About Glenn Fraller Expertise Even though I am donating my time to AllEperts.com and I am an Expert, this does NOT mean I know ALL the answers to ALL questions! It seems to me today, people seem to want too much from certain people. I am here because I want to help lead people in a direction I would go. My expertise is limited to Adobe Acrobat 5 (PC) and Acrobat 7 Professional (MAC). If you have version 8 (PC) or (MAC) I, now I am speaking for me only, I would read the help file(s) and research on the Internet every where until I found and understood the solution to my challenge.
Experience Every business day I use Enfocus Pitstop, a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat 5 (PC) and Professional 7 (MAC). Without it, there isn't that much that can be done without the hassel of opening the PDF within Adobe Illustrator. Then there are font issues! Education/Credentials Degreed in Industrial Education and Technology, School of Graphic Communications and work in the prepress field everyday as a toubleshooter.
Question Hi, i have distiller 5.0 windows, & also use Quark Xpress desk top publisher 5.0. i have been having problems when i convert a mostly text doc to pdf, then put it into the QuarkXpress, once i have the pdf in the Quark, since it is lower resolution on the screen, i convert the Quark page to a pdf again to check that all is ok. but at that point sometimes the text does not come out right, some of it squishes together, or the bold type does not show up. if i got a new version of acrobat distiller, do you think this would help this problem ? or is there some way to embed the fonts while distilling to the pdf ?? thanks !
Answer Good Morning June,
OK, first, is the "text doc" you are converting from WORD or where?
And are you printing the "text doc" to a PS or PRN file TO DISK then distilling?
Yes, I know the resolution problem of Quark and it is bad, but why are you going through another processing to check the file? Why not send the file from Quark to a printer to check it? You are not keeping it simple. You are compounding technology. Don't get me wrong, there are definite times when re-processing is needed, but there are ways NOT to corrupt the technology that makes up a good PDF.
Here is another way. The file you converted to PDF, do you have Photoshop? If you do, open the PDF, set to parameters to GRAYSCALE (if B&W or RGB to color - that is for more color data BEFORE converting to CMYK) and 900dpi. Bear with me. Once the file is rasterized separate the type from graphics. SAVE AS (a different name) the "type" file as a BMP/TIF. Reopen the original PDF and do the same routine, but this time save the graphics as 300dpi to a separate file. In Quark, import or place and arrange the files. This eliminates all font problems and the type is sharp at 900dpi. Hope you can follow these, but if you don't have Photoshop - never mind.
