Removing Oce\Canon PrismaPrepare page programming data from PDF files?

[EdwardB]

Before I rip what little hair I have left using trial and error, I'm hoping someone has already figured out how to do this. Remove the Page Programming data out of a PDF saved with PrismaPrepare (a Canon/Oce WYSIWYG application).

Yes I know you can "Open as clean...", this has the negative effect of stripping out any headers/footers/VDP merged data out of the PDF.

I know I can process the PDF through a PDF writer like Acrobat Pro to accomplish this... I think Pitstop Pro would be better suited, as I already use it to correct a lot of problems anyways, but I don't know what objects (XML data?) to look for.

 

[narseman]

Simple way, change the page count.. OUTSIDE OF PRISMA. Add a blank page and save (in front of the doc) with acrobat, for example.
Reopen file in Prisma, programming should be gone. With a little warning screen. Been a few months. But should work. Delete the extra page, re-program everything.

 

[narseman]

Simple way, change the page count.. OUTSIDE OF PRISMA. Add a blank page and save (in front of the doc) with acrobat, for example.
Reopen file in Prisma, programming should be gone. With a little warning screen. Been a few months. But should work. Delete the extra page, re-program everything.

If you're merging VDP data in Prisma, you'll likely lose that. Or it will get confused. Don't know for sure. I always VDP separately, then program pages in Prisma.

 

[EdwardB]

If you're merging VDP data in Prisma, you'll likely lose that. Or it will get confused. Don't know for sure. I always VDP separately, then program pages in Prisma.

yeah, that is the problem. Losing that data. I have since learned HOW Prisma Prepare stores that data within the PDF, its coming up with a Pitstop (or similar) process that will move that content out of the <oced> containers... its a head scratcher that i'm probably going to have to put in a ticket with Enfocus.

moving the content out of the container and Prepare doesn't kill the object: