that Acrobat
> monitors. When a PS file appears in them, Acrobat automatically distills the
> file. The cool thing is that you can
What are the advantages/disadvantages of making a PS file and distilling it
to a PDF vs the "Save as PDF" option? Thanks.
Karyn R Smith
Bombardier Customer Services - Customer Training DFW
Training Program Developer
2929 West Airfield Drive
P.O. Box 619011
DFW Airport TX 75261
469-791-4386 w
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