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Subject:Re: HTML to PDF conversion From:"Townsend, Emru" <etownsend -at- POSITRON -dot- QC -dot- CA> Date:Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:11:19 -0500
You can still use Distiller. Set up a watched folder, configure PrintSmart
to print to a Postscript file, and throw all said files into the watched
folder. Distiller will convert them all to PDF.
Emru Townsend
Technical Communications Wiseguy - Product Integration
Positron Public Safety Systems Inc.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
e-mail: etownsend -at- positron -dot- qc -dot- ca
My words are my own. Confuse them with my employer's at your own risk.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Burns [SMTP:BillDB -at- ILE -dot- COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 4:05 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: HTML to PDF conversion
>
> That said, if your files are linked and you want to preserve the
> hierarchy,
> you might be able to use HP Web PrintSmart to print the first page and all
> linked pages en masse. If you print to PDFWriter, you'll avoid the step of
> distilling, but the quality will probably not be too good. I'd still print
> to PS and distill. However, you'll have no links since the driver has no
> way
> of capturing that data and sending it to the distiller. I could be wrong
> about this last point, but I'm pretty sure this is the case.
>
>
