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Please remove my name for the PDF- basics digest list. Thank you for the information -----Original Message----- From: pdf-basics-digest [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 6:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pdf-basics-digest for January-5-2004 [V1 #984] pdf-basics-digest Monday, January 5 2004 Volume 01 : Number 984 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 4 messages totalling 400 lines in this issue. Topics of the Day: 1. RE: [PDF-Basics] Distiller 3 and Distiller 4 Differences 2. Re: [PDF-Basics] Distiller 3 and Distiller 4 Differences 3. [PDF-Basics] Distiller error in Acro 6 4. Re: [PDF-Basics] Distiller error in Acro 6 To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 07:55:17 -0800 From: "Rich Sprague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [PDF-Basics] Distiller 3 and Distiller 4 Differences PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ Boy, I think Distiller 3 is 7 or 8 years old. In computer years, that's ancient. With Distiller 3, in particular, it's prehistoric. Distiller 4 (.05) was a major rewrite of how the program functioned. Two critical changes were: 1) Fonts. For the first time Distiller was programmed to read and obey the font embedding restriction tags in TrueType fonts. This would cause PDFs to fail if a user tried to embed fonts that were flagged not to embed. This change caused massive confusion and anger amongst the masses, and pitted consumers against Adobe and font foundries. Macromedia's Fontographer was a party to the mess, too. Also, Adobe changed the base 14 fonts from Helvetica and Times, to Arial and Times New Roman, and others. The reason was that the company was giving away hundreds of thousands of free readers and had to pay expensive font licensing fees out of its pocket. 2) Job options. Distiller 3 is clunky if you want to make more than one flavor of PDF. Distiller 4 provided default and user specified options for different types of PDFs (i.e. CMYK or RGB; font embedding, subsetting, or not; different resolutions; etc.). In general, Acrobat 4 was much more friendly for those who wished to use PDFs for commercial printing purposes. That said, Distiller is now up to version 6. Many more features are included, and Adobe has made significant refinements to version 4.05. If you want to learn more, you might be able to find out more information on the Adobe web site. (http://www.adobe.com). Hope this helps. Rich - -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Srinivasulu Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 1:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PDF-Basics] Distiller 3 and Distiller 4 Differences PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ Can any one tell me the diffrences in features of Distiller3 and Distiller 4 ? seena To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:37:31 +0530 From: Srinivasulu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PDF-Basics] Distiller 3 and Distiller 4 Differences PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ Thanks a lot for the update seena =============== - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Sprague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:25 PM Subject: RE: [PDF-Basics] Distiller 3 and Distiller 4 Differences > > PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > http://www.pdfzone.com/ > __________________________________________________________________ > > Boy, > > I think Distiller 3 is 7 or 8 years old. In computer years, that's ancient. > With Distiller 3, in particular, it's prehistoric. > > Distiller 4 (.05) was a major rewrite of how the program functioned. > Two critical changes were: > > 1) Fonts. > > For the first time Distiller was programmed to read and obey the font > embedding restriction tags in TrueType fonts. This would cause PDFs to fail > if a user tried to embed fonts that were flagged not to embed. This > change caused massive confusion and anger amongst the masses, and > pitted consumers > against Adobe and font foundries. Macromedia's Fontographer was a > party to the mess, too. > > Also, Adobe changed the base 14 fonts from Helvetica and Times, to > Arial and > Times New Roman, and others. The reason was that the company was > giving away > hundreds of thousands of free readers and had to pay expensive font > licensing fees out of its pocket. > > 2) Job options. Distiller 3 is clunky if you want to make more than > one flavor of PDF. Distiller 4 provided default and user specified > options for different types of PDFs (i.e. CMYK or RGB; font embedding, > subsetting, or not; different resolutions; etc.). > > In general, Acrobat 4 was much more friendly for those who wished to > use PDFs for commercial printing purposes. > > That said, Distiller is now up to version 6. Many more features are > included, and Adobe has made significant refinements to version 4.05. > > If you want to learn more, you might be able to find out more > information on > the Adobe web site. (http://www.adobe.com). > > Hope this helps. > > Rich > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Srinivasulu > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 1:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PDF-Basics] Distiller 3 and Distiller 4 Differences > > > PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > http://www.pdfzone.com/ > __________________________________________________________________ > > Can any one tell me the diffrences in features of Distiller3 and Distiller > 4 ? > seena > > > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:36:06 +0000 From: Chris Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PDF-Basics] Distiller error in Acro 6 PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ Hi, one of our designers is having problems with distiller, with the majority of files......... An error message reads: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: distillsave ]%%.........................................self explanatory %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%..........................................obviously and %%[ Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: showpage ]%%................................................this I don't understand? %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% Mac OSX 10.8, Acrobat Distiller 6 (saved out to pdf 1.3), Quark 4.1 Any ideas, greatly appreciated. Regards Chris - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ----------------------------------------------------- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. 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Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Highbury - - Paragon. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ----------------------------------------------------- To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:54:54 -0800 (PST) From: Mark I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PDF-Basics] Distiller error in Acro 6 PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ Chris - I found this in a pdfzone archive - of all places :D Sounds like it might do the trick. *Andy, * *This Acrobat Distiller 6.0 error is typical for using *Norton Utilities or to be more specific its *AutoProtect component under Mac OS X. *Remove it and it should work as expected. * *Regards * *Robert Zacherl Hope it helps, Mark - --- Chris Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > http://www.pdfzone.com/ > __________________________________________________________________ > > Hi, one of our designers is having problems with distiller, with the > majority of files......... > > An error message reads: > > %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: distillsave > ]%%.........................................self explanatory > %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] > %%..........................................obviously > and > %%[ Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: showpage > ]%%................................................this I don't > understand? > %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% > %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% > > Mac OSX 10.8, Acrobat Distiller 6 (saved out to pdf 1.3), Quark 4.1 > > Any ideas, greatly appreciated. > > > Regards Chris > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------- > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not > copy it, re-transmit it, use it or disclose its contents, but should > return it to the sender immediately and delete your copy from your > system. 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