- From: Kelly Ford <kford@teleport.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:58:51 -0700
- To: Lovey@aol.com, w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Most of what you are writing is greek to me. I'm talking about getting reliable text out of .pdf files that others create so I can read them. Standard or not, the last thing I personally will be creating is such a file. Increasingly I'm forced to try and read the contents with tools that work with, as I said, a mixed result at best. At 02:12 AM 8/20/98 EDT, Lovey@aol.com wrote: > >In a message dated 8/20/98 12:11:01 AM, kford@teleport.com wrote: ><<folks should not consider this a reliable method >> > >Cherchie la font.....<G> >Some where down the line the fonts were changed and thus - the unwanted >results you described. >The problems you experienced may not be with Acrobat or PDF but with the >application used to distill the file. Microsoft Word being the worst. Do not >use the PDF Writer in Word to create the PDF (this anoyance is noted on >Adobe's website). The most reliable method is to save as a file out of your >page assembly application, preferably as a PostScript file. If you do not >have a PostScript printer, save it as a print file. (Or you can get Ghost >Script - it will make PostScript files) Be sure to set your preferences to >download the fonts. Then distill the file as a PDF using Acrobat Distiller. >Set the preference in Distiller to include all fonts. > >PDF is cool! As far as reliability, PDF files are becoming the format of >choice for page reproduction in the Print Industry. - and that says a lot for >reliability. >Hope this helps! >Kindest regards, >LK > >
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