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patrickm
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: santa barbara, ca
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| MLSherrod wrote: | | well wait... when did this become an option, and how do I enable it? |
I am not sure how you enable it... After I installed Acrobat Professional, the "Adobe PDF" printer just showed up in the list of available printers in the print dialog box. I guess I got lucky! 
You might look into the Mac OS Printer Setup Utility, in particular, see if "Adobe PDF' shows up in the list of printers. If it does, make sure it has a check by in the "in menu" column (otherwise, it won't show up in the print dialog box).
Other than that, I'd suggest you look into Adobe's Acrobat Professional documentation. If you do figure it out, please let us know for future reference.
cheers,
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huc
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Location: ::caddpower.com:: (Arvada, CO)
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 6:38 am Post subject: |
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The Adobe PDF Printer is installed as part of the Acrobat Pro install process and is added to the printer list the first time ABat Pro is launched.
The steps to recreate it are somewhat of a pain -- they're covered on Adobe's support site. Adobe describes deleting certain files manually then setting up the printer again. There was also a Terminal Shell script someone had written which automates that process which can also be downloaded from Adobe's support site (might have been their discussion site, don't recall which)
Searching Adobe's Support pages is the way to go. |
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MLSherrod
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 6:40 am Post subject: |
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| ok, that answers that... you DO need Adobe pro. Here I was under the incorrect impression that there was a way to print through the OS (well, you can, but I should not have these issues) |
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patrickm
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 6:41 am Post subject: |
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| I did a little poking around and in the Home>Library>Printers folder, found an item called "Adobe PDF" (along with all my other printers). I assume Acrobat Professional installed it during my installation. |
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Matt
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: Sterling, Virginia
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 6:42 am Post subject: |
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| OSX includes the ability to print directly to pdf built-in to the OS. There have been some kinks in the system, although I think Apple has been improving the .pdfs that it creates. You'll get your best results from the latest updated version of OSX. |
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huc
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Location: ::caddpower.com:: (Arvada, CO)
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| MLSherrod wrote: | | ok, that answers that... you DO need Adobe pro... |
While I use Acrobat Pro and can confirm it does install the separate virtual printer, it's worth checking Adobe's site to see if the feature is also included with Acrobat Standard (unless someone reading this list uses ABat Stnd and can provide more details).
As an side:
Apple does provide different flavors of PDF but even their Panther implementation isn't as up to date as what Adobe offers (not a surprise). In my discussions with Adobe, here is how the versions appear to be laid out.
When using Apple Print to PDF:
Jaguar = PDF v1.2 = Acrobat 3
Panther = PDF v1.3 = Acrobat 4
Is Apple's implementation taking into account backwards compatibility? Maybe. More likely is Adobe would not want Apple to be using the latest and greatest version in their OS as it would reduce the need for Adobe's product.
When using Adobe PDF Virtual Printer:
Adobe Distiller = PDF v1.2 through 1.5 = Acrobat 3 through Acrobat 6
(i.e. the version of PDF to be used when printing to PDF can be specified in Distiller settings)
Each version of PDF has varying degrees of support for features such as transparency (e.g. transparent objects or shadows), color shading for gradient fills, etc.. There are other features available for PDF creation using Adobe's full version which just aren't built into OS X; and that makes a lot of sense too, particularly for Adobe 
It's conceivable a drawing could contain data which may not render to PDF v1.2 or PDF v1.3 correctly. Bottom line; there will be times when Apple Print to PDF will work perfect or 'okay' and other times when it will fail miserably. It's a matter of selecting the right tool for the right job.
Hope that helps.
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David Scott
Joined: 16 Apr 2004
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Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:35 am Post subject: Acrobat- How to add the Adobe PDF printer |
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1. Launch Printer Setup Utility (Panther) or the Print Center (Jaguar) from the Applications/Utilities folder.
2. Hold down the Option key and click the Add button in the Printer List window.
3. Select Advanced from the Printer connection drop-down menu.
4. In the Device Field, select "Adobe PDF (pdf)"
5. For Device Name, type the following: Adobe PDF
6. For Device URI, type the following: pdf://www.adobe.com
7. For Printer Model, select Adobe.
8. Click OK
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MLSherrod
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 6:41 am Post subject: |
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| Perfect instructions, why is this so hard... I thought Macs were suppose to be easy. |
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ftribel
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Location: Paris, France
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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I learned that today : what ever the software you use, powercadd or other : just push COMMAND-SHIFT-4 (the one of the main zone) : your cursor changes. Then drag a window. You'll find on the desktop something like "image1.pdf" and find there the window you had dragged.
Perfect to send drawings (with no scale) |
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MLSherrod
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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its a low rez PDF created... I've tried it, printing to 24x36 & it does not meet my criteria, but its good for sending a quick file via email,
and if you press
command+control+shift+4, it copies the screen to your clipboard and that is even better, so you dont have to worry about trashing that desktop PDF later |
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ftribel
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Location: Paris, France
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| yes, low res, but when you work on a 1800x1350 screen, the resolution is not so bad : I guess that the final pdf is based on the screen resolution ? |
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MLSherrod
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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| its set be the operating system, which is why Adobe costs so much... you pretty much have to buy it in order to make large scale PDFs work from a print shop |
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ftribel
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I bought and used acrobat 4,0.... that cannot work now on OS X. |
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MLSherrod
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Upgrade to the OSX version, well worth the money |
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Derek
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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For quick snaps of images I use FreeSnap.
There are a few of these utilities around but I've found FreeSnap does the job pretty well. You can use it to take snap shots of the Screen, a Window, a Selection or a predefined Location.
It supports several image formats including PDF, jpeg and tiff and you can save to a file, the clipboard or to a printer. You can't set resolutions though.
As the name suggests, it's free and you can get it from any of the file libraries (VersionTracker, MacUpdate, etc)
Derek. |
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