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Ain’t Technology Grand?

Posted March 17th, 2003 @ 08:13am by Erik J. Barzeski

In "Creating High-Res PDF Files For Free" Andy lists the several pieces of software necessary and the several steps it takes to get a PDF out of Linux. He somehow sees fit to end this with "Ain't technology grand?"

  • Unzip the PPD archive and copy the ADIST5.PPD file someplace useful.
  • Run the PostScript windows driver installer.
  • Tell it to use the "write to file" device.
  • Tell it to use the PPD you saved off in step 1.

    • Funny, I just choose "Print" and then Save as PDF. Actually, I don't - I choose "Print" and then I use 10.2.4's Print Services to choose my Desktop, Entourage, Acrobat Reader, BBEdit, or several AppleScripts I have set up to post-process the PDF. Creating the PDF is the easy part. Deciding what I want to do with it is the "long" step. Y'know, about five seconds.

    Ain't technology grand?

    3 Comments »

    3 Responses to "Ain’t Technology Grand?"

    1. | Reply Shawn
      Posted 17 Mar 2003 at 8:21am #

      Too bad the Mac OS X 10.2 pdf algy doesn't do much compression (if any) for us.

    2. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
      Posted 17 Mar 2003 at 8:40am #

      Yeah, that's the downside. But if we wanted, we could do all the steps he wanted. It's just nice to have the simpler, easier version available. Print, Click a button. Bing bang bada-boom. Wham bam thank you ma'am. [Insert your own sexually laced phrase here.]

    3. | Reply d.w.
      Posted 17 Mar 2003 at 9:18am #

      "Step three: there is no step three!"