[zakmac]

Does anyone have any tips for making multi-page PDFs from Quark 6.1?

I see that you can either export directly to PDF or generate a PostScript file which you can run through Distiller. What are the advantages/disadvanteges of each solution?

Your thoughts are much appreciated.

[eyevaan]

okay, here are my thoughts and I make PDFs in all versions of Quark.
Q6 has been a nightmare. I only use the postscript/distiller workflow. I know there are lots o peeps who advocate the save right out of Quark. I don't - -

Simply put, you can't control the distilling. If you are trying to make the best PDF you can, you need to be able to play with the settings at times [never recompress JPEGs - they don't play well with others].

Quark will not pick up your favorite distiller options [a good idea - perhaps in Quark 15 they will finally think of that one] so you can't set a 'perfect' distiller option and then have the save give you the results you are looking for.

Use the watched folders instead, this lets you create options you want, you create the PS file and distiller takes over from there.

Be sure to have the Acrobat Driver for Panther installed in your Library/printers/ppds/contents/resources/en.lproj folder. It is called, "ADPDF6-Panther.PPD" and is available from Adobe.

Select Adobe Acrobat as the printer type, so you don't get locked in page size and you can create whatever size you want.

[art_director]

Originally posted by eyevaan:
Quark will not pick up your favorite distiller options [a good idea - perhaps in Quark 15 they will finally think of that one] so you can't set a 'perfect' distiller option and then have the save give you the results you are looking for.

they don't have this slated for release until quark v.22,876.

[eyevaan]

Originally posted by art_director:
they don't have this slated for release until quark v.22,876.

HA! but that will only be the beta...

lol

[lobstr]

Q6 pdfs are huuuuuuuuuge. I've been printing to a ps file, then making a pdf with distiller.