Re: The Facts (WAS: Distiller Trivia (WAS RE: Frame 6 files only-- distilling in Black and White - help!))

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

In short, a qualified "yes!"

        - Dov

At 3/21/2002 10:38 AM, Lee, Ivan wrote:
>This has been a very enlightnening thread.  One thing I'd like
>clarified.  A "yes" or "no" answer will suffice.  In the past I had
>onced asked why using "Save As" was wrong if the resulting PDF looked
>fine and acted fine.  (We don't Save As anymore, by the way).  Most of
>the standard reasons came up.  But this is the first time I've heard
>that when you print to a printer driver instance other than Distiller,
>the PDF inherits the limitations of that printer (imageable areas, paper
>size, color, etc.).  
>
>So as I understand it now, when we used "Save As," it meant that
>whatever driver instance it was printing to (which was most likely our
>physical printer's driver instance), the PDF inherited our physical
>printer's limitations?  Is this correct - and is this what you mean when
>a PDF is device dependent...that the PDF will print correctly when
>hardcopy printed on our printer, but may not necessarily come out
>correct if printed to a different physical printer?
>
>When FM 7 comes out with the new and improved "Save As" function,
>this'll all be moot, but I'd like to know all the same.  Much thanks for
>all the info.
>
>Ivan Lee
>Senior Technical Writer
>Bank of Hawaii


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