Re: hwg-basics-digest V1 #510

Since I have never saved a file as a pdf but realize that there are benefits
I ask this:

Is the route that you take (printing to file, then opening in ghostwriter
and print to pdf) the same as having Adobe Acrobat installed, opening it in
Acrobat and saving to pdf, or how does it differ from using Adobe Acrobat
directly?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Tom Polk <jtpolk(at)texas.net>
To: hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: hwg-basics-digest V1 #510


|> Can anyone tell me how to open a 'prn' file.
|> I believe it is a text file-- for a clients webpage ;-\
|> I have tried word pad, note pad etc, etc, etc.
|
|a .prn file is a file generated when someone chooses to print a file,
|and then selects from the options for the print, print to file.
|
|I use this feature all the time. I print to a file using a ''dummy''
|postscript printer and then loading the page up in a program called
|ghostview by Aladdin. The file is thus an ascii file with commands
|specific to a postscript printer. Anyway, you open the file with
|ghostview, and then select to print (again) to a pdf file (the pdfwrite
|option) and it will generate a Adobe PDF file.
|
|Very useful when what you want to do is publish an online printable
|version of a order form or legal instrument exactly as it would appear
|as being printed from a word processor.
|
|later...
|--
|
|
|Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)texas.net -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/
| ''You might as well fall flat on your face as
|   lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
|   "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three
|          elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
| - G'Kar  "Survivors"
|

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