Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!usenetcore.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:35:08 -0500 From: Chris Newman Subject: Re: PDF generation Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:35:04 +0100 Message-ID: <52d787f7b3cvjazz@waitrose.com> References: <12e76ed552.Broadband@thomas.smith57.virginmedia.com> <52d5730784alan_calder@o2.co.uk> User-Agent: Pluto/3.04e (RISC-OS/4.39) NewsHound/v1.52-32 Organization: None Lines: 29 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-ypO2CiRlF90dzMOg1Yro7UQeNtk0fACvcxtp9qUxkkZpQ4pRwOoSKnMlZLEusjhbBaXc0UBQkaJyURf!w1aTYg/6oA/xgReIFtMPsxpiinOYjUTZK8oObi1PonigQbtFBhippmeTxNxGIOIBYg6dsgVyjJM= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2091 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:6754 In article <52d5730784alan_calder@o2.co.uk>, Alan Calder wrote: > In article <12e76ed552.Broadband@thomas.smith57.virginmedia.com>, > T M Smith wrote: > > Hi group > > I want to create a document on my Iyo that can be read on a PC. > > I believe a PDF document should do the trick. > > The doc. will contain diagrams and text and I am using Easiwriter and > > draw. > > I have created a very brief test document and tried to save it as PDF > > but and error box tells me I should create a PDF printer. > > From PrintDefs I have put PoScript2 on the icon bar but I am still > > unable to save a PDF file. > > What should I be doing? > Martin Wurthner's really the guy to answer this but until he comes along.. > What version of Easiwriter are you using? With Easiwriter 9.01 I don't > appear to need an active Postscript printer. It just produces a PDF no > problem from the Save dialogue. When saving from Techwriter 9.01 as PDF, I'm asked to initialise a PostScript printer driver if it's not active. Do I have something set incorrectly. Regards, -- Chris Newman