Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat .pdf file durability

2007-10-05 Thread db
Distiller is a little tricky until you get used to it. Start with a Postscript file (.ps) ... if running Windows, you can convert a file to .ps by using the Print to file option of a print dialog box. db chad evans wyatt wrote: Distiller, OK. I have that, and will learn to use that in my

Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat .pdf file durability

2007-10-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
I use Adobe InDesign. InDesign gives lots of choices for export, including prepress, crop marks, compressing images, embedding fonts [default], compatibility with earlier versions of Acrobat Reader. Only Postscript fonts can be embedded [? maybe]. A PDF/X file embeds lots of extra information

Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat .pdf file durability

2007-10-04 Thread chad evans wyatt
Betty - I am comfortable with several keyboard configurations (Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, French, etc). They are all available to me on my OSX platform (as they were in OS9), and I draw upon them frequently (flags in the menu bar activated). How does one go the extra step to embed, I thought

Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat .pdf file durability

2007-10-04 Thread db
In order to control what gets put in a pdf and how, you have to use a full featured pdf tool like Acrobat Distiller. It let's you embed fonts etc while trading off with increased file size. db chad evans wyatt wrote: Betty - I am comfortable with several keyboard configurations (Czech,

Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat .pdf file durability

2007-10-04 Thread b_s-wilk
I use Adobe InDesign. InDesign gives lots of choices for export, including prepress, crop marks, compressing images, embedding fonts [default], compatibility with earlier versions of Acrobat Reader. Only Postscript fonts can be embedded [? maybe]. A PDF/X file embeds lots of extra information

Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat .pdf file durability

2007-10-04 Thread chad evans wyatt
Distiller, OK. I have that, and will learn to use that in my record-keeping. Thanks! Chad Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html

Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat .pdf file durability (was Oddball)

2007-10-03 Thread chad evans wyatt
Many thanks, Betty! I can't wait to look at files from all that time ago... Another question: I know that you handle languages fonts with accents other than English. Some time ago, I used Acrobat5 to convert many webpages relevant to a project to .pdf. Diacriticals worked fine, everything.

Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat .pdf file durability (was Oddball)

2007-10-03 Thread b_s-wilk
As one who uses several different languages in my work [and play], I've memorized most of the keyboard combinations for special symbols, accents, umlauts, etc. I still use the old Key Caps to find what I need quickly, and I have a chart, too. When you create a document in Acrobat, there are a