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Re: ?-Can complete notebooks be converted to Postscript?

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  • Subject: [mg17054] Re: ?-Can complete notebooks be converted to Postscript?
  • From: Pierre infelta <pierre.infelta at epfl.ch>
  • Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 02:32:02 -0400
  • Organization: EPFL
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Probably depends on your platform.



On macintosh, this is a one step operation 

menu  file /Print 

then send to a file instead of a printer
there is a save as file item  which allows you to delect PDF if you have
acrobat ( distiller, exchange) installed.
teh step are sequenced automatically

complete notebook->Postscript->Distiller->PDF

Silver Jones wrote:
> 
> I have seen a few notebooks that were converted to Adobe Acrobat PDF
> files.  I would like to be able to do this, but Iam not sure how this was
> accomplished.  I hope there is a way to accomplish this without converting
> to Tex first.  Is the only way to accomplish this is to do the following:
> 
> complete notebook->Tex->Postscript->Distiller->PDF
> 
> If someone knows how to convert a complete notebook to Postscript(.ps)
> this can then be run through Adobe Acrobat Distiller to get a PDF file.
> Is the following procedure possible?
> 
> complete notebook->Postscript->Distiller->PDF
> 
> Is software other than Wolfram available or needed to accomplish this?  If
> so, is it available for the Mac Platform?  I wish this was possible in
> Publicon, but it does not seem to be part of the program - why?
> 
> Is this so painful that it is best just to leave the document as a
> notebook and make MathReader available to all who are interested?
> 
> Any advice or help along thes lines would be appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> --
> Silver Jones


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