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Another thought in the absence of further input: Was the questioner
referring to a variable data application? There are a number of PDF add-ons that
cater for mailing situations whereby both data and images are changed to suit
the particular recipient - a good example being Mr A who is interested in a RED
car with 4 wheel drive, whereas Miss B wants a BLUE one with a baby seat
(forgive me girls - the brains gone dead).
Peter
A couple more thoughts about this
thread...
1. Distiller is a standalone software component of the
full version of Adobe Acrobat.
2. PostScript, of course, is code which represents the
data in a given file made by an application. It is an inbetween step to
output on some sort of printing device which often runs in the background.
Through Distiller, the PS code is converted into something visual. i.e., the
PDF which should look like the original file, yet with all the components
combined into one compressed file.
Rich
The simple questions
are often the hardest to answer but I’ll have a try.
- Distilling – the
action/operation required to convert any postscript file to a pdf file. This
is usually transparent (not noticed by the operator) in that starting the
action (to distill) simply ‘prints’ the file to a ‘postscript’ printer
captures the postscript file which is then reduced in size, similar to the
action performed by programs such as WinZip in as much as all redundant
information is stripped out of the postscript file.
- Editing PDF Files
(adding pictures and changing text) this is much harder. There is a limited
ability to edit pdf files provided by Adobe programs BUT and it is a big but
this in many ways defeats one of the main reasons for using pdf files which
is to preserve the original intent. There are a number of third party
programs which will allow such editing but why would you want to do
this?
Peter
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Sent: 22 March
2004 06:03
To: 'Pdf'
Subject: [PDF-Basics]
Distilling
Can someone tell me in simple
terms what distilling is? What does it mean to be able to add data or pictures
without going through the distilling process again.
Moe
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