Does anyone print pdf (Acrobat) files where they come out really good? I currently produce a document in Suse 8.0 then I save it to my server (w2k machine). I go to the server (via KVM) pull up the document and then print it to my pdf writer. It comes out great! When I try to create a pdf in Linux, it comes out real choppy, hard to read and missing words (even though the fonts are the same). Nothing I can send to a client. Anyone have any help? Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 19:59, Tom Nielsen wrote:
When I try to create a pdf in Linux, it comes out real choppy, hard to read and missing words (even though the fonts are the same). Nothing I can send to a client.
The pdf's created on my system are just fine. A few questions: (1) How did you produce the pdf? (2) Looks choppy in which viewer? (3) Which version of Ghostscript are you using? Charles -- "The IETF motto is 'rough consensus and running code'" -- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 17:59, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Does anyone print pdf (Acrobat) files where they come out really good?
I currently produce a document in Suse 8.0 then I save it to my server (w2k machine). I go to the server (via KVM) pull up the document and then print it to my pdf writer. It comes out great!
When I try to create a pdf in Linux, it comes out real choppy, hard to read and missing words (even though the fonts are the same). Nothing I can send to a client.
Anyone have any help?
Tom
How are you creating pdf in linux? I have used the following 2 methods of which #1 is OK, and #2 produces very good pdf. 1. From staroffice 5.2 or openoffice print the file that you want to convert to pdf as "print to file" and save the new file as a postscript file "newfile.ps". Open the "newfile.ps" using PS/PDF Viewer and then print to PDF file conversion as "newfile.pdf. This method produces good text but the graphics are very pixellated. 2. From staroffice 6.0 print the file to the printer called "pdf conversion", assuming that you set this up on the install of staroffice. Done. Very good text and graphics in these *.pdf files. The pdf from staroffice 6.0 were used to carry corporate business plans and joint venture proposal documents between computers and operating systems and to the colour printer where the hard copies were produced. High quality was important. The pdf from staroffice produced excellent results. Each of the principals of the companies (diverse locations) received a copy of the pdf to generate their own copies using their own systems and printers, everyone was very happy with the quality. BTW, both methods produce pdf that have worked very well with North American clients. In the last couple of months, since I started producing more files as pdf, there have been instances where the pdf were apparently not easy or possible to review. (England, Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait) Have not been able to track down what the source of the problem might be. Paper Size? Fonts? My errors? Client errors? The clients have not provided information beyond "it did not work" and since the pdf files were sent in advance of the paper copies there has been limited incentive to seriously solve this problem. Hope some of this helps. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01
* Ralph Sanford;
BTW, both methods produce pdf that have worked very well with North American clients. In the last couple of months, since I started producing more files as pdf, there have been instances where the pdf were apparently not easy or possible to review. (England, Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait) Have not been able to track down what the source of the problem
If you want you can send me pdf file (send to my email address directly. As I am Turkish may be I can find the problem related to your pdf's. -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 02:15, Ralph Sanford wrote:
How are you creating pdf in linux?
With plain old Ghostscript. The latest GNU version (7.05) product very good results. You can do it in 2 ways: (1) Print to a postscript file and use the command ps2pdf. We can also specify the pdf level by using ps2pdf12, ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14. (2) Set up an lpr print queue and use pdfwriter as the device. Charles -- if (argc > 1 && strcmp(argv[1], "-advice") == 0) { printf("Don't Panic!\n"); exit(42); } (Arnold Robbins in the LJ of February '95, describing RCS)
An easy way to do this -and I think it has been mentioned before-, is to
choose as printer "kprinter --stdin", as opposed to lpr.
You can set this up in spadmin from Openoffice for instance, now you
can choose pdf, ps, or any of your default printers to print to.
* Charles Philip Chan
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 02:15, Ralph Sanford wrote:
How are you creating pdf in linux?
With plain old Ghostscript. The latest GNU version (7.05) product very good results. You can do it in 2 ways:
(1) Print to a postscript file and use the command ps2pdf. We can also specify the pdf level by using ps2pdf12, ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14.
(2) Set up an lpr print queue and use pdfwriter as the device.
Charles
-- if (argc > 1 && strcmp(argv[1], "-advice") == 0) { printf("Don't Panic!\n"); exit(42); } (Arnold Robbins in the LJ of February '95, describing RCS)
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