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At 04:50 AM 11/28/2003 -0600, you wrote:
The Xerox work flow is generally built around Acrobat 4. Problems seldom occur with most Acrobat 5 (version 1.3 files) but if they do it is usually with common fonts like Helvetica. They do not bold correctly and the font metrics go bizarre.
This problem only happens if the download the pdf file to the Docutech as you mentioned. No errors are generated but the output is ugly.
The problem does not exist if the file is printed to the Docutech as a PostScript printer. By submitting the files to the Docutech as a printer, even Acrobat 6 (Version 1.5) files print fine without font problems.
Until Xerox updates the work flow and AND companies using the Xerox pay the big upgrade fees, this will continue to be come a bigger problem. The best solution is to save the files going to a Docutech system as Acrobat 4 (V 1.3) compatible files. If you can not do that, be sure to tell them to print to the Docutech instead of downloading . They should know what you mean.
There is also a big problem with printing Acrobat 5 or 6 files that include transparency settings. This could be files created by Adobe Illustrator. The transparency settings are ignored!
Gordy
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:47:48 -0000 From: "Kingston, Jos R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PDF] Acrobat 6 PDF to Xerox Digipath (Docutech135 printer driver)
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Our Print Unit is reporting problems sending PDF files generated in Acrobat 6 to Xerox Digipath for automated printing. Their procedure is:
1) load the PDF file (in Acrobat 5, but I gather they have also tested from the evaluation version of Acrobat 6 and this doesn't resolve the
problem); 2) select the Docutech 135 printer driver and print to file; 3) upload the printer file for queuing to the printer. No errors are
reported at the print to file stage, but the printer file won't then upload. They report that PDF files generated in earlier versions of
Acrobat are behaving fine. The Docutech 135 is a Level 2 Postscript driver. However the files causing problems don't have anything in them
(e.g. complex vector objects) which you'd expect to require Level 3 Postscript capabilities.
Has anybody encountered similar problems, and are there any workarounds/solutions?
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