Re: hwg-basics-digest V1 #510

Watch out for the PDF Writer.  Sometimes it writes perfect PDF's, sometimes
it messes up all of your fonts, colors, etc.  If your program has a good
export to PostScript or EPS function (or you have a good PostScript printer
driver you can create PostScript files with), you might want to experiment
with trying both (you can distill the PostScript or EPS file with Acrobat
Distiller, a part of Exchange).


-----Original Message-----
From: Renee Johnson <rjohns16(at)utk.edu>
To: Donna Yager <prpub1(at)dreamscape.com>; HTML Guild <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: hwg-basics-digest V1 #510


>If you have Adobe Acrobat with the exchange program, all you have to do is
print
>the file to the PDF writer ( you should have it as a print option with
acrobat
>installed).  Then bring the file up in reader or exchange and it should be
>identical to the original file.
>
>It sounds like both of you are taking extra steps.
>
>Donna Yager wrote:
>
>> 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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