wnbrandt Posted December 20, 2001 Share Posted December 20, 2001 It seems that under OSX when you want to save a file as a PDF you can not set the page size. You have to use one already set by your print driver. Can anyone recommend a work around or a free driver that can do 24x36? Quote Link to comment
sicily80 Posted December 21, 2001 Share Posted December 21, 2001 i had a previous thread on saving pdfs in os x....i wasn't even able to do it at all.... is saving the page size the only problem you have? Quote Link to comment
MikeB Posted December 21, 2001 Share Posted December 21, 2001 I use the PPD from my HP 455 Ca and add it as a printer from the Print Manager. It allows me to set anything up to an E size sheet. You may be able to get the PPD from HP, I don't know. But, I have had no trouble writing PDF's or Postscript files in OS 10.1.1 except it wont display pages in land scape mode. It always reverts to portrate in the PDF Quote Link to comment
TiTaNiuM sAMuRai Posted December 21, 2001 Share Posted December 21, 2001 HP is notorious for poor support of its devices under MacOS. We have a DesignJet 500 PS for which we needed a driver from Microspot in order to work reliably in VW 8.52 under OS9. OSX.1 doesn't list this plotter in its driver list, and the ppd we have still doesn't seem to allow the Print Centre to connect to the plotter. What DOES still work, to some extent, is the output to a postscript file, for large sheets. Only one or two of our workstations are running OSX, while the plotter's terminal is still on OS9. If you have a similar setup, or if you can start up your plotter's computer -- be it a separate machine or not -- in OS9, you can plot to a file in OSX, then plot that file in OS9. HP currently has no plans for supporting a number of its plotters under OSX, but a reply from customer service at Microspot assured me that it would be releasing a number of HP drivers for OSX in January (2002). Quote Link to comment
TiTaNiuM sAMuRai Posted December 21, 2001 Share Posted December 21, 2001 ...sorry... you wanted pdfs, right? Although the ppd doesn't seem to work for direct plotting, it appears to offer all the output options, whether we're outputting to postscript OR pdf. Quote Link to comment
Donald Wardlaw Posted December 23, 2001 Share Posted December 23, 2001 My limited experience with the system generated pdf's is that they are not as top notch, quality wise, as Adobe's method. Last week Adobe introduced a carbonized version of Acrobat (5.0.5, free download if you are already using v.5). I hope this will give us the functionality we used to have. Donald Quote Link to comment
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