Printing A Postscript File = HUGE FILE SIZE???

[ElijahBaley]

Hi

I have been asked to produce a postscript file on a Apple Mac from a Quark document, the original Quark doc is about 5MB and what I am doing is to select a Adobe PS printer driver and then print to a vitual (distiller) printer

the process fails as I am very short on disk space but the stillborn PS file is already 127MB ???

Is there a better way to produce a PS file, is there anything that I need to be aware of?

Thanks for your comments,


Graham
"r tape loading error"

 

[derren]

Welcome to the magical world of postscript! Why do you think that adobe create PDF, the winzip of the postscript world?

PS files are great big, whopping huge files, and they need to be to create good quality printed documents. I am assuming that unless the person who has asked you to supply postscript is a pervert you are creating postscript for typesetting output to a printing company. Most printers these days accept PDFs (unless they still think that hot metal is the cutting edge of typesetting!), but it is clear that your problem is disc space, and the ps needs to be created to distill anyway.

Find more disc space. You can compromise the quality of the Postscript file, but if it is going to a printer then it will be sent right back to you. Move a large folder off your machine, burn stuff onto a cd, anything, but don't try to make the postscript smaller. Derren
[Mediocre talent - spread really thin]

 

[ElijahBaley]

Thanks Derren

This was a perverted request handed from a client to a
senior manager.

"Can we have a PDF and a editable source file"

yeah - here you go, here's a PDF and the Quark file

"Oh ere we haven't got Quark can we have it in a postscript file"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I know this is nonsense and tried to explain to my boss, but I always tend to come a cropper whenever a mention of postscript is made, so I had no choice but to attempt it but, alas we could not do it as our old Mac really is making its last stand.

Thanks for the info - I get the picture, do not compromise a postscript file!

Cheers

Graham
"r tape loading error"