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Hi- I'm a newcomer to the list. I have a question regarding PDF creation automation. Primarily, I want to be able to automate the process of our PDF creation. We always create 2 PDFs for everything we do - A 72 dpi version for the web, and a 150 dpi for printing. We do most of our layout work with Quark XPress 6.1. Currently, the way I create these two PDF files is to print/export a postscript file (PS) from Quark, and then manually create the PDFs for each version via the following (manual) method: 1: Choose the 72 dpi joboptions in Distiller 2: Drag the PS (i.e. eng-newfile-12345_072.ps) file to Distiller 3: After PDF file is created, add "_072" (i.e. eng-newfile-12345_072.pdf) to the filename Repeat process after choosing the 150 dpi joboptions (adding _150 to the filename). We do this a lot. I know this can be automated. Our needs seem to be more advanced than the functionality provided by the Distiller "Watched Folder" feature. It's a great feature, because I can save the PS file to a folder and then Distiller automatically creates a PDF. But, it only creates one PDF, where we need two, with different options and filenames. I'm not familiar AppleScript, but have been reading that Distiller is scriptable. I want to be able to create 2 different adobe PDFs from one PS file automatically in one shot. Essentially, save a PS file from Quark XPress and automatically this will happen: PDF 1 is created from PS and saved with suffix- _072 (i.e. eng-newfile-12345_072.pdf) PDF 2 is created from PS and saved with suffix- _150 (i.e. eng-newfile-12345_072_150.pdf) Has anyone done something like this? Does anyone have any suggestions on resources? or should I just dive into AppleScript and hack my way around? thanks, Steve To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
