Save as Postscript

Hi,
When saving as Postscript the page size isn't respected. Is there a solution for this?
Thanks in advance

The file is created with the user's umask permissions. See "man 2 umask" for a description.
Here are some examples of how it can be used.
Hope this helps.
$ umask
0022
$ touch test1
$ umask 02
$ touch test2
$ umask 0
$ touch test3
$ ls -l test?
-rw-r--r-- 1 <user> wheel 0 Oct 18 08:55 test1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 <user> wheel 0 Oct 18 08:56 test2
-rw-rw-rw- 1 <user> wheel 0 Oct 18 08:57 test3

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Save as PostScript ... not working

Pages '09 version 4.1 (923), OS X Lion 10.7.1
I am having trouble getting a PDF suitable for use by a professional printer. Hope you can help me quickly.
In Pages I have a document that is a single page poster. The page size is set to A0 (1189 mm x 841 mm).
A few years ago, I used to be able to print a PDF/X file directly from the print dialog but all the ColorSync options seem to have gone now.
My printer can distill a postscript file so I chose Save as PostScript but this produces a file with only the bottom left A4 sized portion of the document.
Can anyone suggest how to fix the postscript problem or give me a new way to produce a PDF suitable for sharing with a professional print shop?
Thanks
Ian

Install the abracadabra ColorSync filters:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=22&highlight=pdf&mfo rum=iworktipsntrick
IMHO you are taking a huge risk using Pages for professional print, there are too many things to go wrong and just about not tools to prevent them.
Unless your A0 poster is substantially vector graphics, it will be monstrously large for a start.
Peter

Save as pdf vs save as postscript

hi,
I see a great difference in my screen between: files saved as pdf and files saved as postscript and then converted into pdf.
My question is:
Does this difference applies when printing?
In other words in order to get the best printing quality (besides of the paper, etc), do I need to save as postscript and then convert to pdf?
Thanks in advance.

That's a good point about lossless and lossy compression.
The real question becomes are you trying to convert vector into raster, or not. If you are, you do lose some information in the process, because vectors are always approximated by raster. While raster regions can have inside and outside topology that is converted into vector polygon of different topology inside and outside, you don't have direction. Vector back to raster you lose the direction of drawing of vectors if they go from point A to point B.
If you did a pure postscript print job, you'll likely gain more information than PDF to postscript or vice versa. A software called Ghostscript I've heard has a much better rendering of postscript prepress than just PDF. Though I've never tried it myself.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

Print Save as Postscript...

The page size of my document is 6 x 9. When I "Print > Save as Postscript..." the resulting PS document comes out as US Letter Size.
I can't find a way to specify the output size for PS printing/saving. Any suggestions?

The page size of my document is 6 x 9. When I "Print > Save as Postscript..." the resulting PS document comes out as US Letter Size. I can't find a way to specify the output size for PS printing/saving. Any suggestions?
Interesting, not perhaps for you, but from the point of view of technical writing. Why? Because of the difference in the printing philosophy for Mac OS (PS and raster) versus Mac OS X (PDF and raster).
In principle, in a PostScript process you have to have the device parameters as defined in the PDD PostScript Printer Definition at the point when the PostScript program is written.
The device parameters define such things as the format facilities of the device, the paper feed facilities of the device, and the colourant models of the device.
In a PDF process you do not have to have the device parameters at the point when the PDF is written, in fact you try to avoid this by writing the page description at a higher level of abstraction.
Things permitted in PostScript and EPS are prohibited in PDF, including such things as programmed screenings (possible in Photoshop) and transfer curves (possible in Photoshop).
Moreover, in so far as possible you should never (meaning never, never) write out PostScript to disk in order to convert that into PDF. Adobe Acrobat Distiller has been a dead product for a decade because PostScript does not support the intelligent profile model of the International Colour Consortium, the intelligent font model of the Unicode Consortium, or indeed transparency.
/hh

Can't print entire 11x14 PS (v 8.0) file in "Print-Save as Postscript" - Always crops to 8.5x11

MacBook Pro running OS 10.5.8
Layered CMYK file in Photoshop v 8.0 (original CS version)
Trying to save this as a .ps Postscript file so I can open up in Distiller and create PDF for 4 color printing @ 300dpi. Doc size 14x11.
In Preview, everything looks good.
When Print is selected, I get message "Image is larger than page's printable area, some clipping will occur"
Proceeding ahead and saving file as Postscript it's cropped to 8.5 x 11, thus cutting off half of original artwork.
I have: quit PS and restarted, confirmed paper size in Page Setup is set at 14x11, created a virtual PS printer... Nothing is working & I don't see anywhere there's a default page size of 8.5x11.
Also tried creating PDF file in Acrobat 6.0.1 Professional but got error message.
"Create PDF from file" >> "Could not open because it is not a supported file type"
Thanks in advance for your help.

Since Adobe PDF Printer is not available on Snow Leopard all applications that used Adobe PDF Printer to print pdfs will not be able to print pdfs.
See this link: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/509/cpsid_50981.html

Illustrator CS3 Save as Postscript Issue

Utilizing Illustrator CS3 on Mac OSX Tiger -
Unable to output Postscript file. Getting the following error message: "The Save as PDF and Save PDF as PostScript options in the Printer dialog are not supported."
However, we are able to output Postscript from same computer in Illustrator CS2 without issue. Note that in CS3 it is also prompting to re-enter the file name when saving but not in CS2.
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks!!

Are you trying to "Print" to a Postscript File?
For "Printer" choose "Adobe Postscript" and for PPD choose "AdobePDF"

Save as postscript problem

the .ps file created is getting "no access" privileges on "group" and "others".
his situation coses my backup to not backup thus files.
any way i can do postscript file directly from the print button?
like it was on classic.??

The file is created with the user's umask permissions. See "man 2 umask" for a description.
Here are some examples of how it can be used.
Hope this helps.
$ umask
0022
$ touch test1
$ umask 02
$ touch test2
$ umask 0
$ touch test3
$ ls -l test?
-rw-r--r-- 1 <user> wheel 0 Oct 18 08:55 test1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 <user> wheel 0 Oct 18 08:56 test2
-rw-rw-rw- 1 <user> wheel 0 Oct 18 08:57 test3

Can not save PDF as Postscript

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Anyone with Ideas?

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ID5.5 image dpi cut from 300 to 150 in save as ps, acrobat to pdf

When I submitted book interior to printer, they said some images were 150 dpi. I checked the ID file links, and they showed them as 300 dpi. My process to pdf was: from ID, save as postscript file, then use Acrobat Pro with the PDFx1a2001 profile to create the pdf. Any thoughts on where in this process the images would be downgraded to 150 dpi? Here is the file as ID shows it:
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Not really.
http://www1.lightningsource.com/ops/files/pod/LSI_FileCreationGuide.pdf
Take care, Mike

"Save to Adobe PDF" missing in Mac print dialog

I've just upgraded to a new machine, and the "Save to Adobe PDF" option is missing from the PDF drop-down menu in the print dialogue. I'm running Mac OS 10.8.3 and CS 6. I believe that Acrobat X is supposed to automatically install this option into the main print dialog; what can I do to get it installed if it got left out of the initial CS6 installaion?

OK thank you. I feel like I'm still not quite getting my question across. I don't think that PDF Maker is what I was using last week before I got a new machine; wasn't that the thing that showed up in the upper portion of the Print dialog, in amongst your physical printers? That is not what I was using. I was using the Save to Adobe PDF.app (an Automator app) that stays in the PDF Services folder in the Library. You access it via the PDF button in the bottom left of the Print dialog. This was using Acrobat 9 and OS 10.6.
Your description above makes it sound like when I go to that button I would get a contextual menu that lets me choose the quality of the PDF. I don't have that choice. This is the contextual menu I get under PDF in the Print dialog:
I used to have an additional entry there in the middle section called Save to Adobe PDF. That brought up a dialog with a drop down menu that showed all of the preset settings I have made for PDF creation, and I could choose my quality there, choose a location, and save. I had full control over all the settings. I just need a choice that brings up that dialog, and Save as PDF doesn't do it (it just uses the native OS PDF generator).
The second method does not work on my machine either. If I try to drag a Word doc into Acrobat it tells me it is not a supported file type, and says "To create an Adobe PDF document, go to the source application. Then print the document to Adobe PDF." this indicates to me that somewhere I should still have the ability to choose Adobe PDF rather than Mac OS PDF.
I can save to PostScript and drop the file onto Distiller -- as long as the Distiller settings are set correctly already, because it starts creating the PDF immediately with no dialog in between to make choices. I can live with that, but I would rather have my Automator workflow back to do it in one step. (sadly I don't know enough about Automator right now to easily do this myself, but maybe this is a good chance to learn.)
I know that I have seen this workflow mentioned as something that is installed along with Acrobat X but maybe people are mistaken about that and it was just left over from a previous install. I know for sure that the workflow that was working on the old machines was outdated; it was 32-bit and can't even be opened in the current version of Automator. So the old one clearly won't work any more. For now I'm going to set up a Distill folder on my desktop with the settings I use most often, and direct my PS files there.
Thanks for the detailed reply even though I can't quite make it all work!

Secured PDF Documents get silently printed if you choose "Save as Postscrip

I was editing one of those secured Adobe Acrobat files (the kind that you can't save, only print). I tried saving the file, acrobat complained that you have to print, don't save. So I tried "Save as PDF" from the print dialog in Leopard. The printer dialog complained that you have to save the file first. So I tried the next option down the list, Save as Postscript. Acrobat complained again about saving first. Then I tried Send as Fax (to possible get at the TIFF file) and that didn't work so I opened the console and to my amazement the Save as Postscript sent the file to a network printer (at work, I was at home, it had confidential info). I think the default option for printing is "Use Last Printer" which is annoying, it should use the default that was defined in Tiger before I upgraded!!
I don't know who's bug it is, but I would've NEVER known/expected that it was actually sitting on a printer if I didn't check the console log (I've since enabled Show completed jobs).
Save as... should never send the job to the PRINTER!

sadmac5150 wrote:
I think the default option for printing is "Use Last Printer" which is annoying, it should use the default that was defined in Tiger before I upgraded!!
That's not unreasonable, but the mechanism of determining the default printer has changed drastically since Tiger; it used to be in Printer Setup Utility, but that app doesn't exist anymore, and this was moved to the Preferences.
I don't know who's bug it is, but I would've NEVER known/expected that it was actually sitting on a printer if I didn't check the console log (I've since enabled Show completed jobs).
Save as... should never send the job to the PRINTER!
You're right, this is bad, and you should send feedback to Apple and/or Adobe with a detailed set of steps on how to reproduce this problem.

Dialog box size when saving a postscript file CS5 is huge.

When i save a postscript file, the dialog box that allows me no navigate to the place I wish to save my file is huge. About 10 inches wide and 3 inches high.
I have tried to resize this box, expecting that the last used dimensions would be remembered the next time I entered this box but I get the same huge overly wide and not deep enough box.
I hate resizing this box so I can see my sidebar. This never happened in CS3. CS3 honored the box as I sized it every time I saved.
What is wrong with CS5?
Where do I change this behavior.

Replacing preferences did not help. System updates did not resolve this behavior.
The other behavior I hate is when I open a document the application window enlarges to the maximum area on my monitor. The application window occupies the left edge to the dock on the right, just below the menu bar at top to the very bottom edge of the monitor.
Most other applications remember what the last window size of a document was when I saved and closed it.
What I end up doing EVERY TIME I OPEN A FILE is shortening the window on the right and bottom so I do not have my tool windows covering my document. I like Static tools, not auto hide.
As long as I am griping I'd like to know how to turn off the auto resize of the document view when I enlarge or reduce my window. I want the document to remain a constant size UNTIL I DECIDE to resize it.

Saving a postscript from Indesign 3

Hi
I'm trying to save a postscript through the print menu using acrobat 9 as the printer. I get a box come up which says "the save pdf and save as pdf postscript options are not supported. I'm using the same method i have in the past on another machine in CS2. I'm using leopard and not connected to any printers. I tried adding one ( so i could just make .ps files through it but was unable to (as machine just looks for printers).
Any suggestions very welcome.
Thanks

>Has nothing to do with Intel Macs.
I think it actually does. If one attempts to save a PostScript file using the OS (
i.e., by pressing the "Printer ..." button in the lower left of the InDesign Print dialog box, and then selecting "Save as PostScript..." from the "PDF" menu in the lower left of the Mac OS X Print dialog box), the process will fail on an Intel Mac as described by RachelE. It will succeed on a PPC Mac.
So the probable solution is to save the PostScript file using InDesign itself rather than the OS. To do this, select "PostScript® File" in the "Printer" popup menu at the top of the InDesign Print dialog box. This will enable the "PPD" popup menu where you can select the PPD you want to use.
However there is one weakness in this mechanism. You cannot access the complete range of PPD options in the InDesign print dialog box, only the ones that InDesign displays. So, if you do not need to access those "extra" PPD options, this will work for you, and will probably produce more reliable PostScript in any case. If you do need to modify those other PPD options, though, you are out of luck when using an Intel Mac, AFAIK.

PDF Export Problems @ Printers - Save Methods?

I am working on a brochure that is mostly white text on black, with a few full colour pictures. There are also some manufacturer's logos that I inverted in PS to make them white on black too, all in CMYK mode in PS. Though there were still black boxes around the logo's they were going on the black background so I though I would be safe... I tried the "instant alpha" tool in Pages but the pictures are too low-res for this method to work effectively (it rounded all the points and made the images).
For the first proof I used the file>export>PDF>best method, and all looked good on my computer but the colours that were produced from the print shop (The UPS Store) looked appalling. Contrast was great on all the white on black text, but the colours were completely off. (however, there were no black boxes around the logos I was worried about, so that was a plus)
I did a fairly thorough web search of other print methods, and came across the file>print>pdf>save as postscript method that involved using Adobe Distiller to create the PDF rather than Pages. After getting a proof back from the print shop today I was pleased to see that the colours now appeared accurate on the proof but the black on black box problem around the logos I used now appeared and looked awful.
How do I fix? I'm frustrated and this matter is very time sensitive as there is supposed to be over 10,000 copies of this brochure printed by the weekend. Thanks in advance. : )

a brochure that is mostly white text on black, with a few full colour pictures. There are also some manufacturer's logos that I inverted to make them white on black too, all in CMYK mode in PS ... the colours were completely off.
The objects in the page are not colour managed coherently and correctly from the start. For instance, if you have Photoshop set up to disregard embedded ICC profiles, it will assign a default ICC profile for the colourant model of the object (a type PRTR Printer profile with data space CMYK for a CMYK colourant model object, and so forth), but it will not save out that object with the profile it assigned. This way you get what in the graphics model becomes 'deviceColor' meaning that the colourants are rendered by the numbers as there is no definition of the colours you intend them to form in the printing condition.
Classical case is of a graphic designer who misconfigures or disables colour management in a page layout application, places deviceColor objects, generates PostScript or PDF, and wonders why the gray balance, the tonal range, the highlight detail, the shadow detail - is different in each and every tonal image in the page. Always, always, always unify the colour management for the page. Capture and correct in a large gamut RGB working space. Place three component RGB with correctly embedded source ICC RGB profile in pagination, and convert into one and only one destination ICC CMYK profile for the intended printing condition.
The way you are working would produce similar problems in QuarkXPress and InDesign - it would not matter what make and model of page layout application you picked.
Hope this helps,
Henrik Holmegaard

What's the benefit of PostScript in saving file?

When we ⌘ + P (Command + P), on PDF button, there are several Options on saving file.
Save as PDF...
Save as PostScript... <--- What is this for? What benefit?
Fax PDF... <--- What is this anyway?
Mail PDF <--- What about this?
Save as PDF-X <---- Somebody please tell me what this is?
Save PDF to iPhoto
Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder

Save as PostScript... <--- What is this for? What benefit? </div>
http://bima.astro.umd.edu/wip/manual/node18.html
Fax PDF... <--- What is this anyway?</div>
Obviously to save a PDF of your file and fax it.
Mail PDF <--- What about this?</div>
To save a PDF and email it
Save as PDF-X <---- Somebody please tell me what this is?</div>
Why don't you just do a simple Google search and answer your question?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/X

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