Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:17:02 -0400
From: Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Keith
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 11:50:13 PM, WSFA members wrote:

> Jim Kling wrote:

>> And in the interest of passing on experience to next year's program
>> book editor, I would suggest being very careful with using Adobe
>> PageMaker or I suppose any other program. Go to the printer well in
>> advance of your printing day and make sure they can open and print a
>> file using that program. I received assurances over the phone on two
>> separate occasions that the printer could handle PageMaker files.
>> When the day came, they couldn't, and I spent a day and a half going
>> to four different local printers before I discovered one that could
>> print the thing out.

> I'd think that you'd want to deliver it to the printer in Postscript or
> PDF format.  Or am I missing something?  Does the printer perhaps have
> to screw around with it?

My version of PageMaker (6.5) saved files as a file type called 'pagemaker publication' -- the printer
informed me that no such thing existed, and they needed it in pdf or some other file type that I don't
remember (possibly postscript). I went home and found that 6.5 had no other saving options, and it wasn't
until I eventually took it to Kinko's that I was able to get a printout (Murphy's Law ensured that my own
printer wasn't working). Possibly things are better with new versions of PM.

Another printer said they could open the file but couldn't print it properly, something to do with the images.

--
Jim Kling
science writer
Rockville, MD
http://nasw.org/users/jkling