Re: [PDF] xml to pdf
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 06:17 AM 5/7/2004, Lewis Hamer wrote: We are currently implementing XML into our Production workflow, Are you using XML as the medium for your content or for workflow information? Are you using a custom grammar or a standard one? Has anyone yet had any experience with xml and converting to pdf for print, Depending on your situation, there are numerous approaches to the problem - though most will involve either the application of a stylesheet (via XSL:FO) and/or the use of XSL-T to transform from your XML to another XML with styling/layout information... are there any parameters/problems that we will need to be aware of. Define ALL of your requirements up front - you know some of them (table support, formula support, etc.), but do you know them all. Then go looking at products, and see which one(s) match your requirements. And also consider how you will use them to go from one grammar to another... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Question on Distiller
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 03:26 PM 5/6/2004, William Taggart wrote: In Word, I select File, Print and then choose the Distiller driver So you are using Acrobat 5 then, yes? 5.0 or 5.0.5? What OS platform? Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Upgrade to Acro 6 Pro from 5 on OSX
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 04:50 PM 5/3/2004, Edward Becker wrote: If I leave Acro 5 installed will I be able to tell Quark to use Acro 5 Distiller to process my Export to PDF Possibly - I don't use Quark (or Classic), so can't confirm. And to add more confusion, I'm going to go to Panther shortly and that may add another level of complexity as I'm not sure how that's going to impact Acrobat and Quark. It's GREAT for Acrobat - Acrobat 6.x is Panther savvy!! As for Quark - you are going to need to bite the bullet sooner or later and either upgrade to Quark 6 OR (if you're smart) make the leap to InDesign... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Pdf Booklets
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 06:20 PM 5/3/2004, Francisco Smith wrote: I've encountered a file that was in letter size sheets (8.5x11) pdf's. The booklet was to be made in to 3 - 11x17 finished pieces. The 2 inside spreads (sheets) are to be sent to the xerox docutech and imposed there. The front of the first sheet was to be in full color on our color copier The back of that was to be in B/W and could only be run on the color copier also. My problem was that I couldn't make the first and second sides ( one color one B/W) in the the 11x17 format in the pdf or at the printer. I use acrobat 5 (mac) and (pc) versions. What would you suggest? I don't have the original file. I recommend you look at 3rd party imposition tools such as PDF Enhancer, Quite Imposing or PDF Snake. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Searchable PDF
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 04:23 PM 5/5/2004, Andrea Mumma wrote: I have received a pdf (created in Digipath) [that is not searchable] and I need to make it a searchable pdf. Any assistance would be helpful since my next option is to put all 716 pages through a scanner and safe it as a PDF Image and Text file. Well that's basically what you are going to do - but w/o printing and rescanning. If these are really image-based PDFs, then just open them up in Acrobat and run Paper Capture on them. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF] pdf file expands in size ten fold...what was the trick?
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 07:58 PM 5/3/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: got a 200K PDF that i edited with acrobat pro 6...blanked out a few text fields...and when it was saved, it is now over 2.8 MEG? what was that trick to get it back down to normal size again? Save As. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] JBIG2
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 08:05 PM 5/4/2004, Gary Hill wrote: How can you tell if JBIG2 compression has been used... You can try opening the PDF in an old copy of Acrobat 4 and see if it complains... I have a document that was said to use JBIG2 but other than the size being a hint, I see nothing in properties that suggests this compression level was used... anyone? There are some programming/developer tools that you could use to check. You could open the PDF up in a text editor and search for JBIG2Decode. If you find it, then it is in use. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Upgrade to Acro 6 Pro from 5 on OSX
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 03:50 PM 5/3/2004, Edward Becker wrote: I'm considering upgrading to Acrobat 6 Pro on my G4/450 running OSX 10.2.8 from Acrobat 5 Go for it! You will find Acrobat 6 a MUCH more compatible experience than 5. and I want to have the ability to still create PDF files from my Classic applications such as QuarkXpress 4. Print to Postscript, bring the Postscript into Distiller 6. No problems. Will upgrading to 6 force me to uninstall version 5 No, it won't force you... I know that running two versions of Acrobat on PC or Mac's is taboo, is there a workaround. It's actually just fine on the Mac, due to the way the OS works...But you still do so w/o the blessing and support of Adobe. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Getting a huge pdf
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 04:54 PM 4/30/2004, Eric Porlier wrote: My problem is that they want me to make sure that the content of it all is unaccessible for copying or extracting the data. 100% sure. There is NO WAY to make the file 100% sure of extracting - REGARDLESS of file format. If someone can read the file on the screen, then they can always take a picture of the screen with a camera or just retype it. Can you easily protect against the 90% cases of folks - yes, using the built-in security of Acrobat or add-on tools such as FileOpen, Authentica or even Adobe's new Policy Server. I thought of having all the pages of the document into .jpg and then make a pdf with all these .jpg. What's to stop someone from running OCR on those images - or doing what I suggest above? Why waste your time, and the quality of the document, for that few percent? Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF] Enfocus pitstop
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 03:46 AM 4/30/2004, Lewis Hamer wrote: Our company are now moving external printers who have recommended that we use Enfocus Pitstop before sending off our pdfs for printing. Is this the best tool for checking pdfs before sending to the printers?? PitStop is one of a series of preflighting tools that can be used to check your PDF against a known set of requirements before it is sent on. Is the printer providing you with the specific profile that they require? If not, then checking with ANY preflighter won't necessarily help as you don't know their requirements. If yes, then sure - because you'll be able to show you met their requirements should there be issues. what problems does it look for in a pdf that cannot be spotted by manual checking, Potentially, LOTS of stuff... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Form with Prompt to insert a JPG Picture
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 05:48 AM 4/29/2004, JR Boulay wrote: Leonard was wrong, this method works fine with any Reader before version 6. I have been wrong before, but not in this case... According to the JavaScript Reference (AcroJS.pdf), field.buttonImportIcon() is specifically noted as NOT working with Reader. Also, considering that such an operation would require modification of a document, it would logically follow that it not be supported in Reader. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Form with Prompt to insert a JPG Picture
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 08:46 AM 4/29/2004, david lindblad wrote: Just tried and it does work in Reader 5. 5.0 or 5.1? 5.1 had some bugs where certain functions that shoujld have been disabled were not... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Form with Prompt to insert a JPG Picture
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 09:19 AM 4/29/2004, JR Boulay wrote: I beg you pardon, but this is true. Adobe provided some samples with Acrobat install CD-Rom (versions 3/4/5). It wouldn't have been there in 3, since although forms were introduced in Acrobat 3, JavaScript wasn't introduced till 3.5... This function was removed from Reader since version 6, this could explain why your JavaScript Reference (a recent version, I guess) noted it as not working with Reader. True, I am looking at the Acro6 version of the docsCan't locate my older copy :(. But in fact it works with Reader versions 3/4/5. I'd used this function in the past for some clients forms, Reader 6 deployement was a nightmare ! ;-) Then I will take your word for it - it's just quite surprising... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Page Open Event not responding with VB app
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 02:33 PM 4/29/2004, CAIRNS Robert -NUCLEAR wrote: I was trying to build a small Visual Basic application that opens an Acrobat form in a window. Using what method? Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
RE: [PDF-Forms] Page Open Event not responding with VB app
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 03:00 PM 4/29/2004, CAIRNS Robert -NUCLEAR wrote: I'm working with the ActiveView example in the IAC section that came with 5.0 SDK, Leonard (i.e. openInWindowEx) AFAIK, Page Open Actions (in general) should run just fine in that mode...HOWEVER, as noted in the Acrobat JS documentation, some commands won't run in that mode... So it may not be the actions - but the scripts themselves. Easy thing to do - put a simple action there and try it. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
RE: [PDF-Forms] Calculation of fields - division
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 03:01 PM 4/29/2004, Justice Gradowitz wrote: Ask Leonard, he has all the $. I do?? Do you know it is, cause I can't find it ;(. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF-Basics]
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 08:53 AM 4/28/2004, Roberto Gerone wrote: You have to know that i've only the acrobat reader and i have the password to read the document. Do I need perhaps a pdf file maker? is enough acrobat reader to unprotect the documen? the only 2 things that i can do are printing the document and save a copy as. No, you can't remove the protection on a document with only Reader - you need the full Acrobat product. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] OpenType fonts
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 10:20 AM 4/28/2004, BILL PENMAN wrote: We are Mac classic based, If you are classic based, then how are you using OpenType fonts? and also we have PitStop but as far as i can pitstop cannot check for OTF Because by the time the PDF is made, the OTF is no longer an OTF. It is either a Type 1/CFF or a TrueType font... at present so how can i be sure that every thing is ok. As long as your RIP is current on firmware, you will be fine. Older RIPs had problems with Unicode-based information, which frequently comes from the use of OTF fonts... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Form with Prompt to insert a JPG Picture
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 11:26 AM 4/28/2004, Peter Reaper wrote: Is there a way I can let the user click the image area, have Acrobat prompt for the file location, and insert the image into that area? Yes, IF the user has the FULL Acrobat... Reader, however, has no ability to do this - UNLESS users have Reader 5.1 and later AND you use Adobe Reader Extensions Server to enable extra rights. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF] SOS
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 08:56 PM 4/24/2004, Dave wrote: I combined the customers pdf files into one 60 page file. As I did so, I noticed type characters (Arial!) overlapping and jumbling on the screen. The only time I have seen this is the merging of files with different subsets of the same fonts using Acrobat 5 and earlier and then viewing in same... Basically, Acrobat 5 and earlier doesn't know how to correctly handle the situation of multiple (variant) subsets of the same font... There are also issues with files when using FULL EMBEDS of Type 1 fonts with Distiller and then merging... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Open Clipboard in Mac and PC
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 10:45 AM 4/22/2004, Mihalic, Brian wrote: Probably the obvious reason I would imagine is that there is no Window Show Clipboard function on the Mac. The clipboard viewer might be some place else. Not only is there is no clipboard viewer in Acrobat for the Mac OS - there is no clipboard viewer PERIOD! Mac OS has never come with such a piece - as such, there is no way to access it... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Open Clipboard in Mac and PC
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 11:34 AM 4/23/2004, JR Boulay wrote: The clipboard viewer might be some place else. Yes, on Mac OS it's in the Finder Edit menu, but it's not available from Reader/Acrobat... It's not exactly the same thing as the Clipboard viewer on Windows, however... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF] Convert a Word document with a .avi file embedded in it
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 01:17 AM 4/23/2004, Roopa DM wrote: I have a MS Word document containing an .avi file embedded withing it. The same document needs to be converted to .pdf with the embedded document. What are the options? Please let me know. Acrobat 6. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
RE: [PDF-Forms] Saving information in forms
At 12:24 PM 4/20/2004, Rich Sprague wrote: You cannot save a PDF form with Reader, without the extensions embedded in your PDF. And it is expensive. If you know the exact number of people you will be sending the forms to - it's not that expensive (about the same price as equivalent seats of Approval). It's only if you want to allow the form to be used with ANY NUMBER of users that it gets expensive... Leonard --- Leonard Rosenthol mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax)
RE: [PDF-Forms] Saving information in forms
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 03:00 PM 4/20/2004, Rich Sprague wrote: If one is trying to sell the benefit of PDF forms and has to convince a company that it has to spend $39 to use the form, it's not cheap...it's a hard sell -- unless the end user is going to benefit in the long-run. They don't have to pay that to USE the form - they have to pay that to SAVE the form. (unless their form uses extra features like SOAP, ADBC, etc.). Finally, I think the mininum number of seats for the alternative to Approval is 1,000, isn't it? Maybe, but I am NOT recommending Approval. I am talking about Adobe Document Server with Reader Extensions. And, finally finally, isn't the price for the Reader extension several thousands of dollars per form? Again, depends on whether you have fixed number of users or unknown users... I'm just trying to let the poster know that what they are trying to accomplish could be costly. An export solution might be a more cost-effective way to go. Server-based solutions are also good - if that is an option. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
RE: [PDF-Forms] Saving information in forms
At 03:03 PM 4/20/2004, Tim Enney wrote: Does Approval work with Acrobat 6.0 created eForms and/or Designer xdp files? No, that's one of the many reasons to go with Adobe Document Server w/Reader Extensions... If not, what's the recommendation for a comparably prcied solution for = 25 known users in the Acrobat6/Designer paradigm? Adobe Document Server w/Reader Extensions. Contact Adobe Enterprise sales and they'll take care of you. Leonard --- Leonard Rosenthol mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax)
Re: [PDF] PDF Font Encoding
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 02:04 AM 4/16/2004, MN wrote: no these are non english Satluj family Type 1 fonts we are print to postscript , quark 4.0 on wndows 95 And there is your reason... any points on the factors that affect the embedding fonts. Non-Roman Type 1 fonts on a non-Unicode-based OS... There is no other way to encode that information other than Custom... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Word to PDF CID Fonts
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 02:04 PM 4/15/2004, Peter Leyland wrote: Having converted multiple Word files to PDF(Acrobat 6) they fail to print (all look OK on screen and will print OK to an office printer but not to a Postscript RIP -Xerox Docucolor). Is the Docucolor running the latest versions of its RIP software?? I suspect the answer is no, hence the problem. The fonts are embedded within the created pdf document but under File / Document Properties / Fonts (Acrobat 6) they show as follows: Wingdings (Embedded) Type: Truetype CID Encoding: Identity H Absolutely nothing wrong with that. CID fonts have been supported in PDF since Acrobat 3 - HOWEVER many RIPs didn't support them until more recently (hence my comment above). Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF-Basics] Word to PDF CID Fonts
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 02:36 PM 4/15/2004, Peter Leyland wrote: That said why have CID fonts 'suddenly' appeared as if from thin air? Did you change the way you make the PDFs? Update Acrobat or Windows? Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF-Basics] Word to PDF CID Fonts
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 03:23 PM 4/15/2004, Peter Leyland wrote: It would be good to resolve this one especially as we are a so called service provider (print shop). Again, the resolution it make sure you have the latest RIP - as that's the problem... The fact that the PDF has been produced with CID fonts isn't important... Now why do you get those fonts as CID - because Distiller wanted to. Bascially, something about the font in question, the set of characters from that font that you used, etc. made Distiller choose to create a CID font from your TTF font... Distiller does lots of font conversions behind your back - for example, did you know that every Type 1 font that goes into Distiller comes out as a Type1C font in the PDF?? whilst we have PitStop there seems to be no way that that can change a TTF (CID) font to a humble TTF. Nope, there isn't. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF-Basics] Word to PDF CID Fonts
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 04:17 PM 4/15/2004, Peter Leyland wrote: If I use InstantPDF that chooses not to use CID fonts. I think/assume that 'it' still uses distiller - the same one? Never used InstantPDF - so I can't say what/how it works... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF] PDF Font Encoding
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 02:24 AM 4/15/2004, MN wrote: In one of the pdf file i have , under the Document Properties - Font option its shows encoding as Custom any body can tell what does this mean. It means what it says. Instead of using a standard encoding such as MacRoman or WinANSI, it is using a custom encoding. This is quite common when working with subset fonts. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF] PDF Font Encoding
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 08:34 AM 4/15/2004, MN wrote: The pdf contains all the fonts embeded , while creating we are embedding all the fonts. Full embed or subset? What type of font? Type 1? TrueType? OpenType? Can you provide the file for me to look at? Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF] PDF Font Encoding
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 09:25 AM 4/15/2004, MN wrote: We are doing full embed and these are Type 1 fonts. These are English/Roman Type 1 fonts, yes? We are converting the quark file to ps and distilling it to pdf. Are you printing to Postscript? Saving as EPS? What version of Quark on what OS platform? we get the ps file and convert it to pdf, if there a possibility the font info is getting corrupted from quark to ps ? Certainly a possibility! Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
RE: [PDF] Working with Bleed in PDF documents
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 12:39 PM 4/15/2004, David Lewis wrote: Can Pitstop be configured to automatically handle bleed? What does automatically handle bleed mean? Are you looking to just set the BleedBox on a PDF? To add whitespace around a document (and/or add the BleedBox) to give some space? Other? Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
RE: [PDF] Working with Bleed in PDF documents
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At 01:08 PM 4/15/2004, David Lewis wrote:
What does automatically handle bleed mean?
{DRL} Just do it!
Do what?
I guess the bigger question here is what is the purpose of the
PDFs that they need bleed applied to them? Imposition or other layout
placement? Simple printing? What?
If we knew what the intent was, then we would better understand
how/why bleed is necessary.
And then the other part of that is whether the bleed is useful w/o
an associated Trim (or Crop)?
Leonard
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Re: [PDF] RE: Working with Bleed in PDF documents
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 10:59 AM 4/15/2004, selvanponnusamy wrote: We are a newspaper environment using MACS. We receive most of our complete material as PDFs. The problem we are having is that most of these PDFs come to us with bleed/crop/registrations marks included. Question. Other than asking customers or cropping the PDF, is there a way of removing these marks? Sure. There are a number of 3rd party tools that you can purchase that can remove information from a PDF - either manually or in an automated fashion. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] EPS to PDF
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 10:45 AM 4/14/2004, Jane_Edwards wrote: I just tried to convert an EPS to PDF and it was rasterized and looks nasty. Are you sure it is a vector based EPS? What do you get if you drag the .eps onto Distiller? The method I used was (in Acrobat 6.1): File Create PDF From File. That method is 100% equivalent to dragging the file to Distiller - it WILL produce vector-based output. (provided you feed it vector-based input). LDR --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF-Basics] EPS to PDF
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 01:07 PM 4/14/2004, Rich Sprague wrote: My experience is that EPS files converted to PDF always look nasty on screen. They will print okay, however. I don't see why that would be... True, EPS's placed into programs that use the raster-based preview are going to be lame on screen, but Adobe application (and I think Quark) all process the vector data.. This can be tested by taking an Illustrator file with text and making the PDF two ways: 1. Save to PDF. 2. Convert text to paths and save to PDF. The text will always look better when the characters are left as fonts. Yes, but that has NOTHING to do with EPS - that's the removal of the font hinting data (and potential loss of anti-aliasing). Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF-Basics] EPS to PDF
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 10:09 PM 4/14/2004, Rich Sprague wrote: I used to make PDFs of hundreds of magazine pages built with a combination of elements, including EPS logos and fonts that had been converted to paths. With Acrobat 4, the portions of the page with EPS files always looked like crap. Correct, because Acrobat 4 didn't anti-alias vector lines... In Acrobat 5 it was an option, off by default. In Acrobat 6, it's on w/no option to disable. Perhaps some of the fonts were non-commercial varieties, or type 3 (as I remember, they always looked bad in PDFs, no matter where they originated from). Same problem - T3 fonts are either bitmap to begin with OR they are non-hinted vectors that need Anti-aliasing to look good. Actually, Mac OS X Preview has some pretty cool technology in there to do a really nice job of screen rendering Type 3 fonts...Acrobat 6 is better than 5, but not as good as Preview. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF-Basics] press optimised PDFs fail at imagesetter
At 09:00 PM 4/4/2004, Rich Sprague wrote: All I'm saying is that most of the 10s of thousands of freelance designers can't afford or justify the cost of Pitstop Pro. Which is why there are other, lower cost, tools such as Apago's PDF Shrink and PDF Enhancer that can also be used to remove OPI comments (and other potentially problematic elements) from your PDFs. Leonard --- Leonard Rosenthol mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax)
Re: [PDF-Basics] PDF to XML?
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 07:52 AM 4/5/2004, Kenneth Dalenberg wrote: I have a potential client who wants us to convert several pdf documents to one xml document. How do I do this? Desktop or server? Programatically or manually? What OS platform? What XML grammar? PDF content? Form data? Other? Both? Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF] Customizing PSNormalizer Framework in MacOS X 10.3?
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 09:47 AM 4/5/2004, Thomas Kaiser wrote: Anyone out there who managed to use individual setdistillerparams in PostScript jobs within Apple's PSNormalizer framework in MacOS X 10.3? If I alter the contents of startupNORM.ps [1] I'm able to affect the creation of all PDFs from the on via /usr/bin/pstopdf, the CUPS' pstopdffilter or Preview.app. But even if I add /LockDistillerParams false, I'm not able to let the integrated distiller core honour setdistillerparams calls inside ps files. Same with pdfmark. Seems like the operator has been redefined? Correct. It is my understanding that these particular features are disabled in the Apple licensed version of Normalizer, to prevent it's use as a general purpose PDF production tool. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Sending PDFX1a file to printer....need bleeds.
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 12:19 PM 4/2/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if I had them in my Quark file they should have been there. DEPENDS on how you created the PDF from Quark. If you did a direct export from Quark using the built-in PDF creation features, then yes, they should be there. If, however, you printed to Postscript and/or Adobe PDF - then they are lost. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] PDF to XML to XHTML
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 01:56 PM 4/2/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was playing the other day with Acrobat Pro 6 and noticed that it has a save to XML. I am wondering if I can take the XML output and transform it into XHTML - actually, I know that it can be done but is there a DTD for this form of XML that I can use? You could do that OR you could just export as XHTML directly from Acrobat. Look in the Save As menu again ;). Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Panther printing to raster printer
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 07:45 AM 4/1/2004, Mauro Boscarol wrote: I think the printing path of Acrobat 6.0.1 in Panther (raster CUPS printer) is the same as prepress applications (Photoshop, FreeHand, Illustrator, Quark, etc.) in Jaguar, i.e. No, that is not correct. Acrobat 6.0.1 uses a NEW API call in Panther to be able PS directly into the print stream for it to work on all printers in a more compatible way than previous versions. Acrobat 6.0 and the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite (can't speak for other applications) will check if the printer is PS and if so, send PS - otherwise it pre-rasterizes the data and sends a raster image to the printer. Now in Panther prepress applications follows the path Again, there are some new API calls for Panther that an application MAY choose to take. You can send PS to non-PS printers, you can even send a raw PDF into the system. Acrobat does NOT send raw PDF, because Acrobat supports a LOT more PDF features than Quartz does and therefore just can't pass it along - BUT it can send PS along... but Acrobat 6.0.1 prints the other way (and in fact don't support Save PDF nor Preview). Nor do any of the Adobe CS applications or Quark. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF] Acrobat 6 files don't open with reader 5 in browser
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 12:52 AM 4/1/2004, Schuitz Grafik Design wrote: I was used to do both from Acrobat 5: show page and thumnails - and it worked always fine. Actually, it has NEVER worked fine - you just got lucky with certain factors all coming together to make things appear that way... So with Acrobat 6 I should NOT embed thumbnails AND use option 'fast web view' with option 'open page and thumbs' ? You shouldn't have embedded thumbs for Acrobat 5 either... And then, I would be sure to NOT enable Fast Web View on any document that you wish to have the thumbs/pages pane open at startup. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF] embedding v/s not embedding font
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 02:50 AM 3/31/2004, MN wrote: what could be the scenarios under which we should embed or not embed the fonts in a pdf. if any one can list out advantage/ disadvantages for this or any link on such resource will be very useful. It's simple... ALWAYS EMBED FONTS! There are NO good reasons to avoid font embedding, and LOTS of reasons TO embed. All of the new PDF standards (PDF/X, PDF/A, etc.) all REQUIRE embedded fonts... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF] Newbie Needs Life saver
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 02:42 AM 3/31/2004, Brady Rich wrote: I have a document, pdf, 10 pages lets say page 4 and page 7 are A3 and all other pages are A4, I have a laser color printer with both A3 and A4 trays. How can i sed the job to the printer and let it do the sorting its self. I know i can run two runs one with pages 1,2,3,5,6,8,9 and 10 and the other to the A3 with 4 and 7 but then i am alsoworking with 100 page docs and this can get take a while to set up and can be a little messy with 15 copies i need a lot of real estate and time to put them back together. Any one any great ideas. In Acrobat 6 (may be in earlier versions, but I don't think so) for Windows, there is a checkbox in the Acrobat print dialog Choose Paper Source by PDF Page Size. Just check that and the right thing will happen - or should... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF] PDF Shareware/Freeware
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 06:24 AM 3/31/2004, Kenton Smith wrote: I am willing to spend money to make my life easier, my customers are not willing to spend money to make my life easier. In that case, I would look at products such as Adobe's JobReader, Jaws Courier and the like which are programs for creating and distributing PDF creation tools locked down to your settings. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF] PDF Shareware/Freeware
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 06:56 AM 3/31/2004, Andrew Clark wrote: I couldn't find any details of JobReader on the Adobe site. Sorry, JobReady. (have Reader on the brain ;). Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF] Acrobat 6 files don't open with reader 5 in browser
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 10:59 AM 3/31/2004, Schuitz Grafik Design wrote: when I use Acrobat 6 (Windows) to generate a PDF file with thumbnails and the option to open the file in a view thumbnails and page it is no problem to open the file with Acrobat reader 5. When this file is opened through a MS-Internetexplorer on the web with Acrobat Reader 5 installed it does not open. Is this an incompatibility or did I made something wrong with the settings? You NEVER want to have a PDF that is Fast Web View enabled and ALSO has the Show Thumbnails setting enabled - the two settings are at odds with each other. Since you seem to want to use thumbnails, which you no longer need to forcibly embed, since Reader 5 later will auto-generate them - then make sure you do NOT save with Fast Web View enabled. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Panther printing to raster printer
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 01:35 AM 3/30/2004, Mauro Boscarol wrote: I have a question regarding Mac OS X Panther printing to non-PostScript (raster) printers. OK. Can someone confirm that the CUPS printing way, for any application (native Cocoa, non-prepress Carbon applications, prepress Carbon applications), is the same, i.e. PDF - raster - printer - backend I am not sure what the printer in your diagram is, since the hardware itself would be at the end of the process - but otherwise, that's generally the idea. With Panther it is also possible to have Postscript come in the front end of the process, which is then converted to PDF and then continues down the rest of the path. (except perhaps for Acrobat 6)? Acrobat 6.0, along with the rest of the Creative Suite, will send raster images directly and skip the PDF step. Acrobat 6.0.1 sends Postscript for the Postscript path... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Panther printing to raster printer
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 06:08 AM 3/30/2004, Mauro Boscarol wrote: With Panther it is also possible to have Postscript come in the front end of the process, which is then converted to PDF and then continues down the rest of the path. As to my tests, applications like Photoshop (7 and CS), Freehand (MX), InDesign (2) and so on, follows the way PICTwPS - raster in Jaguar, and PDF - raster in Panther. Correct, because none of them have been updated ot support the new functionality in Panther. Can you tell me an application that generates PostScript for a raster printer in Panther? Or it is only a theoretical possibility? Acrobat 6.0.1... In my tests, Acrobat 6.0.1 in Panther sends PostScript for the *raster* path also. Can you confirm? Correct - because there is now a PS-PDF conversion engine in the OS, so it can send the PS, which CUPS can either convert to PDF and then rasterize and then send to the printer. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF] Converting Word Docs to PDFs
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 04:43 AM 3/30/2004, Aruna Aysola wrote: They are all fine. I am making a CD consisting of all these pdfs. I made a single pdf consisting all the pdfs (through insert-page). I have version 6 of Acrobat and the CD looks fine on my computer. The same CD on a computer which has version 4 of Acrobat Reader - some of the heading fonts go funny. This is due to font conflicts during the merge process that Acrobat was unable to resolve :(. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
RE: [PDF-Basics] Accessible PDFs - information where?
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 09:22 AM 3/29/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Acrobat 5 has a tag called TH Table Header Cell Element but I have played with Word 2002 but cannot get Word 2002 to generate this tag. Correct - you'll want Acrobat 6 in order to create that tag automatically... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF] Converting Word Docs to PDFs
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 12:30 PM 3/29/2004, Rich Sprague wrote: A. System fonts (Times New Roman and Arial) do not need to be embedded. ALL FONTS SHOULD BE EMBEDDED!!! Even system fonts such as Times Helvetica/Arial vary from Mac to Windows, and EVEN FROM version to version (Win98 vs. Win2K, etc.). This is why the ISO standards based on PDF (PDF/X and PDF/A) require ALL fonts to be embedded... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Filling out saving a PDF form using Reader
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 08:42 AM 3/26/2004, James Plante wrote: Adobe can either wake up and provide the functionality which its customers want, or risk losing those customers to the open source programs. There are already several PDF creation programs available free. It's just a matter of time before those become extended to provide the additional functionality that users want. Doubtful. There are both legal and technical hurdles that prevent any 3rd party from implementing a 100% Acrobat compatible PDF-based forms solutions... To stop any conspiracy theorists out there, I will point out that such hurdles were NOT put there on purpose by Adobe to prevent duplication - just worked out that way... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Filling out saving a PDF form using Reader
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 10:58 AM 3/26/2004, James Plante wrote: There are technical and legal hurdles to implementing translators for MS Word files, too, Not at all! The Word file format is documented by MSFT, and you can acquire a copy of the documentation w/o any problem either directly from MSFT or included in the CVS trees for OpenOffice and AbiWord. My hope is that Adobe will find a way to offer this capability to their Reader users at an economically affordable cost The real question remains - where does the cost model go...Should the creator of the form pay the $$ or the user of the form? If the former, how would Adobe see revenue on a form with wide (unlimited) distribution? If the latter, would you be willing to put your credit card number into Acrobat each time you found a form you wanted to fill out? And that, in my understanding, is where the issue are. They are social, not technical ones... --preferably before they get supplanted by an open source solution rather than in reaction to one. As I said, it won't/can't happen...(not that it shouldn't, but that it can't) At least not as long as the developers of said project are willing to say on the good side of the legal system... Face it: $40 a copy didn't work well with Approval, so sales are low. Sales were low because it was never properly marketed(we've had this discussion before - see online archives) Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Filling out saving a PDF form using Reader
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 01:15 PM 3/26/2004, Robert Ameeti wrote: The real question remains - where does the cost model go...Should the creator of the form pay the $$ or the user of the form? The user. Most always. Spread the cost to those that need it. IF this discussion were ONLY about saving foms, then yes - I agree. HOWEVER, for the other features of Reader (when Extended), putting the cost on the user won't work. The creator NEEDS to know that their customer can do something (comment, digitally sign, use SOAP or ADBC, etc.) Each time? No. One time purchase of the ability to fill out this form and Save it. But how is that different from you going out and buying Approval today?? True, having a button/menu right in Reader that connects to some site at Adobe, conducts the transaction then enables that feature (or potentially other features) in your program, would make it more common for users to do so... And again, that only addresses a single feature...of course, maybe Adobe lets you buy these features piecemeal. I'd like Saving and DigSig for my Reader, but no commenting. And this is where I feel it should be obligated to share and allow others to work with this industry standard format. Else we have a monopoly and that ain't right. The file format is open and published - however, Adobe, has extended the format to add additional functionality (JavaScripting). Many aspects of this extended feature are documented, but there are a lot of others that are not - hence the problem. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Illustrator 8 to PDF through Distiller problem
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 03:31 PM 3/26/2004, Eric Porlier wrote: I'm trying to convert 125 Adobe Illustrator files into PDF files. The creator used Illustrator 8 and I have Acrobat 5.05 with the Distiller coming along with it. Note that if I'm using the PDFMaker of Illustrator (save as) to generate the PDF, everything is working fine, but I have to go through each and everyone of the 125 files individually, instead of dropping all the files at once in Distiller... First, Distiller can't handle native Illustrator files. So that isn't a valid approach anyway. Second, if you upgrade to Illustrator 9 or later, then you can use the batch/automation features to convert all 125 directly - this would be the BEST option. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
[PDF-Forms] Re: Rép. : Re: [PDF-Forms] Illustrator 8 to PDF through Distiller problem
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 04:23 PM 3/26/2004, Eric Porlier wrote: Thanks, though I'd prefer to consider another option then changing my Illustrator version. DocConverter from ActivePDF (http://www.activepdf.com) is a great tool for batch conversions of many different file formats to PDF. But given that you are three(!) versions behind on Illustrator, upgrading would seem like a good idea for MANY reasons... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Avoiding print menues with plugin using VB6
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 08:56 AM 3/25/2004, Ekart Schuberth wrote: I am still struggling with the print menues that appear on right mouse click in a document. There isn't anything you can do about that - it's there... With a plugin the printing should be controlled. Has anybody experience to build a pluging using Visual Basic 6 and knows how to start doing this? if you mean an Acrobat plugin, they can only be written in Visual C/C++... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
RE: [PDF-Basics] CID fonts
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 10:04 AM 3/24/2004, Greg Onder wrote: How can one id a cid font? Is there a way to see this info from ATM? They don't appear in the wild, they are only found in Postscript and PDF files. If you do a File-Document Properties on a PDF, and look at the Fonts panel, it will show you the font type. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Powerpoint PDF bloated
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 01:49 PM 3/23/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, his first attempt was with a 49Kb PowerPoint presentation which, when he printed to Distiller, created a 35Mb!!! PDF. Can anyone suggest why this occurred and how to get around it? I don't have a copy of the presentation and he is in a meeting at the moment so until he is out, I can't provide a copy of the presentation. In addition to the comments provided by others, there are two things that can be used in PPT that can cause bloat when creating PDFs... 1) Gradiants, esp. as the slide background. 2) Transparency - either from images or drop shadows. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Print This Page
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 06:04 AM 3/20/2004, Max Wyss wrote: A little bit of RTFM shows that, in order for the starting and ending number to work, the bUI parameter must be false. And Experience shows that -- unlike some other parameters -- these two parameters are not passed to the print dialog box. That is only true with Acrobat 5 OR the old print call. IF you are using Acrobat 6 AND the newer printParams structure, then you can set ALL of the parameters AND still bring up the UI.. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] readability
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 08:50 AM 3/19/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am creating promotional material for a web site and converting them to PDFs. I show many screen captures on these PDFs and the problem I am running into is the sharpness of the shots on screen. When I print them it is very legible, but not on screen. I have save them in all different formats and at all different resolutions be with the same results. Is just the nature of the beast. What version of Adobe Acrobat are you using to view the PDFs? Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Printing Publisher Booklet in PDF Format
At 12:22 PM 3/18/2004, Kory Hagler wrote: Is there a way to do booklet printing in a PDF document besides redoing my Publisher file by copy and paste? Since you don't have Acrobat, you'll need to look at 3rd party tools such as our PDF Enhancer (http://www.apago.com/enhancer.html) for creating booklets from PDF documents. Leonard --- Leonard Rosenthol mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax)
Re: [PDF-Basics] PDF server app. Mac
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 09:11 AM 3/17/2004, BILL PENMAN wrote: Creates PDF's over the network If you mean something like a document conversion solution, then there aren't any. If you are looking for a simple Postscript-PDF conversion tool, then both Ghostscript and PStill are available for Mac OS X. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF] new font
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 04:28 AM 3/16/2004, Lewis Hamer wrote: however one of our staff has created their own Math font for use within Word. Can anyone envisage any potential problems when creating pdf using custom built font?? As long as the font does NOT have the same name as a standard font AND the font is properly embedded in the PDF - it should be just fine. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF] Embed PDF Into PDF
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 08:08 AM 3/16/2004, Salman Khilji wrote: Basically I am wondering how to embed one PDF into another Are you embedding it for viewing purposes (as a separate page or part of a page) or for reference purposes (like embedding a word or Excel file)?? Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Photoshop to PDF
At 10:22 AM 3/15/2004, andym wrote: Yes, I am creating the entire document in Photoshop. I normally design the page one layer at a time, then merge them all to create a final flat image / document. A lot of graphics and photo manipulation is carried out. That's your problem! First, Photoshop is not the best tool for creating brochures or material to be distributed online - since the elements are rasterized and therefore potentially large. Second, if you do choose to use Photoshop - do NOT flatten before PDF generation. When you leave vector and text layers intact, Photoshop is able to leave those as vector/text elements in the PDF thus keeping the final document smaller! Anybody know how the professionals are able to get a full colour brouchure onto a resonable sized PDF file? Sure - do NOT use Photoshop. Use Illustrator, InDesign, or Quark... Leonard --- Leonard Rosenthol mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax)
RE: [PDF-Basics] Photoshop to PDF
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 10:50 AM 3/15/2004, Rich Sprague wrote: I haven't heard anyone say that they know how to create a high-quality, 8.5 x 11, full-color sheet, created in Photoshop, which will be less than 500k. Depending on what is actually on the brochure and what it looks like, there MAY be two options if someone really insists of a 8.5x11 raster image. 1) Use the new Adaptive Compression options in the PDF Optimizer of Acrobat 6 - esp. with Acrobat 6 compatibility (so it uses JPEG2000). 2) Check out the new 3.0 release of PDFCompressor from CVision. They've done some pretty cool work with color scan - it the same general idea as Adobe's Adaptive Compressor, only better. NOTE: both of these techniques are ONLY good for 100% scans, they are NOT for mixed raster/vector/text documents... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] PDF Reduction
At 06:03 PM 3/15/2004, John Fitzgerald wrote: I am trying to take a PDF file (scanned images, 8 ½ x 11) and scale down/reduce the image to increase the margins to 1 minimum on all sides. However, the only method I have been able to find in Acrobat 5.0 (and 6.0) is to change the output size and indicate it should print to a 7.5 x 10 output size, and then I get some shrinkage, but it also changes the paper size. I think I may be overlooking something obvious is there an easier way? PDF Enhancer (http://www.apago.com/enhancer.html) can do this for you... Leonard --- Leonard Rosenthol mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax)
Re: [PDF-Basics] Acrobat 6 and ICC issue.HELP!!!
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 01:39 PM 3/10/2004, Greg Bullock wrote: Most printers do not want color profiles on their PDF files. Depends on the workflow - hence the difference between PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF] RGB photos
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 08:35 PM 3/9/2004, Rich Sprague wrote: We have PDF file created from Pagemaker 6.5. The PDF needs to be greyscale for printing purposes. Most of the images in the PDF are RGB. Is there any easy way to change all the photos in the PDF to grayscale without going back to the customer and making them convert all the photos in the original Pagemaker document? PDF Enhancer - http://www.apago.com/enhancer.html Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
RE: [PDF] RGB photos
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 10:10 PM 3/9/2004, Rich Sprague wrote: The Print to PDF feature now utilized by Windows XP, and Mac OS X, makes redistilling and downsampling a piece of cake. But it does NOT make redistillation any better - it is still the WRONG WAY to apply corrective/adjustive changes to a PDF! Native PDF processing tools such as PDF Optimizer, PDF Enhancer, QABOT, PitStop, etc. should be used instead so as to maintain the integrity and fidelity of the original document. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF] eBook files for OverDrive's Content Reserve
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 03:13 AM 3/9/2004, IIT L Ritt wrote: Indesign creates a native pdf and version 2 only supports 40 bit encryption. I don't recall that being the case - ID2 supported Acrobat 5's 128bit encryption. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] pdf writer for an old Mac
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 05:49 AM 3/5/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to acquire a version of Acrobat which I can use on a rather old Mac. Specifically, I want to be able to convert Word documents created in Word 5.1a (Mac), using some foreign fonts, into pdf/Acrobat document. The OS I am using is 7.5.3 (on a Performa 630). If all you want to do is create PDFs, then check out PrintToPDF (http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/pdf.html). Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] pdf writer for an old Mac
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 04:42 PM 3/5/2004, JR Boulay wrote: Yes, only 2 choices for Bernard : PDFWriter/Distiller Which would require an old copy of Acrobat - which you can't get... or printing to PostScript + GhostScript and Mac GS View... Finding an old version GS and/or Mac GSView is going ot have the same issues... LDR --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF] Scrunched print
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 11:33 AM 3/5/2004, Mike Thomas wrote: In converting a Word file to pdf the resulting pdf file prints some letters of some words in the doc on top of each other. For example, the word Question prints with the Q, U, E, S stacked on top of each other then the rest of the letters in the word Question print fine. Is the scrunching happening on screen or on printer? If the latter, make sure that you have the current version of the printer driver for your printers - old drivers have bugs that Acrobat tends to bring up since it really pushes printing. As a last resort, use the Print as Image option in the Acrobat print dialog. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF] Scrunched print
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 03:01 PM 3/5/2004, Susan Amirian wrote: We only create digital documents -- so for us it is on screen scrunching. But I didn't post this problem originally. In that case, you probably forgot to embed the fonts in your document... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Forms] Printing 2 or more acrobat pages on 1 page?
At 01:30 PM 3/4/2004, Scott Savage wrote: Does anyone know how to print more than one page on a page? I have a customer who wants to print his 33 page Acrobat file so that 2 or 4 are on a page, kind of like a thumbnail approach perhaps. He doesn't want to extract each page and try and import them into word or powerpoint. Some printer drivers have this feature built in - if your does not, then you can use a tool such as PDF Enhancer (http://www.apago.com/enhancer.html) to create a new PDF with the required layout and then print that. Leonard --- Leonard Rosenthol mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax)
Re: [PDF-Basics] Passing a PDF in Memory to Reader or Acrobat
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 10:44 AM 3/3/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are going to be storing our PDF's as Blob objects in our Oracle database and instead of having to save the PDF when retrieved through an SQL Select to a temporary file, we would like to store it in memory and pass the memory object to the Reader or Acrobat. This can only be done via a custom plugin for Acrobat - but yes, it can be done... No, I am not aware of any that already exist that you could purchase, but there are anumber of companies that could develop one for you. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Silly Q?
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 12:45 PM 3/3/2004, Peter Puusa wrote: Thanks again for your efforts . . . but I've obviously missed something on the install process. (I used the default/recommended install.) I don't seem to have an Adobe PDF menu in Word. Reinstall Acrobat! Also, make sure that you are current. Acrobat 6.0.1 is the current version and before that was 5.0.5... Actually now that I've moved up from v.4.bug to v.5.0 I just realized there is no longer a PDF writer option under print, just the distiller? Correct. PDFWriter is dead - YEAH!!! Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Acrobat 6 and ICC issue.HELP!!!
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 05:02 PM 3/3/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No color management on, all job options have been used that come with acro 6, and even some taken of the enfocus certified website. How are you generating the PS file? What is your original authoring application? ICC profiles if in the original native file will carry on throug h to the PDF file keeping the same info. Depends on the workflow... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF-Basics] Placing a TIFF/IT in a PDF
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 04:55 PM 3/3/2004, Jim Woodruff wrote: I tried what you suggested below and the ct portion of the Tiff/it converts but it ignores the lw. Any thoughts? Ah, didn't release you were using the CT/LW components of TIFF/IT - most folks just use it as a standard TIFF. In that case, you'll need software such as Apago's Piktor or Pheon (http://www.apago.com). They are FULLY TIFF/IT aware (with full CT/LW support) and can do proper conversion. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF] Link and button questions
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 05:02 AM 3/3/2004, Raymond Weisling wrote: 1. Why aren't link annotations supported in the JavaScript language extension? They are in Acrobat 6. They are first class citizens and you can do all sorts of neat things with them... 3. I'm getting errors on the Mac when opening documents with the try ...catch(x) exception handling. Is it really Acrobat Reader 5, and not 5.05 or 5.1? Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] [pdf basics]
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 12:11 PM 3/2/2004, Matt Pegan wrote: I need a program to convert .pdf to .rtf that is capable of converting symbols. For example, the 'micro' symbol (as in micrograms). Have you tried Acrobat 6's export feature? Or how about BCL's Drake product? Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF-Basics] Postscript generation in Mac OS X
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 08:30 PM 2/29/2004, Rich Sprague wrote: Thank you, Leonard, for your extensive explanation. I honestly am not sure if it answers the question about the difference between the three different PDFs I tested today, or muddies the water. Some of both... As I think I said in another related message, IF you are using an Adobe CS application AND your only intent for the produced PDF is print (and NOT screen/web), then you will indeed be fine going the PS-PDF route on Mac OS X (usually via the Adobe PDF printer, just because it's easier). It's a larger issue when using native Mac OS X applications or going to screen/web. This is just an incredible can of worms. People make PDFs by PSing and distilling, by printing to the Adobe printer, by exporting using the PDF Library, with Ghostscript. and who knows how many other programs? In general, most people shouldn't care. A PDF is a PDF is a PDF - it should just work.. The biggest issues for printers are enough in themselves to cope with: are the fonts embedded, is the resolution correct, is the file CMYK, and will it RIP? Right - certainly people or industries have particular requirements for the PDFs that they have to process/consume. That's why there are tools such as preflighters (Acrobat 6, PitStop, PDF/X Checkup) and correction/enhancers (PDF Enhancer, PitStop). If, in fact, the only way to correctly make a PDF is to print to Adobe PDF, But it's not! There is no only one correct way... And if we're all supposed to put on the brakes and start using one method only, what happens when something better comes along? Which is also my argument for the folks that say the only way is to go Postscript to Distiller ;). Sure, that used to be best (when the alternative was PDFWriter), but now there is a better option - direct application export. So now we should move to that, when available. I don't think people are prepared to change their workflows (or habits) that rapidly. Agreed, but people should try it and not be afraid of it... When a magazine calls and says send a PDF, they don't ask how it was made...they're mainly interested in the fact that one uses the Press Quality job options. I 100% agree! Unfortunately, some people ARE telling folks how to make them as well - based on their own PERSONAL workflow/habits, hence the propagation of the myths... I go back to something I said many threads ago. It's best to discuss production issues between the vendor and the customer, and develop a workflow that works for both parties. Definitely!!! Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] PDF's from CS
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 08:53 PM 2/29/2004, Jason Paul wrote: Our workflow uses preps for imposition. I wonder if the internal postscript and pdf interpreters (which are Acro4) are more to blame than the rip software. Yup, that will indeed be the culprit!!! You are trying to take slightly more modern PDFs through an ANCIENT system...at which point, all bets are off... I am currently looking into upgrading preps to see if it makes any difference. Should! Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Postscript generation in Mac OS X
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 12:53 PM 3/1/2004, Chris Rees wrote: 2) If I'm going to press, my first choice would be to use the print Adobe PDF printer. If I don't have that option, I would PostScript and Distill. Whereas when I'm going to press, my first choice would be to PS and Distill. Given that Adobe PDF printer is EXACTLY THE SAME as doing PS Distill - why would you go to all the extra work?!?! Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF-Basics] Postscript generation in Mac OS X
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 12:31 PM 3/1/2004, Rich Sprague wrote: 2) If I'm going to press, my first choice would be to use the print Adobe PDF printer. If I don't have that option, I would PostScript and Distill. I would export first, unless I was dealing with a printer with outdated equipment that couldn't handle things such as CID fonts... Then, yes, I would fall back to the Adobe PDF Printer. 3) For web or screen viewing, I would feel safe with the export capability in InDesign. PDF files made with the export feature in InDesign and Photoshop will be larger than their print to Adobe PDF counterparts. True, which is why Acrobat 6's PDFOptimizer or Apago's PDF Enhancer are worthwhile options for repurposing documents... 4) From Word, I use the PDF Maker. On Windows. On the Mac, it doesn't really matter. And, PDFMaker is really a wrapper around Word-PS printer-PS-Distiller-PDF + patches to the PDF. So you end up with the same quality result via Distiller/Adobe PDF printer but with the extras. 5) I would never, ever, export a PDF from either Quark or Corel Draw. I've found that Quark 6 and Jaws produces much better quality that I expected, so it's a reasonable option. CorelDraw on Windows is quite acceptable even for print quality documents - it correctly handles CMYK Spots just fine. (I think it even does DeviceN, but haven't tried personally). Neither is optimal PDF, but functionally it is just fine. But again, that's why there are tools like PDF Optimizer PDF Enhancer - to optimize/enhance the document! Yesterday I made a post wherein the exported Quark PDF for a single 4-color page was 35 MB, or over 10 times the size of a PDF made by PSing and Distilling. Yeah, Quark puts a lot of silly things into PDFs that PDF Enhancer is savvy about and able to remove. Try running that document through Enhancer and see what you get ;). Corel has all sorts of cute features built in its program (including the lens tool) which make huge PDFs that rips often choke to death on. No more or less so than Illustrator... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF-Basics] PDF's from CS
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 05:04 AM 2/21/2004, Rich Sprague wrote: It sounds like my old adage of PostScript-it and Distill-it still is the tried and true method of making PDFs. Yes, but I suspect that's because people have habits are aren't willing to change them. Which is unfortunate, because this method is NOT a good idea on Mac OS X because of the way the print architecture works on that system. You will get Postscript that will generate a less-then-top-quality PDF... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] PDF's from CS
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 07:50 PM 2/20/2004, Jason Paul wrote: As a printer who has the latest most up to date RIP,( AGFA Apogee series 3,soon moving to Apogee X) Pdf's prepared by exporting from any application do not always print correctly, (if at all). Why? What EXACTLY are the errors?? Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
[PDF-Basics] Postscript generation in Mac OS X
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 07:44 AM 2/29/2004, Rich Sprague wrote: Could you please explain your rationale, here, so people can understand why you are making this claim? Postscript generation in Mac OS X takes a strange a indirect path, unlike generation of PS on Mac OS 9...AND things changed between 10.2 and 10.3... On 9, applications either printed directly in Postscript (in which case it was written directly to disk) OR they printed in QuickDraw which was converted in the PS driver to PS and then written/printed. In OS X, applications can print either in PS in PICT (one PICT file, PER PAGE, with embedded Postscript), or Quartz. In the latter case, Quartz is converted to PDF and then PDF is sent to the printing system - and to get Postscript, the PDF is converted to Postscript and then fed to the PS printer driver. In the former case, the PICTs are unwrapped and the PS data is sent to the driver along with job-level instructions and then printed/saved. Since the apps can't write entire jobs of PS, only page-level PS, it's not possible to send a pure PS stream to the printer as it was in 9. With 10.3, things got even more interesting when Apple made two more changes to the print system. First, they added the ability to send a PDF directly from an application to the printer - this is what Acrobat 6.0.1 does, thus speeding up printing to non-PS printers. Second, the integrated Adobe Normalizer providing a PS-PDF conversion in the printing system to allow printing of PS from apps like Quark and Illustrator to non-PS printers. Bottom line - there is NO WAY for an application in OS X to produce the EXACT STREAM of PS that will be sent to the printer as there was in OS 9 - and as such, it should be considered tainted. Even more important is that the PDF-PS process used for non-PS generating application (ie. anything that isn't prepress, or that is written in Cocoa) will create PS that if then fed back into Distiller will generate poor quality PDFs - most esp. with non-searchable fonts :(. So, if you are using Mac OS X, and your goal is high quality PDF - go DIRECTLY from your authoring application! Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
RE: [PDF-Forms] MenuItems hidden but print menue appears on right click on the form
PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 02:01 AM 2/29/2004, Ed Patterson wrote: Following is an abstract from Adobe Acrobat SDK support documentation. You are reading old documentation...Acrobat 6 plugins have direct support for right mouse clicks. HOWEVER, that assumes they are the current tool... But either way, yes, a plugin could be written to solve this problem... Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
Re: [PDF] Bulk TIFF Processing
The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __ At 06:40 AM 2/27/2004, Vijay Ayyappan wrote: Thanks for your reply and I have answered your queries below: In that case, I would look at standard image processing tools such as LeadTools or the like to deal with teh TIFF images as standalone. Many of them will also do PDF conversion. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] Web Page Capture
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 08:43 AM 2/27/2004, Gary Gunrud wrote: I recent captured a web page using the web capture feature in Adobe Acrobat 5. However, the resulting PDF document was too large to e-mail to a friend. Is there any way to reduce the size of a PDF document generated using the web page capture feature and still maintain functional hyperlinks within the document? PDF Enhancer - http://www.apago.com/enhancer.html Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
Re: [PDF-Basics] PDF Documents - Security Features
PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __ At 09:28 AM 2/26/2004, Gary Gunrud wrote: When you create a PDF document with Adobe Acrobat and add security features to the document to prevent others from saving, copying, or printing the document, these security features can be simply defeated by doing a screen capture with Windows. True. Is there any way to overcome this security weakness with PDF documents that you want to be more secure? Sure, invest in more secure solutions such as PageRecall from Authentica (http://www.authentica.com). It's the only one that blocks screen capture. Leonard --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technical Officer http://www.pdfsages.com PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
