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Topic: Re: NeedAppearances (was Re: PDFMark Button creation problems) (Via Email)
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From: dpstory
Date: 9/29/2001 06:31 AM

I've lost the train of thought for this thread, but I'll throw in another
two cents worth, since the topic is the distiller.

One thing that I recently learned is that even though
you set the distiller on 'Optimize for Fast Web View'
and you set /NeedAppearances true, distiller does not build the
appearances. I had always associated 'Optimize' with building the
appearances; these are, however, two separate issues. While
disiller can optimize, only Acrobat (through 'Save As') can replace
the code generated by the pdfmark with a bit stream that is the
appearance of the field.

Hope this adds to the discussion.

Regards,

dps


On 29 Sep 01, at 5:38, p-pdf-forms Listmanager wrote:
> From: Leonard Rosenthol
>
> At 05:04 AM 9/29/2001 +1000, p-pdf-forms Listmanager wrote:
> >So is there a way to avoid having to use Save As for the PDF? (i.e.,
> >to get rid of that manual step, and have the PDF "Saved As"
> >automatically somehow during distilling) After distilling to PDF,
> >Acrobat will prompt you to save before closing, even if no changes
> >were made after distilling. Thanks all!
>
> Not with Distiller, that I am aware of. UNLESS you want to
> write
> the appearance dictionaries yourself as part of the PDFMarks...
>
>
> Leonard




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