Can I adjust PDF resolution when using inbuilt in OSX?

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Groucho - 20 Mar 2005 14:24 GMT

Using Panther 10.3

Printing a doc in Quark 6 to PDF using the inbuilt PDF print thing.

Can I alter the res to Screen, Print like in Acrobat?

Thanks

Matt

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kennyNOSP@kannicomm.com.au - 20 Mar 2005 14:30 GMT

> Using Panther 10.3
>
> Printing a doc in Quark 6 to PDF using the inbuilt PDF print thing.
>
> Can I alter the res to Screen, Print like in Acrobat?

Printing to pdf in OSX seems like a dog to me.

I've found I have to go into Classic, print to postscript, then open the
.ps file in OSX Preview and then save as .pdf.

It works, but is certainly inelegant...

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groucho@mockfrog.com - 20 Mar 2005 14:35 GMT

Thanks -- will give it a go.
--Matt

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Nigel McMillan - 22 Mar 2005 02:13 GMT

> Using Panther 10.3
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> If emailing to me, please use webmaster@REMOVENOSPAM.webmaster.com.au

No - it seems to just give you a very high resolution. Probably some issue
with Adobe.
Nigel

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ocean11 - 22 Mar 2005 15:08 GMT

> Using Panther 10.3
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> If emailing to me, please use webmaster@REMOVENOSPAM.webmaster.com.au

Rather than use the print dialogue box, go to file/export/layout as pdf.
In the resulting dialogue box click "options", from there you can set
compression to jpg, downsampling dpi, bleed etc. This works well in
Quark 6.5, but I recall 6.0 was a problem. Its a free upgrade to 6.5
anyway.

hope this helps

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groucho@mockfrog.com - 24 Mar 2005 11:41 GMT

Well this hits the spot!

Thanks a lot

Works in Quark 6 a treat

--Matt

(webmaster@NOSPAMmockfrog.com.au)

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Can I adjust PDF resolution when using inbuilt in OSX?