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Hi, Deron --
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:26:17 -0600
> From: Grasshopper Support <support@grasshopperllc.com>
> Subject: Re: PDF questions...
>
>
> >1) It seems that some of the options (can't remember which ones -- I
think
> >it's the type of encoding) for PDF export will create a file which is
> >deemed corrupt or unreadable by Adobe Acrobat for Windows. Any
> >documentation on what those options mean?
>
> Are you transfering from Amiga to Windows via email? It is not uncommon
for
> the emailer on the Amiga to label it as "text" and the receiver will
> translate LF's to CR/LF's. This will trash a PDF file. While the PDF file
> can be plain ascii and readable like source code in a text editor, the
> exact byte offset for PDF objects (not the same as an object in
> PageStream) is put into an index to find these items. If the single byte
is
> inserted anywhere in the file, the file is junk.
That must have been the problem. As a test, I sent the files to my office PC
via the YAM e-mailer...
>
> Most likely if you compress it and encode it as binary, I would bet your
> emailer is labeling it as binary and this problem doesn't occur. Just
> depends on your emailer. I've not had any problems other than this, but of
> course anything is possible.
No, I think you've nailed it. And Steve Bowman, in another post, explained
how to configure YAM's MIME types to handle PDF's...
>
> For help with your email app, just ask here. Several have had to struggle
> with this here!
>
> >2) It seems that PDF export substitutes standard postscript fonts for any
> >non-standard (e.g., "deco") postscipt fonts that you have in a document.
Is
> >there any way to get PDF to save or embed the actual fonts you have in
the
> >original document, even if they're not part of the "standard" PS font
> >group?
>
> Sorry, at this time we do not encode additional fonts. The fonts must be
> installed and visable to the PDF viewer to work properly. Yes it is
> something planned to add, and no I can't say when 
>
I thought I read of some alternative way to embed non-standard postscript
fonts in a PDF document on this list... something involving ghostscript,
perhaps?...
> >3) Why might a jpg graphic embedded in a document come out much smaller
than
> >the original in a PDF exported file. I have one JPG logo in a lot of my
> >documents which does this.
>
> I assume you are talking about the display size? I would bet that you have
> cropped the graphic in PageStream, which is not supported in PDF output.
>
Not cropped, IIRC, but resized in PgS much smaller than the original, which
was very large. Is that also not supported in PDF output?
Thanks,
Steve
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