What is Dons idea of a great free way to make compliant PDFs?
Adobe, the inventors of postscript, make software for producing postscript printer drivers. The process combines a postscript printer description (PPD) file with their generic driver to make a specific postscript driver. Interestingly, Adobe also makes a PPD file for Acrobat Distiller. Combining these two Adobe files produces a generic postscript driver made for producing postscript files. Then you can use GSView, a front-end to Ghostscript, to produce a PDF from the postscript file. This 2-step approach sounds more complicated than it really is. I’ve moved the instructions for installing the software to one page and the instructions for using the software to make a PDF to another page.
