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Subject:Re: Viso PDFs look poor -- Long From:Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> Date:Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:34:20 -0500
You're absolutely correct. If you have Acrobat Standard or
Professional, there is absolutely no (valid) reason for using any
printer driver other than the one that comes with Acrobat. To do so
will introduce issues you may or may not know about until it is too
late.
On 1/14/06, Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I have to disagree with the advice to use the printer driver for some
> physical printer when creating PDF. There is no legitimate reason
> to use any driver other than Adobe's own PDF-specific printer driver,
> which is installed by default when you install the Adobe Acrobat tool
> suite (either Standard or Professional). This printer driver has had
> various names in older versions of Acrobat, but in current versions it
> is named Adobe PDF.
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