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Originally Posted by cjwworld
hummn, don't think so. You will have fonts issues. But maybe they had changed things in 10.5
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I have much less problems with PDF distilled from PostScript files made with OS X print engine (AKA OS X PostScript driver) on a virtual printer than with exported PDF from XPress (or from InDesign)... and every times I had a problem with an exported PDF, the problem did disappear when I re-do the PDF using Adobe's Distiller with a .PS file generated by OS X PostScript driver.
When exporting a PDF from XPress, the PostScript intermediate file is generated by Xpress (and transformed in PDF by the Jaws software): whatever the output method you use, .PS file for PDF or EPS files with the "Save page as EPS" command, XPress always generates poor PostScript files... (almost all XPress's users have experienced problems trying to use EPS files exported with the "Save page as EPS" command, either opening them with Illustrator, or importing them in another layout!)...
... so using poor EPS or .PS files exported from XPress, even if distilled by a good Adobe Distiller can only generate poor PDF, and in most cases strange problems occuring with PDF made using an exportation from XPress disappear when generating a good .PS file on a virtual printer (or using Adobe's PDF printer: it's the same process).
Because creating the PostScript file on a virtual printer (using the Acrobat PPD is a good choice) allows you to generate the PostScript file with the PostScript driver of OS X, and avoid XPress (and it's poor PostScript) involved in the PostScript generation.
The only known issue of this method is that there is no crop/trim box in the PDF... the workaround is to set a PDF page size having a constant and known relationship with the document page size: for example 1 inch more (1/2 inch around) or 2 cm more (1 cm around: PDF page is 23 x 31.7 cm for an A4 document)... or to buy a plug-in that adds the trim and crop boxes in the .PS file.
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Something must have changed between 7.2 and 7.5.
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Yes... Quark always try to improve his PDFexport in each update...
(I remember a bug that occured in the 7.2/7.3x exported PDF and that disappeared in the 7.5 update...)
But in all softwares updates fix many bugs and bring some new!
