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At 03:58 PM 6/24/2003 -0400, Todd Kueny wrote:The RIP vendors/hardware manufacturers require the commands to be prepended to the files
That's fine - IF you do as part of the PDF generation process such that all the Xref offsets are valid. But unless you are fixing up the offsets after prepending the info, you have BROKEN the PDF and should be publicly flogged!
These vendors REQUIRE data prepended to the base PDF file - which MUST be valid PDF file without the prepending and the PDF file must NOT be modified by the prepending process. If the XREF offsets change to values inclusive of the prepending, then the file will not print.
Its seems by your definition that a PDF which prints correctly on one of these devices is BROKEN and a PDF which does not print but is acceptable within the context of the PDF Standard is not BROKEN.
I suggest the more constructive approach of complaining to Adobe that the PDF standard is BROKEN because it doesn't support what is "standard practice" in the industry (realizing that the requirements I mention above are for every vendor supporting XRX and KDK - which is basically every commercial RIP vendor).
Todd
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