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PDF to printshop from Frame/Word (was RE: Industry Standard?)
Subject:PDF to printshop from Frame/Word (was RE: Industry Standard?) From:"Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:48:53 -0500
Hallo:
With FrameMaker 5.5.x and 6, you don't need to buy Acrobat to make PDFs. (If
you have MS Word, you do need to buy Acrobat for this purpose.) Also, while
I would never send application files to a print shop, true, most pre-press
departments don't have FrameMaker. However, I have always sent PostScript
print files, created to the print shop's specs. This should work as well as
sending a PDF. (And, if you care, you can make a PDF from the PS file to
visually check it . . . though I always checked blues. After the initial
interaction, there are rarely surprises from a print vendor if your methods
remain constant.)
Cheers,
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ekandl -at- unitechsys -dot- com [SMTP:ekandl -at- unitechsys -dot- com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:25 PM
>
> One word of advice
> though: if you decide to use FrameMaker, make sure you buy Acrobat as
> well. Many printing vendors cannot handle native FrameMaker files, so you
> need to create and send them a PDF of your finished doc.
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