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About Michael Jahn
Expertise
Any and all questions related to creating and modifying PDF files for use in prepress and printing environments.
Experience
After being a director of a prepress company, I was involved in development and was product manager to several prepress products related to PDF creation, production and submission to high end printing environments.
Organizations
PODi, IPA, Acrobat Users Group, (and was technical director of SGAUA - the Scitex Graphic Arts User Association - what we used to call the Floor Top Publishing systems back in the 80's!
Publications
GATF World
http://www.gain.net/eweb/upload/pubcatalog_lo2.pdf
Dynamic Graphics magazine
http://www.dynamicgraphics.com/
Education/Credentials
BS in Biomedical communications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors
AGFA's PDF Evangelist - was honored to receive, of behalf of AGFA, an award for shipping the 1st PostScript 3 RIP (AGFA Taipan) from Adobe
Past/Present Clients
I have been a consultant to many developers. SGAUA (Scitex), 4-Sight, AGFA, Enfocus, Pantone, and currently, ELAN GMK
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You are here: Experts > Jobs/Careers > Technical Writing > Adobe Acrobat > Printing
Expert: Michael Jahn
Date: 6/1/2007
Subject: Printing
Question
I am a fellow allexperts.com expert (in law of Nonprofit Organizations)
I have been using Adobe Acrobat Professional after I download the .pdf forms that US Immigration has online. I go offline into Adobe Acrobat Professional and have no problem with the I-130, I-485 and other forms but, with the I-864 Affidavit of Support form it always prints what I type in very faintly. Any ideas?
Harvey Mechanic
Attorney At Law
Los Angeles
Answer
another update Friday, June 1st, 4:41pm PST...
yep, as I suspected - the reason you like the 1-130 form is that when the user types it uses Times Roman 10 point, and this font will indeed print more legibly as the characters have thicker stems, strokes and arms (font lingo for the vertical of an L, the diagonal of an N or a horizontal of an H...
Update Friday, June 1st, 4:33pm PST...
I was able to open the form and see that the text is 100 percent black in color, but the type style that is forced is Courier 10 points. This is probably not going to print very dark - you could change this on all the text boxes to Ariel or some other font, or change the type to a bold style...
- Hi Harvey,
Without seeing this form -- and being able to open the form in Adobe Designer (in Acrobat, under the Advanced menu, cascade select "Edit Fillable Form" - which launches Adobe Lifecycle Designer - AKA Adobe Designer) - i can't tell what the form's text entry settings are (or if you might be able to change them) - I will see if I can find this form online and get back to you - otherwise, if you could email me both one that behaves (such as the I-130) and this one that is not behaving as you would like (I-864) - that would speed things up a bit - send them to my michaelejahn@gmail.com email - my guess is that one the properties is either set with a lower opacity or a text entry color that is not 100 percent black - these forms sometimes can't be modified, so we may have to try other tricks like printing to PDF and then running it through something that converts all the objects to 100 percent black ....
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