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Started by Brett_McCarthy
Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:47
how to produce pdf from prublisher
Author: Brett_McCarthy
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:47
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:47
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The MS Publisher Help and adobe doco seem to indicate that Distiller can be used to produce pdf files from MS Publisher... My question is, how do I get Distiller? The only products I can see to buy it are Server versions for $5,000 or more... Isn't there a single user product or add in available. I can't see if it is part of Acrobat Pro or Creative suite... Cheers Brett
Re: how to produce pdf from prublisher
Author: Dov Isaacs
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:58
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:58
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Distiller is part of Adobe Acrobat 6 Standard and Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional. And Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional is a component of the Adobe Creative Suite Premium. - Dov
Re: how to produce pdf from prublisher
Author: Brett_McCarthy
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:42
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:42
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thanks dov
Re: how to produce pdf from prublisher
Author: Jon_Bessant
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:53
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:53
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Also - if you can, get hold of Publisher 2003 .. this can now create output in composite CMYK and spot colour. Jon
Re: how to produce pdf from prublisher
Author: Brett_McCarthy
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:52
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:52
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thanks, I've got this... It looks like I can get Publisher to do the whole 'catalog from a database' thing that I am trying to achieve... it's just that I figured that adobe would do it better... perhaps I am wrong? Brett
Re: how to produce pdf from prublisher
Author: Aandi_Inston
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:02
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:02
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>It looks like I can get Publisher to do the whole 'catalog from a database' thing that I am trying to achieve... it's just that I figured that adobe would do it better... If by Adobe you mean Acrobat, they aren't in any sense competitors. You use Publisher to design pages (or some other product), you use Acrobat to make the PDF (by printing to PDF). Aandi Inston
Re: how to produce pdf from prublisher
Author: Brett_McCarthy
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:40
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:40
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Thanks Aandi I had started looking at adobe products as a way to do this and was beginning to get the impression I could use various adobe products for the whole thing. It looks like ADBC or Indesign-datamerge can get at the data, then I needed to find an adobe product to create the brochure using templates and allow the layout changes/formatting. Then create the pdf per above... However, I can't seem to work out what adobe product(s) to use. So unless I can work this out, I may end up sticking with MS publisher catalog merge and acrobat 6 standard to write the pdf. Cheers Brett
Re: how to produce pdf from prublisher
Author: Aandi_Inston
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:12
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:12
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>I had started looking at adobe products as a way to do this and was beginning to get the impression I could use various adobe products for the whole thing. Ah, that's (probably) true. Though database publishing is a fairly specialist area, and if that is the main emphasis it may be worth looking for specialist tools. For instance there is (or was) a Ventura Database publisher. Or... > >It looks like ADBC or Indesign-datamerge can get at the data, then I needed to find an adobe product to create the brochure using templates and allow the layout changes/formatting. If merging in InDesign, you would need, and could use, InDesign. If merging in Acrobat (doesn't ADBC imply Acrobat?), you would need Acrobat Professional PLUS something for the original design - which would be purely visual and could be InDesign, Publisher etc. Then create the pdf per above... > acrobat 6 standard to write the pdf. There's no ability to create processes with ADBC in Acrobat Standard, though it supports it in scripts made with Professional. Aandi Inston
Re: how to produce pdf from prublisher
Author: Brett_McCarthy
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:50
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:50
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thanks again aandi... it's all getting a bit clearer now...
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