In article <t-ednUMkpowmOwTZnZ2dnUVZ_v-dnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "anyone"
<anyone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Running PM7 under classic on a Tiger setup, PM doesn't seem to know
where
> Distiller is, which is no surprise since we installed the CS2 Suite and
> Tiger.
> Can't quite recall how to point PM to Distiller to ex****t .pdf. (Writing
a
> .ps file and distilling is fine, and the best choice, but for quick
proofs
> we would prefer just ex****t)
> How to point PM to distiller, or am I thinking it wrong.?
There is no "point PM to Distiller" on a Mac, at least not that I've
ever read about anywhere. Under Windows there are various preference
files that point to directory paths, but these don't exist on the Mac
(at least not as easily user-accessible), so nobody has likely ever
tried finding / changing them.
PageMaker has always been rather flakey at making PDFs, it's much worse
under Mac OS X's "Classic" environment, and PageMaker won't run at all
on newer Intel Macs. It probably isn't helped by the strange
inconsistencies in Mac OS X itself either.
Out of five Macs at one place I do work for, only ONE laptop running
Mac OS X now seems to work at all - it won't even work on an iMac
running Mac OS 9. :o(
Sometimes using PageMaker's built-in PDF option works. It can help to
delete, or at least move, the "Acrobat Distiller Preferences" file
from the "Preferences" folder of the System Folder (NOT just "System"
which belongs to Mac OS X!). This forces Distiller to recreate the
Preference file and it can ocassionally help.
Sometimes you instead need to use the Print command to print to a
postscript file and then process that file through Distiller manually
yourself. This is fine, even for a professional print company ... as
long as you set the preference and job options properly of course.
A third option is to print to a Postscript or EPS file, then open that
file in Mac OS X's Preview application. Since Mac OS X uses PDF as a
base format, the file is automatically converted from PS / EPS to PDF
and can then be saved from Preview as a PDF ... BUT this method is
*NOT* any good for files that need to go to a professional print
company.
Unfortunately because Adobe has killed off PageMaker there won't ever
be an update to work under Mac OS X, so the only real solution is to
upgrade to InDesign (in which creating a PDF is a simple case of Ex****t
without needing Distiller).
Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hard****ps ;o)
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