On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 11:53, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > One really amazing feature of Openoffice is integrated export to PDF in > three forms - optimize for screen, print and type-quality. No more > installing of software like pdfcreator etc. to create PDF files > (sometime of not that great quality). OO PDFs look beautiful!
it does flash too. > > One question that I wanted to ask guys into publishing in this list. How > far does a PDF go into helping typesetting people? three flavours of pdf can be created: 1) for screen 2) for print (desktop printer) 3) for press and also two more flavours 4) for archives 5) for eBooks (duh! whazzat?!) some software, such as adobe photoshop, illustrator, etc, create their own flavours of pdfs, they open and behave normally in acrobat reader, but open them *natively* in their respective applications, and you find all the bells and whistles . . . . TeX, ghostscript, and a lot of other independent software also create pdf. mac os x has pdf as its native file formats. so in answer to your question, you need to know how to create a pdf for pre-press. assuming your work is in black-andwhite lineart, a text-only, the pdf for print could safely be used for pdf for pre-press, unless you have some halftone images, etc. in case you do need to create a high-quality pdf for pre-press which contains photographs, process colors, etc., you are better off using ghostscript and some research on this. incidentally, scribus, the dtp gpl software, is currently on stable. it does pdf workflows. try the latest stable version, but please read the online help on how to install fonts, this is important. hth, lemme know :-) LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
