MIXED PAGE SIZE POSTSCRIPT TO PDF

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April 30, 2020
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I have a postscript file that has 3 different pages sizes in it, I want to create a pdf that also has all 3 page sizes. But when I distill it, it takes the first page size for all. My postscript file has the correct pages sizes for each page defined in it. Is there a way to create a pdf correctly?

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My wild guess is that it is three EPS files concatenated, which can’t work because EPS files don’t contain page size Requests.

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I used a software called Inspire to create the postscript file. If I proof using this tool it's correct but when it gets distilled it's not. The tool is capable of creating a pdf correctly but unfortunately there are charges for creating pdfs using this tool and we have used our limit. I'm not all that familiar with postscript how can I tell if the file has concatenated eps files?

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Thanks for the file. I can report I was half right. It's as if they were a bunch of EPS files joined together, but isn't actually that. The file includes comments saying what the page size is intended to be, but only the first page actually does anything about it. So, because of this error, all the pages distill to the same size.

In general, if an app has direct PDF export it should be used in preference to the print-to-PDF route; many things can be lost. You can try reporting this as a bug. However, since your stated aim is to void paying for the PDF export feature, your report might not get top priority...

Dov Isaacs

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I assume that you are not printing from an application to the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance, but instead, already have a PostScript file with multiple page sizes. Is that correct?

If you can post the PostScript file, we can examine it to see what's going on. The functionalilty you describe should work.

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)