Leonard,

I can tell you that we use PageMaker to create instruction books and generate PDF files using the "export" command versus the "print" (to file) command. One of the main reasons that I do not have the export feature automatically distill is for twofold; one being that my film service provider prefers to have the postscript file instead of the PDF file, and two, I got tired of losing all work when my machine crashed during the distill process. Crashing actually happened frequently which meant that 20 or so minutes of exporting work went down the drain as the postscript file is trashed during this process.

I can't say why I had performance problems (since I do not maintain this workstation), but after about the third time (I'm a little slow) of losing a file that was in the distill process and having to start over, I just generate postscript and then distill manually. This way, I can also distill a print optimized version, a screen optimized version, etc., all from the same postscript. When I'm done, I can just trash the postscript file.

Ely Newman wrote:
>we use PageMaker files. It looks like you can create articles in PM if you
>use the "export to PDF"; however, print to PS and distill that. Is there a
>way to create articles in PM that will work for distilled postscripts?
>
Given that PageMaker's "Export to PDF" feature is really a
"Print to PS, and then Distill" process - I don't understand why you
wouldn't want to use it?



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