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>That is how I had to send it -- ps. Of course, it had to be completely perfect;
>they could not change anything in the file (they didn't have Frame).
>Occasionally, even the PS would have strange artifacts not visable in the
>FrameMaker version.
I hope you don't mind some small corrections: editors for
postscript do exist. You can even edit postscript files by hand,
if you know enough - but this operation is definitely NOT for the
faint-hearted. However, it's not surprising that a print house
wouldn't want to bother.
Also, many houses work from Acrobat files, for which some editing
tools are also available.
>We had to install a special printer driver the printing house gave us. That was
>five years ago.
If you're sending a postscript file, any postscript printer
driver will do. However, Docutech houses encourage the use of the
standard drivers, probably because they know what quirks to
expect.
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Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
Contributing Editor, Maximum Linux
bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com | Tel: 604.421.7189
"Sing Oak and Ash and Thorn,
All on a Midsummer's Morn,
Surely we sing of no little thing,
In Oak and Ash and Thorn!"
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