Hi Bill, I’ve only now read this thread. Were the PDFs you are having the text quality with when printed, created in Pages Application? If so, try this:
In Pages: 1. Go to “File > Print” 2. When the dialogue box appears, click on “PDF” 3. Select “Save As Postscript” 4. Then double-click to open this file “xxxx.ps” and it will convert itself to a PDF 5. Then name it & save it as a PDF using Preview ( it will be showing Format: PDF) Cheers, Ronni On 02/07/2011, at 10:35 AM, Bill Parker wrote: > > I think I have it. I tested your idea Merv and that worked. But looking at > my main work doc this past week - a 48 page mag, it has to be sent LOW res to > actually get to me and there the problem lies! Its just that I dislike > proof reading on screen. > > > Many thanks all. > Bill > On 01/07/2011, at 9:20 PM, Merv Bond wrote: > >> >> Bill >> Recently I have received documents that are in say, Times New Roman, but the >> characters appear "ragged". >> If I select all and then set the font to Times New Roman Regular all is >> well. This occurs when the original text is sent as Times New Roman >> postscript. >> Give it a go. >> Merv >> >> On Fri1Jul2011 Fri1Jul6:18 PM, cm wrote: >>> >>> Hi Bill, >>> >>> I'm still not entirely clear. Is it unreadable gobbledegook or are the >>> letters correct but badly printed. When I say you could have the printer >>> set to draft quality, that is a per document decision that you can make in >>> the print dialog. MS Word, for instance, may be using its own print dialog >>> and setting the printer to high quality, but when you use the OS X print >>> dialog, you may have draft mode selected. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Carlo >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On 01/07/2011, at 17:57, Bill Parker<re...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Carlo The text is mostly unreadable, but NOT for MS Word and several other >>>> softwares. So I think it is not the printer. >>>> Bill >>>> On 01/07/2011, at 5:49 PM, cm wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi Bill, >>>>> >>>>> Not sure I can help but what do you mean by poor quality? Is it that the >>>>> text badly laid-out or is it that he individual letters are rough? >>>>> >>>>> Could it be that you have your printer set to draft quality? >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Carlo >>>>> >>>>> On 2011-07-01, at 17:08, Bill Parker wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I wonder if I have some settings wrong? Whether using Adobe Acrobat 8 >>>>>> pro or Preview, I cannot print PDf text at anything like decent quality. >>>>>> The printer is a Canon MX310. Done a few miles but all other >>>>>> softwares print fine. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
