RE: Distiller Trivia (WAS RE: Frame 6 files only distilling in Black and White - help!)

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Art:

(1) Count your blessings. You are lucky this works for you.

(2) Adobe does not test the ability of PostScript generated by arbitrary
PPD and PostScript driver combinations to produce PostScript that yields
proper PDF and allows full access to Distiller and PDF features. The
reason is obvious, most don't by definition. PostScript, especially
from drivers is indeed device-DEPENDENT! Quite frankly, if you are
discarding potential PostScript printers simply because the PostScript
generated via the official driver in combination with the PPD won't
yield a "proper" PDF file, you are doing yourself and your clients
a tremendous disservice.

(3) The original thread was started by a poor user who should given
solutions that are if not bulletproof, at least not porous enough to
drive an 18-wheeler through. Thus, my concern at any response that
relies on circumstantial proof of correctness. 

I respect your disagreement!  (8^)>

        - Dov

At 3/20/2002 12:32 PM, Art Campbell wrote:
>Dov, I can't and won't disagree with you because I'm sure all your points
>are well-researched and valid.
>
>But as a FM user who's building technical books and similar documents day 
>in and day out.... the simple formatting and line breaks are more critical
>to me than the issues you raise. All your gotchas are valid, but I'm not
>
>sure how many apply to the usual run of documents produced by FM. I have to have 
>accurate electronic copies, and for that I don't think it's practical to use 
>drivers that can't generate identical hard copy. If one of my writers decides the 
>template isn't sexy enough and thinks some full bleed A3 pages are required, 
>I may need to change my mind. But typographic consistency on 8.5 x 11 pages
>and electronic images of those pages is our goal. 
>
>I may certainly be lucky in my choice of printers and drivers... but 
>Adobe PS or a high-quality OEM use of it is always a requirement for any
>printer we buy. And testing the drivers for .pdf-ability is a required check-off.
>If it doesn't work well both ways, we buy something else.
>
>So I guess I'm respectfully agreeing to disagree ;-)
>
>Art 
>
>
>Art Campbell
>Manager of Communications
>Sandburst Corporation
>600 Federal Street
>Andover, MA 01810
>978 689-1673


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