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  1. Dov Isaacs

    General expectations for PDF file size

    Whereas I would agree with you wrt/ how inexpensive disk space is and per my posting wrt/ resampling I would avoid cascading rounds of decompression, downsampling, recompression - especially with JPEG, JPEG compression at maximum quality is generally not a problem for photographic types of...
  2. Dov Isaacs

    General expectations for PDF file size

    Really not a good idea! Better you should examine the PDF file in Acrobat Pro and if appropriate downsample the images if those really have excessive resolution. However, it makes very little sense and can actually be harmful to quality to do multiple rounds of image downsampling. Each time you...
  3. Dov Isaacs

    Changes not sticking

    Amen to that! :rolleyes: - Dov
  4. Dov Isaacs

    G7 for Indesign and Acrobat

    You certainly should not place the PDF back into InDesign and use different PDF export settings. Re-export the original InDesign document! - Dov
  5. Dov Isaacs

    .pdf flattening

    Quite frankly, a print publishing workflow based on PDF 1.3 (typically used by PDF/X-1a) is close to a dozen years out of date. Modern PDF print publishing workflows are based on PDF/X-4 (itself based on PDF 1.6) using ICC color management with live transparency. ICC color-managed RGB is...
  6. Dov Isaacs

    Adobe Acrobat 11

    There are two different methods of licensing Acrobat. If you purchase a perpetual license (i.e., not a subscription), you currently get Acrobat 2017. If you purchase a subscription, you get Acrobat DC. With Acrobat 2017 or its predecessor Acrobat 2015, the features that are in the program when...
  7. Dov Isaacs

    Adobe Acrobat 11

    Sorry to hear that. I then assume you don't have the latest version of Fusion Pro either?!? I can't imagine that their product is not updated enough yet to work with either Acrobat Pro 2017 or Acrobat Pro DC. - Dov
  8. Dov Isaacs

    Adobe Acrobat 11

    What platform are you on? Windows or Mac? They do license Acrobat 2017, the replacement for Acrobat 2015, for both Windows and MacOS with perpetual license as well as Acrobat DC as subscription. It is highly unlikely that your copy of Fusion Pro would not work with Acrobat 2017 if it worked with...
  9. Dov Isaacs

    Adobe Acrobat 11

    Actually, to be legally correct, you never could “buy” Acrobat 11 itself, but rather, you could “license” Acrobat 11! ;) Adobe no longer licenses Acrobat 11; nor do any Authorized Adobe Resellers offer Acrobat 11 anymore! In fact, Acrobat 11 is no longer supported in any way by Adobe. With the...
  10. Dov Isaacs

    Xerox has had their share of problems

    Doesn't mean that it was “killed” unless you have an awfully strange definition of “killed” … - Dov
  11. Dov Isaacs

    Font-Specific Trap Error

    Hopefully you have reported this to Kodak. When you say “web font” what you are really saying in this context is TrueType fonts. It sounds like Prinergy may have problems with its proprietary trapping and the hinting in some TrueType fonts. - Dov
  12. Dov Isaacs

    Font-Specific Trap Error

    Assuming that the trapping irregularity appears only when you pass it through the Prinergy code (correct?), maybe the best thing to do is to contact Kodak Support as see what analysis they can do with this. The problem may be with the TrueType hinting in the font itself, the Prinergy software...
  13. Dov Isaacs

    Demo copy of Fiery XF?

    I'd be exceptionally cautious about the use of the GWG tests for this purpose, especially given that the GWG (Ghent Workgroup) tests are more about properly handling the PDF graphic elements per the PDF language specification as opposed to the quality / aesthetics of the color profiles and color...
  14. Dov Isaacs

    Xerox has had their share of problems

    Who told you that Adobe is “killing PostScript?” Adobe never announced an “end-of-life” for the Adobe PostScript 3” OEM printer products or support for PostScript and/or EPS as either input or output of its major products. And yes, many but not all production printers do offer a PostScript...
  15. Dov Isaacs

    Indesign Sublayer

    Please read my response to the same question earlier in this thread! - Dov
  16. Dov Isaacs

    Indesign Sublayer

    Yes, PDF 2.0 will be supported for both creation and placement as will PDF/X-6 (currently under development). Some applications will hopefully also support generation of PDF that is both PDF/X-6 and PDF/A-4 compliant (and so tagged)! A few points to note. The ISO TC171 group responsible for...
  17. Dov Isaacs

    Indesign Sublayer

    It would be prudent to assume that support for ISO 19593-1 in Illustrator and InDesign will be supplied solely via very specialized third party plug-ins for Illustrator and InDesign. - Dov
  18. Dov Isaacs

    Restrict Editing on PDF...with one exception.

    Yes, this is what does in fact work; I actually tried that before posting my response above. ;) You can modify it to allow printing as well as extraction. - Dov
  19. Dov Isaacs

    Restrict Editing on PDF...with one exception.

    Nothing has changed with Acrobat in any releases over the last several years in this regard. What your customer needs to do is use the protection mechanism within Acrobat to disallow changes but allow page extraction. It works (I just tried it myself). Of course using rasterization as a...
  20. Dov Isaacs

    Xerox has had their share of problems

    That video only tells part of the story of what Xerox passed up on over the years. Apple wasn't the only company given previews of the Alto computer system (and then their officially commercially released Star workstation based on the Alto). I was given a similar tour by Xerox PARC when working...

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