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File Creation How-to's

PLEASE READ through the file specifications to review a checklist of requirements before proceeding with the following steps.


select  1. Setting Up Your Computer

2. Creating a Postscript File

3. Distilling a Postscript File



  Setting Up Your Computer


Before you begin, make sure you have installed the DDAP PPD or have created a virtual printer (create a virtual printer ONLY if you are using Quark).

Installing the DDAP PPD


- If you haven’t done so already download the DDAPv3 PPD file: Mac (5k) | PC (5k). The file is in .zip or .sit format so make sure to Unstuff it.

- Move the DDAP PPD to the following location on your hard drive:
HardDrive/library/printers/PPDs/contents/resources/en.lproj



Creating a Virtual Printer


NOTE: Continue ONLY if you are using Quark 6.0 or higher


Printer Setup Utility


- Open the Printer Setup Utility application from the Utilities folder:
HD/applications/utilities


Add Printer

- Click the "Add" icon on the top of the window


IP Printing

- From the first pull-down menu, select IP Printing


Name Printer

- In the Printer Address, enter “localhost”

- In Queue Name, “name of your virtual printer” (do not use spaces)


Other Printer

- With the “Printer Model” pull-down menu, choose “other”


choose DDAP

- Locate the newly added DDAP PPD and click “Choose”

(HD/library/printers/PPDs/contents/
resources/en.lproj);


Click Add

- Finish the process by clicking “Add”


done


- The newly added printer will now be listed in the printer list


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