HP Rip Software manual PostScript Printer Description Files

PDFs are files created for use with QuarkXPress. They are required for QuarkXPress versions 3.2 and earlier and can also be used with versions 3.3 and 3.31. Quark provides a tool that helps in the creation of PDFs called MakePDF. PDFs were origi- nally called XPDs. PDFs are binary files with the data stored in the resource fork.

There are two types of PDF files: one containing fixed paper sizes and one that allows creation of variable (custom) page sizes. Some engines have both, some just the former. For PressMate-FS, these also came in the color and black-and-white versions.

QuarkXPress PDFs are included on the Software DVD-ROM, but they are not installed by the installer. The last PDFs distrib- uted by were for the Giclée PrintMakerFA.

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