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Dr Miles Ellis
Director: Educational Technology Resources Centre
University of Oxford, 37 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, ENGLAND

Telephone: +44 1865 270528     Fax: +44 1865 270527
Email: Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk
       miles@oph.u-net.com  (home)
WWW: http://www.etrc.ox.ac.uk/Personal/Miles/Miles_Ellis.html
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In accordance with JTC1 policy, I have changed the password for access to
the SC22 PostScript -> Acrobat pdf distilling service.  With immediate
effect it is SC22pdf  (case sensitive).

As a reminder of the procedure, you should send any PostScript files by ftp
to com1.etrc.ox.ac.uk using the user name SC22 and the above password

You will automatically be connected to a folder called SC22Distill which
contains three sub-folders called In, Out and Gzipped_in.  You will not be
able to access any other folders!  Normally you should place the PostScript
file in the In folder.  However, if the document is a very large one you
may prefer to send it in compressed form.  In that case please send it as a
gzipped file and place it in the Gzipped_in folder and I will uncompress it
for you.  (If you can't gzip the file and it is too big to send comfortably
in uncompressed form, then please contact me and we can see if there is
another compression utility that you can use and that I can decompress.)

Once you have put the file in either of the above folders please send me an
email and let me know what you have done.  Files placed in the In folder
will be automatically processed the next time I run Distiller, but that
might not be for a while, so it's best to let me know.  If the file is in
compressed form then it will have to be uncompressed by me, so you
obviously need to let me know.

Once the file has been converted, which will normally be within a few
minutes of my receiving notification that it is there (unless I am away, of
course), both it and the distilled version will be transferred to the Out
folder, and you can collect the pdf file from there.  I will not normally
notify you that the conversion has been carried out, unless there seems to
be a good reason for doing so - like a problem or a long delay.

One point to note.  One of the benefits of Acrobat is that it is not
necessary to have the fonts used in the document available on your computer
when viewing the pdf file.  However it IS necessary to have them when
distilling.  I have quite a lot of fonts loaded on my computer, but they
may not be the ones that you are using if you are doing something clever,
or fancy.  So when creating the PostScript file you should use the option
to include "all fonts except the standard 35".  This means that is you are
using only PostScript Times, Palatino, Courier, etc there will be no font
inclusion, but if you are using Truetype, TeX, or more specialist
PostScript fonts they will be included in the file and the distillation
process will work at its best.  If some fonts are missing then Distiller
will do its best, but the resulting file will often not display correctly.

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