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Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing?

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On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:16:06 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote :


>> Your instincts seem right as in the "olden days", it was hard to "create"
>> or "modify" PDFs, especially when we often started, in those days, with PS.
>> 
>> This is well before "Adobe Acrobat" meant also the reader.
>> I don't even recall if the reader existed in those days - probably not.
>> 
>> Also, the Adobe Acrobat (writer) always came with the PS-to-PDF Distiller.
> 
> Ah yes - the distiller. The pdf995 "printer" driver requires that to be
> fetched separately, for what I think are (or maybe were?) licencing
> reasons; at least one other of the PDF "printers" is the same.

In the olden days, there was just PostScript. Not PDF. 
Then PDF came along. 

Funny story: I tried to get my company IT department to "support" it, but
they refused, saying literally they didn't want to support another editing
format. So I supported it for my users in my department on my own.

a. I had clueless secretaries on the mac using MS Office.
b. I had semi-clueless managers on Windows using MS Office.
c. I had smart engineers on RedHat with dual-boot expensive Thinkpads.

I needed them to share documents in almost real time.

A. So I set up Samba on a SunOS machine (later Solaris).
B. I added Columbia AppleTalk Protocol (aka CAP).
C. Windows already had CIFs/SMB sharing.

I managed the whole thing from my SunOS/Solaris box.
I set up a PS-to-PDF distiller folder.

The instant someone placed a postscript file into that folder, it converted
it into PDF. That was only needed until I was able to get everyone to buy
the Acrobat writers (remember, this is before the Acrobat readers existed).

If they had the Acrobat writer, then they didn't need the distiller.
Nowadays, I don't think there is any use for the distiller, is there?

Note that the Mac drove people nuts due to the resource & data forks.

It's when I learned Apple products are such crap, but the funny thing about
Apple products is the dumber a person is, the more they love 'em.

Go figure.

HINT: They love Adobe PhotoShop but I get it for free with Paint.NET.

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Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-28 01:12 +0000
  Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-28 03:38 +0100
    Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-28 22:15 +0000
      Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-29 03:51 +0100
        Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-29 04:07 +0000
          Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-29 20:16 +0100
            Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-29 19:44 +0000
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