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Re: PDF and postscript

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  • Subject: [mg35873] Re: [mg35831] PDF and postscript
  • From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh at wolfram.com>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 06:00:58 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: "Wolfram Research, Inc."
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Mike wrote:

> Over the years I've never had any success printing notebooks to PDF when
> using acrobat. The documents never look like they do in the notebook due
> apparently to several screwy font substitutions. I've never figured out how
> to correct this.
> 
> I'm wondering if it is possible to save a whole notebook as a postscript
> file. Some of the archived material in mathsource is postscript. If this is
> possible i wanted to see what the resulting file looks like in Ghostview and
> then maybe save as PDF from Ghostview.

You can do this under Windows and MacOS by installing a PostScript printer 
driver, choosing this printer as your target from Mathematica, and then 
specify that the driver write its ouput to a file rather than a printer 
port.  You can download the generic PostScript driver directly from 
Adobe's website:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html#Printer

The X Window version of Mathematica emits PostScript when printing, so it 
suffices just to click on the print dialog radio button that directs its 
output to a file.

-- 
P.J. Hinton
User Interface Programmer                         paulh at wolfram.com
Wolfram Research, Inc.



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