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Topic: Re: Adobe Document Server 1.x and PDF v1.4 or above (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) General, Msg: 89348
From: LeonardR
Date: 6/8/2003 05:07 PM
At 02:27 AM 6/7/2003 +1000, p-pdf-general Listmanager wrote:
>Does anybody have any ideas on how to get ADS v1.0 to support PDF spec
>v1.4 or above?
Not possible.
> I know the original product is discontinued and the new version ADS v5.0
> is available but it's way too costly for what we want to accomplish.
Have you discussed upgrade pricing with Adobe - or just looked at
list pricing?
>What we want to do is to just render the PDF file as an image and display
>in the web browser without running Acrobat Reader. Main reason for this
>is because we are hosting large manuals (>20Mb in size, >300Pages) and the
>byte-serving function does not work effectively for this type of situation.
Remember that byte-serving on the server side, ALSO requires that
the PDF file be linearized ("Fast Web View" enabled). Is your document?
Also, have you consider alternative approaches to PDF availability
such as dynamic access to specific chapters or sections??
Leonard
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Leonard Rosenthol
Chief Technical Officer
PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice)
