What does Don know about making PDFs, anyway?
I have a background of making my own PDFs under many different applications and from various versions of Windows, UNIX and Linux operating systems. I got curious about all of the problems Lulu was have printing PDFs submitted by authors and I found myself giving advice that did not always seem to result in solving authors’ problems with PDF creation. I set out to test various ways of making PDFs. Most of my tests were performed with Windows 98 (SE) in a slightly unusual configuration: Windows was running under Win4Lin which in turn was running under Linux. There are many advantages of this setup and I do not think it affected any of the results, but one never knows for sure. The main advantage is I could quickly and repeatedly install, remove and reinstall software because the required rebooting of Windows goes far faster under Win4Lin than would occur in a native Windows installation. I also tested a couple of things with Windows 2000 running natively. Finally, I made some tests with
