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Topic: Re: problems with Acrobat 5.0
Conf: (P-PDF) Beginners, Msg: 121415
From: JustSayOzzy
Date: 11/4/2004 01:04 AM

On 11/4/2004 12:50:01 AM, LeonardR wrote:
>At 07:41 PM 11/3/2004,
>p-pdf-beginners Listmanager
>wrote:
>>I have created the files with Adobe Illustrator 10, saved them as EPS,
>>used Distiller 4.0 for their conversion in PDFs, and then assembled them
>>with Adobe Acrobat 4.0.
>
> Why?!?!?
>
>Why not just do a "Save as
>PDF" from Illustrator??
>
>That will make a MUCH higher
>fidelity PDF - and with a LOT
>less
>hassle on your end.
>

Well, I tried first to save as pdf from illustrator, but the file size was huge..so I gave up this option. Besides the fact that the quality of the file was not at all what I expected. But I admit, I'm a beginner :)

>
>Also, do you have Acrobat 4.0
>or 4.0.5? 4.0 had a LOT of
>MAJOR
>bugs that were fixed in
>4.0.5...
>
>

Acrobat 4.0


>
>>The problem seems to appear when I try open the files with Acrobat 5.0,
>>they don't look the same with the view in Acrobat 4.0.
>
>What do you mean "they don't
>look the same"? In what
>way? Color? Text? Other??
>

the text and the colors are ok, but the curves/images look as they wouldn't have any anti-aliasing. And they should have. I played with "job options" in distiller, I tried to save different EPS formats, but nothing changed.

Thanks again

JustSayOzzy

>
>Leonard
>
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