Transforming Mathematica Notebooks into Pdf format with Acrobat Distiller
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- Subject: [mg23569] Transforming Mathematica Notebooks into Pdf format with Acrobat Distiller
- From: "Andreas Papandreou" <a-papa at uom.gr>
- Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 17:44:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Dear MathGroup, I want to transform an entire mathematica notebook into pdf format. I have Adobe Distiller but I am not an advanced user. I managed to preserve fonts of mathematica by printing to file using printer pdfdistiller and setting fonts to Encapsulated Post Script. The problem is that it will only print one page at a time. After I can distil each page and eventually rebuild the document in pdf form by dragging and dropping each page into a pdf document. This procedure is not only cumbersome but it also means (I think) that the size of the pdf file gets quite large as the fonts are embedded in each page. When I printed to file setting font to "optimised for speed" (instead of Encapsulated Post Script) I lose some of the equation fonts. The only other thing that I tried with partial success is to print to file with a post script printer like apple laser writer 12/600 then open it in ghostview and then print to file with pdfwriter. This gives me a pdf file with some mistakes and less clarity. I also tried to combine several prn (or ps) files by following two procedures that Adobe Distiller provides (in order to avoid embedding the Type 1 fonts in every page) but without success (only the first page appeared ok, the rest were garbled). I would greatly appreciate your help on using adobe distiller effectively. Thanks. _________________________________________________________ Andreas Papandreou mailto:a-papa at uom.gr <mailto:a-papa at uom.gr> Assistant Professor 156 Egnatia Street P.O. 1591 54006 Thessaloniki Greece Tel/Fax: +30 (31) 867 530