Hi Bill, I meant to mention before that for best quality printing of PDFs. Save as PDF-X - Generates a PDF-X of your print job to a destination of your choice. PDF-X files follow a series of printing related requirements not found in standard PDFs, and are used by professional print shops.
So I guess you could leave the “Postscript” bit out ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 02/07/2011, at 3:10 PM, Bill Parker wrote: > All from Quark as far as I know Ronda. But the save as PS option looked a > possibility. I'll try that later. > > Bill > On 02/07/2011, at 2:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> 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>
