I have no idea what software the printers use suffice to ay they are a commercial outfit and certainly the screen output looked completely normal. The PDFs were not compressed but were amalgamated using PDF995 suite.I could understand it better if all the printed output was corrupt but many pages were normal, I doubt whether the firm will want to talk to me again! CH
-----Original Message----- From: David Tayler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 July 2008 10:22 To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: PDFprinting problems. What software? Are you using "press" output in the settings? Backwards compatibility turned on? Compression turned off for fonts and graphics? dt At 12:07 PM 6/30/2008, you wrote: >Dear All, >I downloaded some PDF files of The Weiss London Ms which I wanted to get >printed professionally. I checked each file (68) using both Acrobat and >pdf995Edit and gsview. They were fine. I then amalgamated then into four >PDFs checked again and sent them by email to the printers. The output was >wrong with a number of pages and I can only assume that fonts were being >substituted as the tablature lines were correct but the tablature glyphs had >been replaced by punctuation marks. The printer's computer screen showed the >files correctly. The manager said that this had never happened before and >they print off thousands of PDFs. I cannot explain it . Document info shows >that the Django fonts are embedded. I have printed these files before and >were it not for the 'fiddle' of binding them I would do it again. Can >anybody ell me what the problem is? >Thanks >Charles > >it's a long winding road without a map and compass. {MRY6STVMNzY9Gl7wis} > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
