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Article #61Re: Creating PostScript File (CS4 / windows)
From: Dov Isaacs
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:49
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:49
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(1) It is definitely not preferred to create PDF from InDesign by distilling PostScript. Adobe recommends most emphatically that you create PDF via the export function in InDesign, especially to maintain live transparency, color management, tagging, etc. in the resultant PDF file. Any print service providers who tell you otherwise are either (a) very uninformed, (b) Luddites who are scared on newer technology, or (c) have ancient, coal-powered, steam-driven, obsolete RIP software that can't deal with anything beyond 1992 technology. (2) The "PostScript File" method produces a somewhat generic PostScript file that has no paper handling commands or anything that could or should be considered device-specific. Printing "to file" for a specific printer model yields PostScript that may contain significant additional PostScript to deal with the ideosynchracies of a particular device and that could account for significant differences in file sizes. Note also that options related to images (downsampling, etc.) and fonts (full fonts, subsetted fonts, etc.) can also make a tremendous difference in PostScript file size. - Dov
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