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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Sep 20, 2000 12:43 am Subject: Re: Acrobat converts .ps files into .pdf files | ||||||||
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SignWriting List September 19, 2000 5:30pm Hello Everyone! I just want to thank all of you for your support and good ideas! ;-) Have you ever had a day when you spend the ENTIRE day on your computer trying to get something to work, and it STILL isn't working at 5:00 pm?!! That was the kind of day I had today! (grin ;-) I can tell you where I am at the moment.... I installed Adobe Acrobat 4.0 on my Windows computer, and from the Adobe CD-ROM, I installed Adobe's Postscript Driver called: "Generic Postscript Printer". And I chose the option: FILE: Creates a File on Disk So the Generic Postscript Printer is my default and it is printing to a postscript file on disk. And it works beautifully with files that are NOT SignWriter (smile ;-) I can take any text document in Windows, and drag it on top of the Generic Postscript Printer icon, and the text document is converted quickly to a .ps file (a postscript file). Then I double-click on the ..ps file, and it opens Acrobat Distiller immediately and presto - a great .pdf file! However, if you drag an .SGN file on top of the Generic Postscript Printer icon, you get a message saying that there is no program associated with that kind of file and then it gives instructions on how to make SignWriter acknowledged, but everytime I went through different steps it refused to accept it. So I called Adobe Tech Support, and the technician I talked to thought that all of you are 100% correct - that another shareware program like prn2 is necessary in our case. So I downloaded the shareware - thanks sooooo much Angus! Without you, we would be nowhere....I am truly grateful - However, I still have not been able to get it to work yet...but that is just me, and has nothing to do with your advice or the prn2file shareware....I am a true beginner when it comes to some parts of MS-DOS...I have never created an autoexec.bat file in my life (we Mac people are spoiled) - but there is always a first time - ha! And that will have to be tonight or tomorrow, as I am under pressure to get this to work. At the moment, I tell SignWriter to print, and it prints, but then the resulting file is nowhere to be found. When I open prn2file.com...it tells me it is set up for LPT1...but Jerry and Stefan used LPT2...so I have to figure it out some more - I don't know how to change it to LPT2 - that is how MS-DOS illiterate I am! If anyone thought I knew a lot about computers - well think again - ha! Glad to hear, Stuart, that you received the donated materials! Hope you enjoy teaching SignWriting - Have a great evening everyone - -- Val ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton Visit the SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org | ||||||||
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