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At 2/13/2004 02:12 PM, Michael Jahn wrote: >On 2/13/04 4:52 PM, Jon Bamsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> although most of the >> pdf's come from customers > >Like the airline industry has done, you probably need to begin planning a >way to 'protect' yourself from your customers. > >Many service providers require their customers to preflight their PDF files >BEFORE they send them in, and some even go so far as to take the time to >explain how to make reliable files - a great resource of instructing >customers on how to make reliable 'error free' PDF files can be found at; > >http://www.direct2.time.com/ > >As a publisher, Time Warner does not have the "time" to accept and try and >process PDF files, so they demand that PDF file be in a certain condition >PRIOR to arriving in their FTP site - Time Warner then runs them throgh >preflight and if they error, back they go (they don't have time to fix them, >and they don't want the responsibility of 'fixing' files. > >Anyway, just a thought - GIGO - garbage in, garbage out > >Hope this helps. Quite frankly, there is nothing "garbage" about files that contain CID font encoding. IN FACT, CID font encoding is permitted by PDF/X and even the "more stringent" PDF/X Plus of the Ghent PDF Working Group in Europe. It isn't a matter of "old RIPs" ... it is a matter of RIPs or prepress software that conforms neither to the PostScript nor the PDF specification. If fact, the problem is usually "PostScript emulations" that didn't bother to fully and properly implement the full PostScript Language Specification and/or test against it! Time's ad specifications are very unfortunate in that they don't even live up to PDF/X1a specifications (and even those are pretty dumbed-down PDF)! - Dov To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
