To set this up in Quark 5.0, for example, go to Preferences > Application > PDF, and in the 'Workflow' options, select 'Create PostScript File for Later Distilling'. "I would suggest to those encountering the problem of Quark Xpress PDF plug-in not 'seeing' the Distiller 6.0 app to try writing their PS files to a temporary folder (maybe a watched folder) instead. UPDATE: MacFixIt reader Richard Cote offers another solution for getting Xpress documents into Distiller: Unfortunately, as a Classic app, Quark cannot "see" the new Distiller 6.0 application package, which only runs under Mac OS X, as a usable version of Distiller. The original problem is that the first time you setup Xpress to use Distiller, you are required to find and identify the distiller application on your system. Make an alias of that item, which is the application residing in the package.įrom QuarkXpress, instead of trying to choose the OS X distiller app, try pointing it to the alias created. Navigate to where the application resides in the package, usually Contents/MacOS/AppName. Perform a "Get Info" on the Mac OS X Distiller application, and show its package contents. This solution is not thoroughly tested, so please let us know your results. If you have any success with alternate PPDs you might want to post that information here (or actually in the printing/plotting forum).Last week we noted that Quark Xpress 4.1.x and 5.0.x running in Classic mode under Mac OS X cannot directly use the Export to PDF commands that are available with the newly released Acrobat Distiller 6. It is hard to get any quicker and easier than that. The MacGhostView program has a precompiled "macps2pdf_osx" application which is drag and drop. My guess is that Ghostscript will do the same. Adobe Acrobat (full version) will "optimize" your PDF file for you and should take out anything extraneous. As far as file size is concerned- it may be that your fonts are being embedded and weren't or if you have raster graphics they are being handled differently- like the preview image is different. You will have to select the option under the printer specific options- ie rotate: true or false. Rotation problems I could see- the 1055 PPD has a confusing array of layout options. If you are having resolution problems, try sifting through the options in the PPD. ps files generated by Apple's Laserwriter (postscript) driver. PrinttoPDF and PDFWriter were good in that under OS9 they bypassed Apple's postscript printer driver. ps renderer) uses the PPD to give you page sizes, rotation, and resolution. There seem to be a few bugs.Īpple's printer driver (and associated PDF and. I wouldn't call the current release of the PPD entirely complete as well. You might want to try out another PPD file other than the HP1055cm one. Get info on VW 9.5 and toggle the open in classic button. The other option is to open VW 9.5 in classic mode when you need to output final pdfs and use printtopdf under classic mode (assuming it works under classic mode). Remember though that Acrobat Distiller is needed to convert ps to pdf. You can of course edit the pdf file as well as check font embeddment, etc. Often it will "render" the file better than Preview. Ghostscript isn't.Īdobe Acrobat itself (not the reader) works pretty well under OS X. PStill and MacGhostView are shareware and commercial. look at for a debian package manager which will happily install ghostscript as well as x windows and such for you. Of course since OSX is BSD Unix you can compile ghostscript yourself and run it via command line. The best alternative may be MacGhostView, which is a front end to ghostscript and will view the raw. Adobe Acrobat Distiller is not carbonized yet, but works in Classic mode. If you write the file to postscript (under output options tab in print dialog) you have a few options for ripping the file into pdf. I am surprised that you are having so much trouble generating acceptable pdfs.
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