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 I just bought a usb floppy drive and installed a copy of pagemaker 5.0 which i own onto a windows xp machine. i had this program installed on a 486 years ago and to teach myself the program i duplicated the front page of the Boston Globe. I still have this document on my present computer as a pdf. I could have sworn I made the pdf in pagemaker, but now cannot figure out how I did it. I really want to be able to save pm5 documents as pdf. Any ideas? thanks in advance for responding.
Answer Hi David,
PageMaker will save a postscript file (.ps). In the print dialog box select save to file. You have to then distill this into a pdf using Adobe Acrobat distiller.
Years ago PageMaker shipped with Distiller 3, I'm not sure if this was with version 5 or 4, but you have to have Distiller in order to create pdf files out of PageMaker.
Hope this helps,
Glen Demers
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
www.bestprintingonline.com
