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DerekLewis
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Reply #15 on: April 05, 2022, 00:39
Can you post the link or upload to Macintoshgarden? |
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #16 on: April 05, 2022, 11:42
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I'll try to locate the patch in my archives and upload it to the Garden.
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DerekLewis
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32 MB Posts: 33
Reply #17 on: May 07, 2022, 23:38
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Were you able to find the patches for Acrobat 3?
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #18 on: June 12, 2022, 17:22
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Sorry, sorry, sorry - shame on me. I was soooo busy superloadng my system during these past weeks that I totally forgot about that. I'll go an look for it this week, I promise!
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever
Reply #19 on: June 13, 2022, 13:33
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What's your 68k system configuration? I may start playing around with PDF in my 68k Macs ∙ outside of my usual using the Print2PDF printer driver to export PDF documents to modern systems, that is! 
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #20 on: June 13, 2022, 21:44
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I am emulating a Quadra 800 with 512MB on Basilisk-II /w an Octa-Core Arm64 CPU as host. I compiled the binary myself straight from source, as I found the version in the official Debian repo to be unstable, slow and lacking essential features (like "zoom to fit"). I wouldn't advise playing around with the Distiller, just for fun's sake - not on large files anyway. It'll be much less pain if you take the PostScript file and translate that to PDF under Linux or MacOS X. Because creating the PS file goes easy and takes a reasonable amount of time, even for larger volumes. But then trying to distill anything going beyond 20-40MB into a PDF file will eat up your CPU like French Fries! When I first wrote my book I went all the way from PS to PDF on Mac level, just for principle's sake. But when I had to make updates and error corrections with a looming deadline, I decided to "cheat" and wrote the PS file out to my host's filesystem, to distill it under Linux to PDF. You can not use direct PDF printers for book volumes as they get neither the DPI nor color palletes right. Only Adobe's PS Printer allows for "ready-to-print" results and then you got to translate that to PDF *losslessly* (or you just wasted 4-6 hours of hard work). The results are then comparable to any modern day system, if not superior (e.g. when using free or addware Windows PDF printers). In any case they beat MS-Work or Open Office PDF export routines, because those lack either font embedding, resolution settings or color pallete management. Then again, PostSCript was already well established and rounded out in the good old days of 68k.
Last Edit: June 13, 2022, 21:49 by 68040
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DerekLewis
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32 MB Posts: 33
Reply #21 on: June 16, 2022, 17:30
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My system configuration is a Mac IIci running system 7.1 with MS Word and WirdPerfect installed. I have Adobe Acrobat 3.0 and the LaserWriter 8.1 driver for creating PS files and converting to PDFs. I have to try the AdobePS driver to see how good a job it does in creating PS files for Distiller though. I also have a windows XP laptop that supports a SCSI interface and MacDrive for reading files from the Macintosh disks.
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #22 on: June 17, 2022, 07:02
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If you got XP then why not use Dave and an SMB share?
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DerekLewis
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32 MB Posts: 33
Reply #23 on: June 18, 2022, 04:55
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Would I get a better conversion to PDF if I exported the Postscript files from the Macintosh and convert on the Windows machine?
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #24 on: June 18, 2022, 14:27
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Not a "better" one (I tested that with a picture book of mine), just a much faster one. And even for that you need a professional grade PS to PDF engine, which most freeware Windowe PDF converters are *not*. You can test that quickly by checking on four points: 1) Does it allow me to chose DPI freely (up to 300 min.)? 2) Does it allow for the embedding of *all* fonts being used? 3) Does it allow for *lossless* compression? 4) Can I choose/adjust my color model? If you don't see anything about that in the preferences, then move on to the next candidate.
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DerekLewis
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32 MB Posts: 33
Reply #25 on: June 19, 2022, 01:28
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I will test converting my Word files with the AdobePS print driver -> Distiller -> PDF with embedded fonts, then check the PDF on Windows.
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #26 on: June 20, 2022, 02:06
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I was just about to upload my patches for the Arrobat Reader to the Garden but it seems somebody beat me to it already back in March. The top download should contain v3.0.2, which was the last version ever to be relased for 68k.
Last Edit: June 20, 2022, 02:10 by 68040
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DerekLewis
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32 MB Posts: 33
Reply #27 on: May 13, 2023, 05:45
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I know it’s been a while. Had some time to work on my document conversion to PDF again. I have the AdobePS driver installed and set for a virtual printer using the Apple LaserWriter PS/600 template. Any recommendations on printer settings?
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #28 on: May 13, 2023, 12:10
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It all depends on the target you are producing your PDF for. I know that most people have a hard time accepting it - as did I - but Adobe's "Portable Document Format" is not as universal as that name suggests. Screen output has different requirement than print. For one, its mostly not necessary to embed fonts as substitution is almost always possible on the end device and a few skewered lines because of that will hardly make a difference, as the user has to scroll up and down through the document anyway. On top of that (s)he can adjust the settings in the reader app. But if you produce output for print, the result has to be WYSIWYG down to a point (literally), or your entire page and thus the document layout might get messed up. And paper books have no "settings" option to adjust for that. Screen output is usually happy with 75dpi, yet smaller devices might make due with even less. Print on the other hand requires at least 300dpi, to be of professional quality. But (there always seems to be a "but") its of no use to produce more DPI than the physical print engine can stomach. Thus, if your printer tops out at 300dpi there is no use to feed it a PDF with 400dpi. If you use TrueType fonts (and your printer does, too) then font aliasing makes no sense for printing. Bitmap fonts on the other hand might look nice on screen, but they will almost always produce sub-par results on high def printers. When including graphics mind you that the Adobe printer does not upscale images (it only offers to downscale them). Thus, a 75dpi picture will not magically get scaled to 300dpi, just because you set the PDF to that value. Last not least: The location for temp work files in the classic (68k) version of the AdobePS printer is bound to the system drive and the unrefined PS version produces a huge amount of uncompressed data(!) When you are ready to distill everything to PDF format you can enable compression - but up to that point you better assure there is enough freespace left on your system disk or the printing will terminate mid-stream, leaving you with unusable data. Therefore, when in doubt work on smaller segments of a larger document and bind them together once you've converted it all to PDF. Mind you: Printing directly to the AdobePDF virtual device will produce documents not fit for professional use. You got to go through the PS->PDF process for that.
Last Edit: May 13, 2023, 12:17 by 68040
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