Can't Create/Print EPS (2000)

[DesRev1]

Crew,



I have a 4 page brochure I created in 1999 when I first came on with my present company, that turned out to be useful when updated to cover a current issue in our town...to now be mailed out to the entire community (10,000 residents.)



The commercial printer of course wants an EPS file.



I attempted the first stage of this EPS saving process, which is to install a PostScript driver, but then only got as far as Print Setup Properties in the second phase.



Since we don't have any such type printers at my company, I had followed the directions for installing a generic EPS version (Apple.) That went fine...but when I then go to select the EPS Printer in the beginning of the save as EPS process, the directions tell me to select the Post Script Tab in the Print Setup Properties dialog.



I don't *have* a PostScript Tab in my Print Setup Properties dialog.



What went wrong?



Thanks,



mark4man

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Publisher 2000

Windows 2000 Pro

 

[°°MS-Publisher°°]

Did you download and install the Adobe Generic Postscript printer driver from the Adobe website.

Does the printer take PDF files?

 

[mark4man]

MS-Publisher,

Heck no.

Is that all I need?

Any specific direction to start from or driver to look for?

Thanks very much,

mark4man

 

[mark4man]

Update...



Downloaded/installed generic Adobe PostScript driver; & still have no PostScript Tab in my Print Setup Properties dialog.



mark4man




Heck no.

Is that all I need?

Any specific direction to start from or driver to look for?

Thanks very much,

mark4man

 

[°°MS-Publisher°°]

You do not need a Postscript tab - all you do is change the printer driver to the Generic Postscript Printer driver and print to that driver.

You can only print one page at a time to the printer driver to make an EPS.
So print page 1 only, then page 2 only etc. and name each file accordingly.
It should not matter if you give the printer an EPS or a Postscript file.
The Postscript file should be the file of preference over an EPS.

You will not be able to print the EPS to a normal printer, as you require a Postscript printer to print an EPS.

 

[mark4man]

MS-Publisher,

Yes...I do need an EPS, 'cause I also want to move the file to another graphics program (e.g., Illustrator) & keep working.

Back to the basic question, then: why won't the program allow me to create an EPS file? That's what I need to know. It's supposed to be able to accomplish this...why not?

Thanks,

mark4man
You do not need a Postscript tab - all you do is change the printer driver to the Generic Postscript Printer driver and print to that driver.

You can only print one page at a time to the printer driver to make an EPS.
So print page 1 only, then page 2 only etc. and name each file accordingly.
It should not matter if you give the printer an EPS or a Postscript file.
The Postscript file should be the file of preference over an EPS.

You will not be able to print the EPS to a normal printer, as you require a Postscript printer to print an EPS.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You can save the document as a ps file, Save as, files of type, ps. Illustrator will
then open the file.

--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/

MS-Publisher,

Yes...I do need an EPS, 'cause I also want to move the file to another graphics
program (e.g., Illustrator) & keep working.

Back to the basic question, then: why won't the program allow me to create an EPS
file? That's what I need to know. It's supposed to be able to accomplish this...why
not?

Thanks,

mark4man
You do not need a Postscript tab - all you do is change the printer driver to the
Generic Postscript Printer driver and print to that driver.

You can only print one page at a time to the printer driver to make an EPS.
So print page 1 only, then page 2 only etc. and name each file accordingly.
It should not matter if you give the printer an EPS or a Postscript file.
The Postscript file should be the file of preference over an EPS.

You will not be able to print the EPS to a normal printer, as you require a
Postscript printer to print an EPS.

 

[mark4man]

MS-Publisher & Mary,

Yeah...Thanks. MS-Publisher was correct. I can open the *.ps file in
Illustrator; & then save it as an *.eps. My only drawback now is that
Illustrator does not recognize certain fonts from used in Publisher.

Know anything about getting Illustrator to recognize other True Type fonts?
Guess I'll go check now in the Adobe forums. I'm almost home. Thanks very
much to you & MS-Publisher.

mark4man