Craig, if you are using OS X, then you can save as PDF using the built
in printing facility with the system. Just go to PRINT, and choose
'save as PDF', rather than going to SAVE AS within the program. Or have
I missed something here! Cheers, Susan.
On 15/12/2003, at 2:18 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
As the Save As pdf requires an Acrobat filter I have tried saving in
eps format. The document size in bytes appears to be retained in eps
and so I assume there has been no loss of data.
However, what problems am I likely to encounter when passing eps
files to a printer for final printing?
I can't speak for smaller printers, but the printers we deal with at
the POST strongly prefer PDF for everything. That said, most printers
should be able to convert an EPS (which is just a variant of
PostScript) to PDF anyway. The best way to find out is to ask your
printers.
That said, you could also use GhostScript's ps2pdf tool, which is a
free PDF converter capable of press-quality output. I use it for
documents that Acrobat Distiller chokes on at work - the file size is
larger than what Distiller produces for the same file, but it's
otherwise exactly right.
GhostScript may be built in to MacOS X as part of CUPS, or might be
available via fink. I don't know, I don't really use OSX.
It's not a GUI app, but it's pretty easy to use. Simply:
ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress input.ps output.pdf
(run as a command from the terminal).
Craig Ringer
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