On Win95 and Acrobat 3.0, I can't distill a PS file generated from
Frame with the Adobe driver set to Optimize for Speed. I get:

%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: FmPA ]%%

Or "FmD2" as the offender. I can distill with the Portability or
Archive settings, but I get a warning about Named Destinations defined
more than once.


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Subject: Re: Archive vs. Portability PS settings
Author: acrobat@blueworld.com at INTERNET
Date: 1/12/97 10:32 PM


At 09:17 PM 1/11/97 -0500, Roger Brunstrum wrote:
>Dov Isaacs wrote:
>>
>> At 11:34 AM 1/8/97 -0800, Michael Knowles wrote:
>> >At 10:08 AM 1/8/97 -0800, you wrote:
>> >>At 09:45 AM 1/6/97 -0600, Kevin.Kelly@alltel.com wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Does anyone know if the Archive setting in the Adobe PS driver is
>> >>> better than the Optimize-for-Portability setting for generating
>> >>> portable PS and PDF files? The help provided with the driver isn't
>> >>> very clear.
>> >>>
>> >>> Kevin.Kelly@alltel.com
>> >>
>> >>For generating PDF files you absolutely DON'T need to use either of these
>> >>settings. The "optimize-for-portability" setting creates page-independent
>> >>PostScript that may be needed for various pre-press apps, but certainly
>> >>NOT for the Distiller. Such "portable" files just take longer to distill
>> >>and may result in less optimal PDF. The "archive" setting relates to
>> >>issues such as CTL-D and binary escape mechanisms and is irrelevant to
>> >>PDF generation.
>> >>
>> >> - Dov Isaacs
>> >> Director of Quality Assurance
>> >> Printing & Systems Division
>> >> Adobe Systems Incorporated
>> >
>> >On the Windows NT 4.0 platform, I have had considerable difficulty with the
>> >PostScript created by the standard PostScript driver. I've had to use the
>> >Archive format to generate Distillable PS.
>> >
>> >Mike
>>
>> Alas, the Windows NT 4.0 PostScript driver doesn't quite have the same
>> "genes" as the Windows'95 AdobePS (or even the Windows'95 PScript driver).
>> This should change dramatically by NT 5.0 ... :-)
>>
>> - Dov
>Dov, What is the preferred driver to use in Windows NT 4.0 to achieve
>best results with Distiller?

Unfortunately, at this point, the only available PostScript driver for NT 4.0 is
the PScript driver that ships with NT 4.0. My personal opinion is that NT as a
professional publishing platform really awaits NT 5.0. In the meantime,
Windows'95
with AdobePS and ATM 4.0 is certainly much more stable than Windows 3.x ever was
and (no flames from Mac fans, please) more stable than Mac 7.5.x is. I know that
it is fashionable these days to claim that you are running NT and certainly as a

server it does very well, but on the desktop and laptop, it doesn't yet have
enough publishing-friendly PostScript creature comforts. Microsoft and Adobe
are definitely working together to remedy that ...

- Dov