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Re: RIP Software Question

2003-06-14 by Bill

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Yes, OS X does PDF's, very poorly indeed. Just try a bulleted list from MS 
Word and see what you get. With a rare few kinds of bullets, you actually get 
bullets in the PDF, but it is sort of a luck thing, Some things it does fine,
you just can't count on it (for PDF's).

Other than that, I love OSX---it just isn't perfect.

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the right way to get a PDF (Adobe rec) is to "print" a postscript file and use 
Distiller in Classic mode. Yeh, I hate the concept of going to Classic too,
but it works in this case.

To do the ps file you need to install a virtual PS printer in OS X. The help 
section tells you how.

Maybe Acrobat 6 fixes all this?

Bill

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