AboutGlen Demers Expertise I am a Prepress Technician for Best Printing Online and can answer any question about
preparing your PageMaker document for print.
Experience 20 years working in prepress
Prepress technician for Best Printing Online
Have used Pagemaker since version 3.0 and realize there are still some people using it.
Education/Credentials Some college training in printing and have attended numerous seminars.
Question Glen,
For some time I have been able to load a suitable PS driver and together with a recommended ppd have created PS files (for later distilling to PDF), having had Microsoft XP on my machine. I have now 'upgraded' to Microsoft Vista, but now am unable to find a PS printer which can create a PS file. Is this still possible? It is not possible to write direct to PDF from Pagemaker as the files will going to a commercial printer (in the U.K.) who requires specific distiller settings.
Your help will be most appreciated.
Dave
Answer Hi Dave,
I'm sorry but I have not had the opportunity to work with Vista, but I do know that Micro$oft has created their own version of the pdf and since Adobe has dropped all support of PageMaker in favor of InDesign there is very little chance of a patch to make this work on PageMaker.
Is there no PDF or Acrobat printer available?
I'm sorry, but from everything I've heard it is not a good idea to try to run PageMaker on Vista
Glen Demers
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
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