PS vs Save as PDF

[Art Campbell]

That's true, but the OP was comparing PS>Distill to SaveAs.  No
mention of watched folders.
Because SaveAs also wouldn't be used in a watched folder workflow, I
assumed that watched folders weren't involved and so didn't go down
that path.

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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Stuart Rogers
<srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com> wrote:
> Art Campbell wrote:
> ...>
>>
>> That said, there's no reason to do a two-step PS-then-distill process
>> when you can just Print to the Adobe PDF printer instance, which
>> produces the PS file and distills it in one step.
>>
>> Art Campbell
>
> For some workflows, there is a reason -- if you set up multiple watched
> folders with different job options and 'out' folders associated with them.
>  Printing to a .ps file destined for one of those folders can be a useful
> automation in the background while you do other things.
>
>
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