Distilling UNIX PS files without a UNIX Distiller

[ezra <ezra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ummm, can't you do this with a Macintosh, also? ;-)
Ezra

Jeanette Feldhousen wrote:
> 
> "Lester C. Smalley" wrote:
> > FrameMaker and FrameMaker+SGML _are_ my tools of choice, but without a
> > UNIX version of Acrobat (Distiller specifically) it is rather annoying
> > to produce PDF files from them.
> >
> > I have to print to PS, move the files to a different platform, distill,
> > and then move them back.  This is NOT in any sense an automatic workflow
> > process, which is the goal.
> >
> > Now, if Adobe is intending to offer the full Acrobat for UNIX again,
> > not merely the reader . . .
> >
> Well, you can try the solution we've come up with (YMMV, of course), but
> you've gotta have at least one PC available.
> 
> Set up your PC so that you can map UNIX directories to a drive (I use
> Exceed, but you can probably use other things). Run distiller on your
> PC, and set up a watched folder in distiller, using a directory on a
> UNIX workstation. Then you just have to move the PS file on UNIX into
> your watched folder, and move the PDF file to wherever you want it after
> distiller runs on the PC.
> 
> I know that this is not going to work in all environments, but it's
> working
> pretty well for me. Obviously, you have to have a Windows PC and you
> have
> to keep distiller running on it at all times.
> 
> --Jeanette
> 
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