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Acrobat Reader compatibility
 By laplace - Posted on October 23, 2002 - 11:28:25   (#3732)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 2
>Will you make the pdf printings compatible for
>the Acrobat Reader 4-5, or is this already possible?

Of course it is compatible. PDF = Portable Document Format. PDF Writer can generate PDF 1.1, PDF 1.2 (Acrobat Reader 4), PDF 1.3 (Acrobat Reader 5) compatible documents.

Congratulations, dudes !
 By GunGrave - Posted on October 22, 2002 - 16:07:18   (#3714)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 2
I was very happy to see this printer made for BeOS !
Thanks to you guys a lot !

But one question is still in the air:
Will you make the pdf printings compatible for
the Acrobat Reader 4-5, or is this already possible?

Thanks again, and continue this great work !

Re: Nice job
 By Philippe Houdoin - Posted on October 8, 2002 - 17:21:28   (#3497)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 2
> Your printer driver is simply great,
> I made a little windows program to fetch
> the PDF document and open it in acrobat,
> ready to print in the windows box.

I'm not sure to understand what's your point here?
This driver objective is to be able to generate a PDF document from any print-aware app under BeOS, not to print PDF document files...

Nice Job
 By Lanjoe9 - Posted on October 1, 2002 - 01:22:30   (#3384)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 2
(If anyone is interested, send me a mail ;)

Nice job
 By Lanjoe9 - Posted on October 1, 2002 - 01:21:35   (#3383)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 2
Your printer driver is simply great, I made a little windows program to fetch the PDF document and open it in acrobat, ready to print in the windows box.

Re: Probable install script bug.
 By Philippe Houdoin - Posted on June 12, 2002 - 07:33:45   (#1790)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 1
Yep, this one was spotted too by another reporter, and Michael have checkin the fix into CVS since.

However, I don't have found time to build
a beta2 release since, but I'll soon.

Probable install script bug.
 By procton - Posted on June 12, 2002 - 05:52:36   (#1789)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 1
Hi,

I have not gotten around to install v5.1 beta 1 until now, but
took a sneak peak at the install script.

This line in the install script puzzled me a bit, and I
suspect a script bug:

cp bookmarks/* /boot/home/config/settings/PDF\ Writer/xrefs

Should it not be:

cp xrefs/* /boot/home/config/settings/PDF\ Writer/xrefs

Thanks in advance.

Regards

/Procton

Actually...
 By Jace - Posted on June 5, 2002 - 09:26:46   (#1696)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 1
I'm just wondering if this is what caused my giant PDF problem; I'm not really asking to embed fonts, though I'm glad to hear that feature is included :)
Cheers

Re: Philippe, I have an idea...
 By laplace - Posted on June 4, 2002 - 00:14:54   (#1676)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 1
A new feature in this release allows you to do what you desire; to embed any font (if it is used in the print job) you want (see Page Setup window -> Fonts -> Embedding).

Michael

Philippe, I have an idea...
 By Jace - Posted on June 3, 2002 - 11:30:06   (#1674)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 1
Are fonts embedded automatically by PDF Writer? If so, is it possible that a system set up with Japanese support might cause PDF Writer to embed the haru fonts? They are about 3 or more MB each. Is this a valid idea?

I have my BeOS systems set up with Japanese support since I am planning on learning the language (and to read Japanese sites proper).

What printers does this support?
 By tantalic - Posted on June 2, 2002 - 14:37:50   (#1660)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 1
I must say that finally being able to create PDFs in BeOS is great! And I'm very happy to see this integrated into the OpenBeOS printing kit, as it will add a great deal of profesional level printing and digital publishing to obos (or whatever it will be called).

My question is where can I get a list of printers that support direct PDF printing? I would love to pick up a decent laser writer that will work in BeOS. Thanks again and keep up the good work, the new feature additions in this release are great!

Re: Did you guys get my file?
 By Philippe Houdoin - Posted on June 2, 2002 - 10:00:43   (#1658)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 1
Jace wrote:
> I sent that sample Gb Productive file to you but
> I don't know if you got it or reproduced the problem.

Oups, sorry about this problem. Yep, I got it.
But no, I can't reproduce it.
With Gobe 2.0.2fr and both v1.0b1 and v1.5b1, it's output a 153Kb PDF valid file (default driver options).

If you'll have this problem with latest version, maybe we should check the too huge PDF file you get?...

Re: Did you guys get my file?
 By laplace - Posted on June 1, 2002 - 13:15:35   (#1646)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 1
No. Send it to: laplace@users.sf.net

Did you guys get my file?
 By Jace - Posted on June 1, 2002 - 10:41:50   (#1643)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 1
I sent that sample Gb Productive file to you but I don't know if you got it or reproduced the problem.

Great App!
 By Jack Burton - Posted on June 1, 2002 - 02:14:37   (#1637)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.5 Beta 1
My printer just got out of ink, so it will be very useful!! :)
Great work, guys!

Re: Heh heh...
 By laplace - Posted on March 12, 2002 - 15:14:45   (#601)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.0 Beta 1
Please send it to Philippe and me.



Heh heh...
 By Jace - Posted on March 12, 2002 - 13:05:44   (#600)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.0 Beta 1
The document uses no images or fills... no graphics of any kind. Who should I send the document to?

Re: File Size Concern...
 By laplace - Posted on March 12, 2002 - 07:16:23   (#597)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.0 Beta 1
It is likely that the document uses gradient fills. Productive generates bitmaps for them when it prints the document, that could cause the large file size.


Re: File Size Concern...
 By Philippe Houdoin - Posted on March 12, 2002 - 04:10:16   (#593)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.0 Beta 1
Woa.
It's not expected to generate so large file, no.
Unless you use many images in your document.

Could you send us (PDF Writer developers team) this GoBe document, so we could trace what going wrong here.

File Size Concern
 By Jace - Posted on March 11, 2002 - 15:49:39   (#586)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.0 Beta 1
It's great to see a PDF Writer for BeOS. However, the file size on the resulting PDFs are very high. I wrote a 32k Productive document (two fonts used) and the result was 3.5 MB PDF file (at compression:none) and 2.5 MB PDF file (at compression:best). Both files did not read correctly in BePDF (first page stops rendering, and rendering is horribly slow).

Am I possibly doing something wrong or is this writer just not ready for casual use?

"Requires R5" = Requires BeOS r5 operating system
 By Philippe Houdoin - Posted on February 27, 2002 - 12:49:10   (#477)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.0 Beta 1
I'm guessing he's trying to install it under Windows!...

"You never know!"
:-)

Anyway, I've emailed him a more details message about the install process, "for BeOS" pre-requesite included.

Installation
 By Ruprect - Posted on February 27, 2002 - 10:00:48   (#475)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.0 Beta 1
Not sure what you're asking, but...

You are running the install script right? On the app page, it says:

1) Expand the zip file somewhere
2) Open the newly created folder
3) Run the Install script to install the driver

If you're having trouble with the script, open a Terminal, go to the unzipped folder, and type in the name of the install script. Should work.

pdf writer driver
 By lybush - Posted on February 27, 2002 - 09:56:17   (#474)
 Current version when comment was posted: v1.0 Beta 1
I just downloaded subject program and after unzipping found no extensions on the files. Thus, I was not able to install. What is that 'Needs R' that is along side the download? And what and where is 'R'?

Thanks,

Len

 
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