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>We're considering standardizing on Acrobat 5 or 6. We are currently using >Acrobat 4. The questions we hare are: > >1) From what I've read in the list it seems that Acrobat 6 doesn't always >work right in browser. In what situations does it have problems? I have not observed this issue. >2) Does Acrobat 5 work correctly in browsers? Yes. >3) For document preparation is Acrobat 6 better than Acrobat 5? We'll >need >to use distiller and the acrobat program for this process. The production >process assembles individual articles into a single issue for processing by >our database applications and then converts the issue back to articles >based on the information in the database. Converting the issue "back to articles"... if that means splitting up a single multipage PDF into constituent articles then there's nothing about A6 that improves on A5 in that specific regard. Moreover... if you publish with "tail-ins" - ie, articles that start or end on the same page as another article starts or ends... no database tool is going to pull your PDFs apart! But I figure you know that already. >4) On Windows, Unix, or Mac are there any issues we should be aware of >thanks. It's not OS specific, but many Menu Items have changed between A4/5 and A6. This means that using Menu Items for action-triggers using bookmarks, links and form-fields are not backwards-compatible. For straight-forward PDF production without interactive features, however, this should not present a problem. Another significant difference between A5 and A6 lies in the area of image compression. In A6, JPEG2000 compression is available for color images... but it makes PDFs incompatible with A5 and earlier. Similarly, in A5, JBIG2 compression is permitted.... but this makes PDFs incompatible with A4 and earlier (needless to say...). Overall, and in the light of A6, I could not recommend to anyone that they "merely" upgrade to A5. By the way, there is an excellent PlanetPDF Forum called "Acrobat 6.0" - it's all about this issue of A6 vs. A5. http://forum.planetpdf.com/ Duff Johnson Document Solutions, Inc. www.document-solutions.com To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
