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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:41:18 -0500
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- Subject: print to postscript from PM
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- Does anyone know how to save a booked document in PageMaker
- 4.2a as a single Postscript file?
-
- Here's why I need to know:
-
- Our campus recently acquired a Xerox DocuTech Production
- Publisher. The output is very crisp and the turn-around time is
- slightly quicker than taking camera-ready copy down to graphic
- arts. All we have to do now when we want to send copy from the
- Macintosh to graphic arts is to select the graphics arts printer from
- the AppleTalk zone in the chooser. The only problem is that the
- DocuTech does not like to print a bunch of files together as one
- printing job. For example, when using Microsoft Word, we save
- each chapter of a manual as an individual file and then use the "file
- series" option to print the files in order; but, alas, the DocuTech
- can't seem to recognize our file series to print all the documents as
- one job. Graphic arts has told us to put all the files together into
- one whopping file, which of course is a headache with copying and
- pasting. But that's been what we've been doing.
-
- We have a similar problem with PageMaker 4.2a. We save
- individual sections of our newsletter as separate PageMaker files
- and then use the "Book" function to print. We thought perhaps we
- could save our "booked" document as a "print postscript to disk"
- file that we could FTP to the DocuTech--that way we wouldn't
- have to cut and paste all the sections into one huge file to send
- over. But we can"t get the "print PostScript to disk" box (where it
- allows you to select "Normal" or "EPS," etc. under
- Print:PostScript) to turn on when we have the "print entire book"
- option checked under the Print menu. So, we then tried the Option-
- Print command, which brought up a menu that allowed us to both
- select the "print entire book" option as well as the "Destination:
- PostScript file" option. Then we clicked on Print--and, presto,
- PageMaker started saving the document as a postscript file. That is,
- it started to, but it couldn't finish the job. We got an error message
- every time we tried to print to disk and wound up with a postscript
- document that was only about 30K in size, obviously too small to
- have saved the complete booked document in postscript. What did
- we do wrong?
-
- Thanks for any help
- Beth Walker
- Assistant Editor
- University of Tennessee Computing Center Newsletter
- bawalker@utkvx.utk.edu
-