chris said:
Is the acrobat distiller the product you are referring to ? If not what is the actual adobe product that does the conversion from a project file to pdf ? The distiller (and other free pgms referenced in FAQ #16) seem to require the source to be
postscript. How do I get postscript from my project source ?
Thanks
Acrobat Distiller ... a part of the product called "Adobe Acrobat" by
the company called Adobe. (In the current version Adobe Acrobat 6.0,
they have renamed it and the name seems to have disappeared). It's a
background service which acts a printer driver to make PDFs. It handles
for you all the details of creating PostScript behind-the-scenes to
create a PDF file).
See
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/main.html for the current
products. The "standard" product seems to work fine with Project far as
I can tell, even though they sell the "professional" version as the one
that works with Project ... the latter does put added menus into Project
along with three toolbar buttons, but I can't spot how it does anything
special and are no obvious special settings (as there are for the
settings with Word where Adobe Acrobat does some nice conversions of the
DOC file into a PDF).
We also rely upon Ghostscript to do a lot of PDF creation ... it's free.
Setup a service on a server. You just "print" to a LAN print queue
which converts the print job into PDF (with Ghostscript) and returns the
created PDF to the person via email. Can also email a Postscript file
to a special email address, and it also returns a PDF file. Created with
a few scripts around Ghostcript. IT would be impossible to accomplish
this with the Adobe Acrobat product.
While it's not relevant if you use Adobe Acrobat, you asked how to
create a PostScript file from your Project file. All you have to do is
install a PostScript printer to you machine, e.g. one of the HP or Apple
ones. (You don't have to physically have the printer to install it's
printer driver). Direct the output of this new printer driver to a
FILE: instead of the the more normal connectoin to LPT1: or a network
share. Then when you print to this "printer", the computer will prompt
you for a file name. It will then create a PostScript representation of
your project in that file. You can then do what you want with that
PostScript file (send to printer, view on screen with a PostScript
viewer, send to Ghostscript to make PDF, etc.)
