> At Tue, 03 Sep 1996 09:59:26 +0100 Trevor Jenkins wrote;
> >And are you really suggesting that quirky software should be adopted within
> >a production environment to convert 2,000 PostScript files a month?
>
> What kind of files do you wish to Distil? Are they long documents
> or single page artworks?

The files are scientific papers. I estimate that we can expect
upwards of 3Gb of original PostScript per month. Whilst the papers
are not overly long (indeed some are only 2 pages) these papers have
significant numbers of graphics tipped-in. And I have not even dared
think about intra-document links yet because they only increase the
work load.

> ...
> Distiller is a solution if you're willing to get the right
> hardware for it.

Your right. Of course, if there were an OpenVMS version of distiller
then we could utilise the "right hardware" that my client already
has. Hardware that is used to collate, compose and otherwise process
the original papers.

Of course, with 3Gb of original PostScript and probably 3Gb of PDF
every month we can expect to wear out the single disk for the
"watched directory" very quickly or to flood the network between the
VAXes, which act as file servers, and the PC converting the files.
(Gee, that was a real smart move Adobe to force the in and out
directories onto the same physical device.)

Regards, Trevor.
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