Re: FrameMaker's next release

[Ken Bowen <ken@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Jeanette Feldhousen wrote:

> > 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.
 
That approach works here too.  We use Samba to mount parts of Unix
drives on the Windows box.  It's free and solid.

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