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Instructions
Preparing Postscript files on a Mac
The following is a list of instructions to prepare a postscript file to send to Style. This is our preferred method as it makes sure all fonts and images are included in the file. Below is a list of steps involved in creating a postscript file.
- Download Printer Description files (PPD)
- Download Adobe PS
- Getting page settings right
- Creating a postscript file
- How Style can accept the file
1 - Download PPD
At Style we have three PPD files, one for each different type of device we have.
- "Style_Press_PPD" Printer setup for full colour press download
- "Style_Digital_PPD" Printer setup for in-house digital printers download
- "Style_Largeformat_PPD" Printer setup for large format inkjet to A0 size download
You have an option to download one or all PPD's as Compressed file. download
Place the “Style” PPD file (downloaded above) into the ‘Printer Descriptions’ folder, which is located on your hard disk in System Folder > Extensions. Setting up the final part of the Virtual Printer must be done the first time you use it.
2 - Download AdobePS
At the time of writing these instructions the latest AdobePS driver is availiable from Adobe Downloads
3 - Getting page settings right
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Go to the Chooser (under the Apple Menu) and click on the ‘AdobePS’ driver. The right hand panel of the Chooser should remain blank: make sure you don’t highlight any printers if they appear there. |
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Now that you have set the right PPD, you can now choose the page size that you want your document to be. |
Some programs (such as PageMaker and QuarkXPress) let you specify the PPD you want to use in the print dialog box see diagram attached of selecting a PPD in QuarkXPress (Note selecting the PPD give you the valid page sizes for our printers), however for programs that don’t have this feature there is another procedure to follow. For our example, we will use Claris Works.
Open the document you wish to make into a PostScript file, and then choose ‘Page Setup’ from the File menu. Make sure that the top Click on the pull-down menu which reads ‘Page Attributes’ and select ‘Virtual Printer’.
In this dialog press ‘Select PPD…’ and choose the which one of the ‘Style’ PPD's.4 - Creating a postscript file
Now that your page is set up correctly, it’s time to make the PostScript file.
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Choose "Print" from "File" menu |
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At the top of this dialog, the printer should be ‘Virtual Printer’ and the destination should be ‘File’. |
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Go to the pull-down menu which reads ‘general’, and choose ‘PostScript settings’ |
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The settings in this menu should be the same as the screenshot right to ensure that the file size is as small as possible and that your fonts are included in the file. |
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When you have specified the right settings, click on ‘Save’ and specify where you would like your file saved. After this has been completed you will have a PostScript file ready to send to for output. |
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5 - Transfer the file to Style
We accept digital files in various ways click here to find out more.
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