About Michael Jahn Expertise Any and all questions related to creating and modifying PDF files for use in prepress and printing environments.
Experience After being a director of a prepress company, I was involved in development and was product manager to several prepress products related to PDF creation, production and submission to high end printing environments.
Organizations PODi, IPA, Acrobat Users Group, (and was technical director of SGAUA - the Scitex Graphic Arts User Association - what we used to call the Floor Top Publishing systems back in the 80's!
Education/Credentials BS in Biomedical communications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors AGFA's PDF Evangelist - was honored to receive, of behalf of AGFA, an award for shipping the 1st PostScript 3 RIP (AGFA Taipan) from Adobe
Past/Present Clients I have been a consultant to many developers. SGAUA (Scitex), 4-Sight, AGFA, Enfocus, Pantone, and currently, ELAN GMK
Expert: Michael Jahn Date: 5/2/2007 Subject: Converting large format Quark 4 document to PDF
Question Hi, hope you can help. I've created a document in Quark 4 that is a meter square (it's an outdoor sign). I've tried to PDF it through distiller but when I look at the preview it is either blank or not positioned on the page. I set the print size through the postscript custom settings, but it doesn't seem to work! Any advice gratefully received.
Thanks
Anne
Answer I would create the Quark XPress document as a 4 inch by 4 inch document and simply have the printer scale it when they output it - but if you need Quark to output a file that has bigger dimensions than Quark can communicate to Distiller, you need a different PPD - this is a Quark issue - go to the printer who will be making the sign and ask them for the PPD to use with Quark - what is happening is that Quark is painting the design on a smaller page size than you need, and Distiller is simply cropping it exactly as instructed in the PostScript stream. Quark has fixed this in later versions - so, just make the design fit on a page size that is available and ask the person outputting it to scale it.
