Semi Off Topic - From Print to Web

[Dave Balderstone]

On 28-Sep-06, at 7:54 AM, Joe Sporleder wrote:

> We use Creator for our ad creation, and also for our pagination,  
> using a set of simply organized folders where EPS's of Creator  
> generated ads, and EPS's saved from Acrobat Pro of camera ready  
> PDFs sent to us from outside sources, are stored, waiting for  
> production day and pagination, with the final output to PDF that  
> our outsourced press department downloads from our local server.  
> Our paginated pages are laid out in Creator also by placing the  
> EPS's onto a Creator page, with straight word classifieds placed on  
> the pages as text flows to finish out the page. It is real quick  
> and easy to create a 2nd set of pages worth of PDFs that have been  
> down sampled/optimized for Internet downloading. I would be  
> interested in some kind of software that would help automate or at  
> least partly automate the process that one doesn't have to be a  
> large daily in a major city to be able to afford.

Joe,

I wrote an Applescript a while back that exports a group of Creator  
files to just about every format possible (Text, PDF, JPG, TIFF)  
while doing a bunch of preflight work as well. It's quite localized  
to our environs, but I'd be happy to send you a copy for your perusal.