Re: Help with RTF Post-production Using PDF Distiller

["Jack Fitzpatrick" <jfitzpatrick@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken:
Glad I could finally help somebody--Lord knows this list has helped me a
bunch.

Distiller converts Postscript to PDF, while PDFWriter operates at the GDI
level and may thus be installed as a "printer" for any Windows app (very
cool).  Distiller is much slower in my experience, though Adobe claims it
produces more optimized PDF.  It does appear to have several more features
than PDFWriter, none of which I need.   What Distiller is really nice for is
that you can simply double-click on a Postscript file and it converts to PDF
and loads into the Acrobat Reader.  The results are much better than
Ghostview and other Postscript viewers I've tried.

Jack Fitzpatrick
ADP Claims Solutions Group
http://www.csg.adp.com
(503) 786-3114

----- Original Message -----
From: G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Help with RTF Post-production Using PDF Distiller


> I see there are fewer "job options" in PDFWriter than Distiller, and I
> can't get the watermark I need in *one* of my many cases (so perhaps I can
> live without it).  I had understood that somehow Distiller was "better"
> than PDFWriter.
>
> Can anyone point me to a comparison of PDFWriter vs. Distiller?  Why would
> I use one instead of the other?
>
> I use DSSSL to produce the PDF of my commercial XSLT training material ...
> so I need a PDF file that is compact for distribution yet wholly
> self-contained so everyone can read/print it on any platform with the free
> Adobe reader.



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