poscript vs pdf CMYK output file.

[steven]

Hello, a have posted something earlier and I really hope someone will give me
a clue as to what to do.

I think I might have found a way around my issue. Since I cannot get an
output CMYK PDF file (although I have Publisher 2003 with SP1 installed), I
outputed a poscript file (this workes) and then made a pdf out of it.

Can anyone tell me if it the same thing as if I printed a CMYK PDF file
directly from publisher, or is it different and how?

Also If anyone knows I'd really want to know why cant I output a
Can anyone tell me if it the same thing as if I printed a CMYK PDF file
directly from publisher in the first place.

Thank you,

Steven.

 

[Ed Bennett]

No, a postscript file is *NOT* the same as a PDF. Do you have any
kind of PDF creation tool installed? Oh and note the spelling, it's
'postscript'. How on Earth you think you can create a PDF without is
beyond me. Methinks someone is desperately in need of clue...

Actually, the more common spelling is PostScript, in my experience.

And the age-old standard procedure for creating a PDF is to create a
PostScript file, then distill to PDF. The new free PDF printers do this on
the fly as the PostScript is handed to them, Adobe Acrobat goes somewhere in
between (it uses a temporary PostScript file, IIRC).

If creating a CMYK PDF directly through Distiller fails, then it is normally
still possible to create one by printing to a PostScript file using the
Distiller driver, and then distilling the PostScript file manually.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

tangent question: What's the diff. between Distiller and Writer?


| (e-mail address removed) <[email protected]> was very
| recently heard to utter:
| > No, a postscript file is *NOT* the same as a PDF. Do you have any
| > kind of PDF creation tool installed? Oh and note the spelling, it's
| > 'postscript'. How on Earth you think you can create a PDF without is
| > beyond me. Methinks someone is desperately in need of clue...
|
| Actually, the more common spelling is PostScript, in my experience.
|
| And the age-old standard procedure for creating a PDF is to create a
| PostScript file, then distill to PDF. The new free PDF printers do this
on
| the fly as the PostScript is handed to them, Adobe Acrobat goes somewhere
in
| between (it uses a temporary PostScript file, IIRC).
|
| If creating a CMYK PDF directly through Distiller fails, then it is
normally
| still possible to create one by printing to a PostScript file using the
| Distiller driver, and then distilling the PostScript file manually.
|
| --
| Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
|
|

 

[Ed Bennett]

tangent question: What's the diff. between Distiller and Writer?

PDFWriter is the crappy PDF generator that is not included with recent
versions of Acrobat. I'm not sure how it worked, apart from "badly".

The Acrobat Distiller or Adobe PDF printer just prints a PostScript file and
passes to Distiller.

Distiller actually generates the PDF data.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

ok thanks...probably why i dont see writer on my machine anymore.


| Rob Giordano (Crash) <[email protected]> was very
| recently heard to utter:
| > tangent question: What's the diff. between Distiller and Writer?
|
| PDFWriter is the crappy PDF generator that is not included with recent
| versions of Acrobat. I'm not sure how it worked, apart from "badly".
|
| The Acrobat Distiller or Adobe PDF printer just prints a PostScript file
and
| passes to Distiller.
|
| Distiller actually generates the PDF data.
|
| --
| Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
|
|