Semi Off Topic - From Print to Web

[Joe Sporleder]

I already have a separate watched folder for our online edition.  
Also, Freeway Pro, our website development program, automatically  
will let me place PDFs on the page. It then converts the PDF to the  
appropriate JPG for the preview. Then I link the JPG to the web  
optimized version of the PDF. From Creator to web friendly PDF and  
press friendly PDFs is the easy part. Creator and Acrobat Distiller  
make it so darn easy to make the PDFs. The organizational problem I  
am running into is going to the online edition. Creator, easy. PDFs,  
easy. PDFs to Freeway Pro, easy. Organizing and not overwhelming  
Freeway Pro, not so easy.

Joe

On Sep 28, 2006, at 9:41 AM, chris denesha wrote:

> At 08:54 AM 9/28/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>> Hi Fellow Creator Users,
>>
>> 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.
>
> First question - will you ever want to download individual ads, or  
> are the pages fine?
>
> Are you distilling the final EPSs to PDFs for the outsourced press  
> department?  If so, you can use a different watched folder for the  
> same EPSs to create your online PDFs instead of a second set of  
> Creator pages.
>
> I developed a process here to collect the final EPSs of our ads,  
> distill them with Distiller 7, Open them in Acrobat, and then Save  
> as JPG.  This is automated on a PC with VBScript, since I didn't  
> have a MAC to work with at the time.  (I also hit a snag where the  
> JPG quality was not good enough from Acrobat so I had to save them  
> as 600 dpi from Acrobat and then call PhotoShop to bicubic  
> downsample.)  We also found that we wanted 150 dpi JPGs in the end  
> for decent quality of fine text.
>
> Let me know if you'd be interested in the VBScript.