Re: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

[Phil Taylor]

>>> How on earth do you create those pdf documents?
>> [...] GhostScript does not support bookmarks and other fancy PDF
>> functions, but it does make good basic PDF documents from postscript
>> files. The problem for most Windows and MAcintosh users is to get
>> postscript files in the first place
>
>If you have a laser printer driver for a Mac this is just matter of
>holding down some key combination when you select "Print".  Can't
>remember quite what, but you get a PostScript file instead of a print
>job.  This has been standard on Macs since the 1980s.
>

Even better, if you have an HP Laserjet 6P, the printer driver can create
pdf files directly.  You get the option of print to printer, print to
a postscript file or print to a pdf file.  No special key combinations
required, the settings are in the print dialog.

Best of all, you don't even need the printer, just the driver.  I
haven't looked to see, but you should be able to download the driver
from Hewlitt Packard's site.

Phil Taylor


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