Following-up my own message. Bad form, but not as bad as leaving a mistake uncorrected.... > install GhostScript and print a PostScript file from Preview or > Quicktime. Go to the command line and type "ps2pdf -dPrinted file.ps > file.pdf" and see if it does any better. That command line should have been: ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer file.ps file.pdf Sorry about any confusion. Replace "/printer" with "/prepress" if you want maximum sharpness & don't care how big the PDF gets. See http://ghostscript.com/doc/AFPL/8.00/Ps2pdf.htm for all sorts of details. -- Larry