[wellylug] TradeMe Linux jobs

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Sun Jun 29 23:08:23 NZST 2008


Bruce Hoult wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:
>> Interesting that you said that "they *were* successful. It seems to me
>> that the latest version of Adobe's software is almost designed to
>> confuse - Distiller disappears and is now merely a part of a 'suite' of
>> products, and, so far as I was able to determine, you can't buy just the
>> Distiller-type component.
> 
> I think Apple's most recent efforts are better than Adobe's.  In the
> last couple of years I've found that merely double-clicking on a
> PostScript file in OSX (thus converting it into a PDF and displaying
> it in Preview, from where it can be saved) does a smaller, cleaner and
> and more universally compatible job than running it through my
> (admittedly old, MacOS 9) version of Distiller.
> 
Interesting. But we have many thousands of PDFs to distill every day. 
Double clicking that many PSs would.. at the very least give you RSI.

Cheers,

Cliff



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