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Conversion

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Converting documents to PDF is easy as printing documents. In fact, a PDF is in most cases a image of a virtual printing process. This means that to create a PDF you proceed with the first steps of the normal printing process, and then go to a postcript-to-PDF conversion step. The hole process is described below:

1. Initially, you create and edit normally your document. This may be in a text document editor, such as Word, in a graphical application, such as Corel Draw, or in any other application, such as database clients, ERP, etc. Is correct to conclude that your PDF source may be a EIS output or any data report.

2. Once you have made the document in its original format, you must print it using a postscript driver. This driver maybe a especifically PDF maker installed one ore it maybe a gereric postscript driver. You can get a generic postscript driver at Adobe. Alternatively, you can install a postscript printer driver that comes with your OS. In Windows, generally, if you pick up a Laser printer driver such as Apple Color LW 12/660 PS you will have good results. While installing the driver, setup the printer port to "File", so you have access to the postscript output file.

Remember that all settings that you make for paper printing, such as orientation, margins, fonts and zoom will reflect in your final PDF. Instead of printing out in a printer, you will be prompted to save a postscript file. Select a folder of your preference and give the file the .PS extension (as this is not mandatory, it will make easier the last step of the conversion.

3. Now the postscript must be converted to PDF. If you have Acrobat installed, you may have a software product called "Distiller". This is a ps-to-pdf converter. To convert your postscript file to a PDF, just launch Distiller and drag-and-drop your file into Distiller's window.

If you don't have Acrobat installed, you may use another ps-to-pdf converter. A good choice is to install Ghostscript. You can get Ghostscript from Sourceforge. Be sure to select the right download for your OS. Once installed Ghostscript, you may convert your document with the command

gswin32c.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -q -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile="destination" -c save pop -f "source"

where "destination" is your destination file, which must preserve the quotas, and "source" is your source postscript file.


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