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How to Convert pub to pdf

Zones: Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Type Manager, ghostscript Font Software

Tags: convert, pub, pdf

Hia, I have a little problem here.
I've got this publisher document in which I need to convert to pdf using free accessible tools such as Ghost Script.

I tried saving my publisher 2000 document as postscript and then importing into ghostscript 6.5 in order to convert to pdf, but the saving of .pub to .ps returned an error-message that said something like "cannot save postscript to harddrive, make sure disk is not write-protected."

Seemingly the save process is not compleeted, cause the content - when .ps file loaded into a Ghostviewer does not appear correct- but with faults such as missing letters, graphics or errors when trying to zoom or browse in the pages.

I just need a way that makes it possible for me to convert the .pub to .pdf - if necessary via some .ps - if the Publisher application actually works.

Yours truely,
Nite-

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Zone: Software

Question Asked By: NiTech

Solution Provided By: gregdavey

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06.11.2001 at 11:31AM PDT, ID: 6178609

nedowl:

Is there a ACROBAT writer involved?

If that were there,
I set up Acrobat as my default printer, and add entries to win.ini in the sections
[Extensions]
PDF=C:\ACROREAD\ACROREAD.EXE ^.PDF
[PrinterPorts]
Acrobat PDFWriter=PDFWRITR,LPT1:,15,45
[Devices]
Acrobat PDFWriter=PDFWRITR,LPT1:

and add this section:
[Acrobat PDFWriter]
PDFFilename=c:\Acrobat3\defaultPDF.pdf
;bDocInfo=0

I then have a script that renames the file to what I need, and sends it out. As the default printer,
you will have to switch when you want to print hardcopy.

06.11.2001 at 11:51AM PDT, ID: 6178671

NiTech:

There is no acrobat reader involved. If I had the program, Id use it- but unfortunately its not available ...

nite-

06.11.2001 at 12:52PM PDT, ID: 6178845

NiTech:

There is no acrobat reader involved. If I had the program, Id use it- but unfortunately its not available ...

nite-

06.11.2001 at 01:03PM PDT, ID: 6178886

blakeh1:

The problem may be with either access rights, or Free-space in the location it is saving the postscript file to. The output file may exceed the free space on the disk/drive. Can you output to another location?

06.11.2001 at 01:06PM PDT, ID: 6178894

Rank: Wizard

cri:

See http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q163/5/51.asp

06.11.2001 at 03:23PM PDT, ID: 6179298

NiTech:

blakeh, it would not really be a free-space issue. The drive has 7gb free and the pub file is 240 meg. ...

06.12.2001 at 03:50AM PDT, ID: 6180750

NiTech:

I manage to save the pub as a ps by installing some "ps printer" to give the program some settings to work upon.

I however, when converting the file via ghostscript to pdf encounter the following error:
--------------------------------------------------------
Loading C:\gs\gs6.50\bin\gsdll32.dll
Loaded Ghostscript DLL
AFPL Ghostscript 6.50 (2000-12-02)
Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from C:\gs\fonts\n022003l.pfb... 1955208 581080 1557024 265926 1 done.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal font from C:\gs\fonts\n021023l.pfb... 2015496 648573 2159904 763843 3 done.
%%[ Page: 1 ]%%
%%[ Page: 2 ]%%
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from C:\gs\fonts\n021003l.pfb... 2075784 704401 2039328 723757 3 done.
Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from C:\gs\fonts\n019003l.pfb... 2115976 747512 2039328 729746 3 done.
%%[ Page: 3 ]%%
%%[ Page: 4 ]%%
Loading NimbusSanL-ReguItal font from C:\gs\fonts\n019023l.pfb... 2156168 792877 2099616 785255 3 done.
%%[ Page: 5 ]%%
%%[ Page: 6 ]%%
%%[ Page: 7 ]%%
Loading NimbusSanL-BoldItal font from C:\gs\fonts\n019024l.pfb... 2216456 842065 2119712 798481 3 done.
%%[ Page: 8 ]%%
%%[ Page: 9 ]%%
%%[ Page: 10 ]%%
%%[ Page: 11 ]%%
%%[ Page: 12 ]%%
%%[ Page: 13 ]%%
%%[ Page: 14 ]%%
%%[ Page: 15 ]%%
Unrecoverable error: undefined in X_GraphicRGBCSD
Operand stack:
0.6 1.0 0
gsdll_execute_cont returns -21
gsdll_exit returns 0
Unloaded GSDLL

--------------------------------------------------------

unfortunately..
nite-

06.12.2001 at 05:24AM PDT, ID: 6181070

Rank: Wizard

cri:

What is on page 16 ? Seems to cause the "Unrecoverable error: undefined in X_GraphicRGBCSD"
Can you split document in several part documents to narrow down an eventual culprit ?

06.12.2001 at 06:32AM PDT, ID: 6181422

webwoman:

What ps printer did you install? And how are you making the PDF? You should have Acrobat, the full version, if you need to make PDFs.

Forget ghostscript. Install a ps printer, I use one of the Seikos, but you can use any of the drivers that ship with Windows. Make sure it's a color printer, and install it on FILE -- not a port.

Ghostscript is completely unnecessary if you're making PDFs, and is probably the problem.

"In simple terms, this means that Ghostscript can read a PostScript or PDF file and display the results on the screen or convert them into a form you can print on a non-PostScript printer. Especially together with several popular previewers, with Ghostscript you can view or print an entire document or even isolated pages, even if your computer doesn't have Display PostScript and your printer doesn't handle PostScript itself. "

Ghostscript lets you VIEW and print PS files, not make PDFs...and it's really not necessary if you make a PDF. PDFs print on any printer, postscript or not.

06.12.2001 at 06:53AM PDT, ID: 6181545

webwoman:

06.12.2001 at 08:44AM PDT, ID: 6182145

KBMacKenzie:

You can get a free Adobe PDF Writer via CNet at
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-4003370-100-4198395.html

06.12.2001 at 09:45AM PDT, ID: 6182413

Rank: Wizard

cri:

webwoman, NiTech does not have Acrobat, and some utilities like ps2pdf need Ghostscript.

KBMacKenzie, yes, you can _get_ it for free... But for installing "..You will need your Acrobat 3.0 serial number to install PDF Writer..."

NiTech: Online conversion: http://www.ps2pdf.com/convert/convert.htm

06.13.2001 at 01:13AM PDT, ID: 6184970

gregdavey:

Hi

I had exactly the same problem with GhostScript and documents printed to a PS printer from MS Word.

This is my story
We were sending word97 documents to a printer to be printed
They were coming back wrong.
The printer told us to print to the same printer they had and then send them the prn files to print
This did not work
I loaded up GhostScript to find out why
The prn files were corrupt
I tracked it down to dodgy graphics.
Apparently word had somehow corrupted the pictures in the document (???)
Solution. For each page that did not work, remove the graphics and re-embed

I would reccommend you try this method

Greg

Accepted Solution

06.13.2001 at 03:27AM PDT, ID: 6185371

webwoman:

That could work...

However, the easiest solution would be to just break down and buy Acrobat. Do that, and you'll have no problems making PDFs from Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. I've never had any problems, not with any type of graphics or any program.

Especially if you do this on a regular basis, it would be a good investment. Save you a lot of headaches...

06.13.2001 at 03:44AM PDT, ID: 6185423

gregdavey:

mmm... expensive solution to a simple problem.

I am not 100% if this would fix the problem anyway. We had problems printing these documents to the printer, so I can't see why it would be any different 'printing' to pdf. However, I did not try to print the corrupt documents to pdf so I can't 100% say

If you can afford it though, Adobe Acrobat IS a terrific program.

Greg

06.13.2001 at 03:56AM PDT, ID: 6185457

gregdavey:

There are other free PDF creators on the market. I have not tested them so I don't know how they work

Greg

06.13.2001 at 01:25PM PDT, ID: 6188225

webwoman:

If you had problems printing to a postscript printer, then yes, the document could have problems -- or it could be that the printer doesn't have enough RAM to handle what you're asking of it, or the driver could be wrong...if you're using ghostscript to print to a non-postscript printer, that could be the problem. Have you tried installing a postscript printer on FILE? Though, without Acrobat Distiller, that's not going to be much help...

I've had the exact opposite happen -- documents that didn't print right to the postscript printer would make flawless PDFs, and the PDFs would print correctly to ANY printer.

So it's hard to say what might work better...

07.01.2001 at 10:45AM PDT, ID: 6242804

amp:

NiTech: Please provide feedback.

amp
Community Support Moderator
Experts Exchange

08.22.2001 at 11:53AM PDT, ID: 6414843

costello:

If no objections are made in the next 5 days, I will force accept the contribution by gregdavey.

costello
Community Support Moderator @ Experts-Exchange

P.S. This post is made as part of the general effort to clean up this topic area, meaning, looping through all the open questions with no activity since 21 days.

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