Difference Between Save As and Print to Adobe PDF

[Art Campbell]

First, the disclaimer: I haven't used 7 for much of anything for a
couple of years, and beyond some initial playing with SaveAs PDF in 7
(which didn't turn out well), I standardized on Printing to the
logical printer.

What I understand about SaveAs, though, is that although you can pick
a Job Option, the embedded SaveAs code basically holds the trump cards
and sets its own options, which can over-ride the Distiller options.
So maybe your job options will be fully used... but there isn't an
easy way to determine what the program is actually doing. I think
there are some more exhaustive analysis of SaveAs either in the
archives (if they're up) or in the Adobe FM user-to-user forum.

Art

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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Robert Shelton <rshelton at opentext.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art
>> Campbell
>> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 7:38 AM
>> To: Fei Min Lorente
>> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> Subject: Re: Difference Between Save As and Print to Adobe PDF
>>
>> Almost certainly. The big problem is that you don't/can't know exactly
>> what SaveAs is doing because it's hard coded.
>>
>> If you want to known and control the operation, use Print...
>>
>
> I hesitate to even say this, but I've been using Save As with Frame 7
> and Acrobat 7 for a at least a couple of years, without problems (except
> that links in the PDF are sometimes off by one line, which is weird, but
> rare).
>
> Art, I don't know what you mean when you say you can't set job options
> with Save As. The PDF Setup dialog box lets me set the job options file
> I want to use. Are you saying that Save As ignores that setting?
>
> Now where's some wood for me to knock on?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob
> "Let what comes, come,
> Let what goes, go,
> Find out what remains."
> Sri Ramana Maharshi
>