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A solution at last for PDF printing
After struggling for years while producing an online journal for a client to get PDF files printed which are accurate and with all the Greek and Eastern European characters it uses, I have now discovered a PDF driver which does the job, rather than substituting an entirely different character or a box in place of the character required. The extended character set is a minefield, and even characters which display and print perfectly in Word come into Pagemaker garbled or not present. So first part of the struggle is to get those characters into the page, using a combination of alphanumeric keypad, font choices and dogged perseverance. Then, when they are all securely located, there's the next trial, trying to get the thing output to PDF without them all changing. I often have had to use different drivers for different characters, printing pages on their own, and then stitching them together into a combination pdf, not an ideal solution, and taking several times as long. Now, pdfFactory by Fineprint http://www.fineprint.com/index.html does the trick; printing flawlessly all characters in the original file, and doing it faster than any of the rival drivers around including Acrobat's own Distiller. Using a trial version showed that it was capable, but it prints a copyright line along the bottom of the page, so I have now purchased a registered copy for $49.99 or shall we say $50, which is just £25 and a bargain just for the time it will save me. With some very big companies buying thousands of copies for their organisation, and with a long list of thank you letters from satisfied clients, it looked promising, but trialing was needed to see it could cope with the problems I was beset with, and it did. I don't often recommend products, but in this case, if you need a dependable PDF driver you couldn't do better than pdfFactory, actually worth paying money for, which can't be said about a lot of much higher priced software, which always seems to be in beta. |
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