Hi, Dov.
Dov Isaacs wrote:
A word of advice. Before you go loading up on el'cheapo
$9.95 PDF creation software, make sure that what it generates
is really kosher. We quite often see problems when these
PDF files "escape" the environment in which they were created
and attempts are made to either combine them with other PDF
files in Acrobat or to place them in FrameMaker, InDesign,
or elsewhere. Problems often manifest themselves as funky font
definitions with improper names and encodings that cause
chaos when attempts are made to repurpose those PDF files.
Just because those other employees are not publishing vast
tomes doesn't mean that they should have shoddy tools.
Good points, yes!
We have some people who create "print-quality" documents for which
we need to be sure that the PDF's are very high quality. For these
folks, we have Acrobat Pro installed on their systems - the "right"
way to go for sure!
It is the rest of the folks, who send out docs and files outside
our company for reading or review and other purposes, that we want
to have in PDF format. The purpose is to avoid having "original"
documents out there. The policy was created because we got burned
by "properties" information in a Word doc recently - an older doc
was used to create a new one and ... oops!
None of the PDF's from these other employees is likely to be used
in situations where they might cause problems like you mention.
So, I am fairly confident (but keeping my fingers crossed till I
test some more) that we should be okay with something like PDF995.
But, I will definitely try things out in detail before proceeding ...
Of course, if Adobe Elements were a LOT lower in price for multiple
copies, or the server version of Acrobat was not so crazily over-
priced for our simple needs (less than 50 employees total!), we
would not be looking at cheaper alternatives. Hint, hint! :)
Thanks for the input regardless! It is appreciated.
Z
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Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:09 AM
To: Ron Teplitz
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: What do you use for PDF Generation?
Ron Teplitz wrote:
Every copy of Frame I've seen for a long time included Acrobat
Distiller, going back to at least FM 6.0. Distiller does
all of what
many folks need in the way of PDF generation. What version
of Frame do
you have? Have you checked to see if your distribution
included Distiller?
Cheers,
Ron
Oh, I should have been clearer. I definitely use Acrobat Pro
7 for my PDF creation! With output from FrameMaker and all
other programs too. :)
My questions related to the fact that we need to get PDF
creation ability for *all* the employees in our company, and
the price of Acrobat Pro (or Standard, too) would be very
prohibitive. These folks mostly do not use FrameMaker ...
most are simply using Word and Excel for their daily stuff.
Right now, I am leaning towards either Acrobat Elements or
PDF995 as the "preferred" solution for this new policy ...
those seem to have garnered the most "votes" too, but I do
plan on quickly looking at some of the open-source freebie
stuff as well.
What I have tried and did NOT like: PDF-Xchange. This came as
a freebie demo with some app that I got, and it simply
crashes too often on my system. Not good enough.
Another one that was still a tad bit too expensive (as an
Enterprise total cost) was PDF Convertor 3 from Nuance. I
liked it (I use my copy of the PDF to Word convertor on
occasion), but the total cost is a bit high.
This is why PDF995 is leading the pack right now ...
Thanks!
Z
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