[Framers] Longtime Frame File suddenly cannot be printed to postscript for PDF production

Alan Litchfield alan at alphabyte.co.nz
Wed Aug 31 17:12:26 PDT 2016


or provides more grist to the mill of angst. But I agree that generally, 
it solves nothing but provides a quick fix.

Alan

On 1/09/16 9:20 am, Fred Ridder wrote:
> Back when Dov Isaacs was still active on the list, he used to call it
> Reinstallsheimer's Disease. He was never convinced that it did anything
> useful in at least 90% of the cases reported. But I suppose if you're in
> the right zen frame of mind it gives you some time to calm down while
> you watch the progress indicator move ever so slowly...
>
>
> -FR
>
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> to postscript for PDF production
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>
> On 1/09/16 8:19 am, louisek at mchsi.com wrote:
>
>> Can I tack on a related question? Am I right in not fully trusting a PDF made by "Save As"? Or do I just have deep-seated psychological issues? ;-)
>>
>
> More the latter, if you are referring to anything newer than version 9.
> There was much discussion on the list some time ago about the relative
> merits of either approach. I have been strong advocate of the ps->pdf
> workflow but nowadays, I would promote the Save As... as providing a as
> good a quality output.
>
> Working on 2015 this week, I observed that Save As uses Distiller in any
> case, so by doing it manually only takes time and adds no other value.
> That was because the Adobe Acrobat license decided to screw itself up
> and I needed to reinstall Acrobat and all the other CC apps I use.
>
> huh, why do we need to reinstall this stuff all the time?
>
> Cheers
> Alan
>
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