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Thank you Kate Hellmann System Administrator Moore Wallace - Hillside (#40) 4600 W Roosevelt Rd. Hillside, IL 60162 Ph: (708) 492-4636 Fax: (708) 449-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@MOORECORP on behalf of Gary Cosimini <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PDF] Does Export mean PDFWriter? > > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > >Now for the rest of the issue. This client insists on making a ps and > >distilling in Distiller 6. However he make the compatibility to Acrobat 4 > >(1.3). His pdf looks like it has lost some of the transparency. Doesn't > >the file lose some of its information when it is made compatible to Acrobat > >4? > > > Dov and Leonard may jump in with elaboration, but I hope > substantially the same answer... > > Acrobat Distiller 6 does a fine job making PDFs. The difference > between making PDFs directly from InDesign and rendering PostScript > from InDesign and then distilling is that there are many more choices > open to the customer when creating PostScript and distilling, and > this increases a greater possibility of making errors. > > Logic should tell us that the fewer the number of conversions or > transformations in a process, especially one so open to > misinterpretation as prepress, the less likely the chance for an > error to occur. You should try to get your customer to agree with > this logic. The folklore that "InDesign makes poor PDF" is not true. > > In case further convincing is required: when InDesign creates > PostScript, all transparency is resolved or "flattened" using exactly > the same software algorithms as when exporting to PDF 1.3. There is > no notion of transparency in PostScript like there is in PDF 1.4 or > 1.5 (Acrobat 5 and 6). Therefore, whether InDesign is writing > PostScript or exporting to PDF 1.3, the result will be essentially > the same, excepting extra features in PDF which have nothing to do > with printing. > > All the customer is doing when going the Distiller route is a) > wasting time and b) opening up the possibility of operator error far > wider than if they had exported direct. > > Good questions, though. InDdesign CS, by the way, exports to the > PDF/X standard format that may inspire more confidence on the part of > your client in the future. > > Gary Cosimini > Adobe Systems Inc. > > > > > > > > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
