Subject: Re: Help with RTF Post-production Using PDF Distiller From: Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 21:44:16 -0400 (EST) |
At 3 Sep 1999 08:41 -0400, G. Ken Holman wrote: > 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? We've found two problems with using PDFWriter instead of Distiller, so now we only use Distiller. 1. Word's formatting is intimately tied to its idea of the output device. It may have been because we were using a custom page size, but we were getting different page breaks when we printed to PDF compared to when we printed drafts to our PostScript printer. Word could inexplicably fit one or two characters less per line when we printed to PDF, which was enough to throw off our pagination. We switched to distilling PostScript files so we wouldn't get those little surprises in our final deliveries. 2. Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files in our documents were appearing as empty boxes (or not appearing at all, I can't remember) when we printed to PDF. They appear correctly when you print PostScript to a file and distill that file. A side benefit of Distiller is that, using a technique described in the Distiller documentation, you can create a "wrapper" PostScript file so you can distill the concatenation of multiple PostScript files into a single PDF file. We've even printed third-party PDF to a PostScript file, concatentated that with our material, and produced a single PDF file for the result. I also have an impression that I can't substantiate that font embedding of PostScript fonts works better when you distill PostScript files. Regards, Tony Graham ====================================================================== Tony Graham mailto:tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9632 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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