All,
Here's an interesting problem I've just encountered.
In the attached file, after "making" the pdf documents with make.bat, I
want to optimize the resulting pdf files before placing them on our web
site. In Acrobat 4, I would select File->Save As in Acrobat (not Distiller)
and I could click the Settings button to disable printing if I wished, etc.
The resulting file was "optimized" for byte-serving (page at a time) on our
web site.
Well, no longer. First of all, when I do File->Save As on
context-matrices-s.pdf (one of the pdf files that results from running
make.bat), the "Settings" button is greyed and unavailable. So, a little
journey into Acrobat 5's help files reveals:
Optimizing or creating Fast Web View files
You should convert your PDF files to Fast Web View PDF files�that is,
optimize them�
before distributing them.This minimizes file size and facilitates
page-at-a-time
downloading. In most cases, converting your PDF files to Fast Web View PDF
files by
optimizing them reduces their file size significantly.
Fast Web View also restructures a PDF document to prepare for page-at-a-time
downloading (byte-serving) from Web servers.With page-at-a-time
downloading, the
Web server sends only the requested page of information to the user, rather
than the
entire PDF document.This is especially important with large documents,
which can take a
long time to download from a server.
To find out if a PDF document has been converted to Fast Web View:
Choose File > Document Properties > Summary, and look at the Fast Web View
option.
To create a Fast Web View document:
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > General. Select Options in the left panel of
the General
Preferences dialog box. Select Save As Optimizes for Fast Web View (This
option is set by
default.) Click OK.
2 Use the File > Save As command to save your file.
Ok, I do this and save the file context-matrices-s.pdf as
context-matrices-s.pdf. Only difficulty, now none of my hyperlinks work.
Nada. It is no longer a navigable (is this a word?) document.
Yuk!
Any gurus out there that would care to comment?
context-matrices.zip
