Acrobat Options...

[Lester C. Smalley]

Precisely - there is a physical layout diagram that must print at the exact size.  I could care less if they want to scale the VIEW of the PDF online, but it has to print correctly.

To my mind, making PDF arbitrarily scalable is the off-beat.  I want to create an electronic version that exactly mimics the original printed version.

- Lester 
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Lester C. Smalley              Email: lsmalley AT infocon DOT com 	
Information Consultants, Inc.  Phone: 302-239-2942 FAX: 302-239-1712	
Yorklyn, DE  19736               Web: www.infocon.com	
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com]
| Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 04:48 PM
| To: Jacob Schäffer
| Cc: Lester C. Smalley; framers at lists.frameusers.com
| Subject: Re: Acrobat Options...
| 
| Not to step on Lester's toes at all, but we recently had the same
| experience, setting up installation manuals for lighting fixture
| installations.
| 
| We wanted to include a full size template in the manual that an
| installer could use to drill mounting holes for the fixture. But if
| the PDF document was resized at all during printing, the drilling
| template wouldn't be accurate.
| 
| So it's not an uncommon request.
| 
| Art
| 
| On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Jacob Schäffer <js at grafikhuset.dk>
| wrote:
| > I'd like to hear why you want that.
| >
| >  The PDF format itself is quite scalable and putting some unscaleable
| elements into it seem a bit offset from the understandable.
| >
| >  Please explain your purpose.
| >
| >  Best regards / Med venlig hilsen
| >  Jacob Schäffer  |  Chief Developer
| >  Paradis Allé 22, Ramløse
| >  DK-3200 Helsinge, Denmark
| >  Phone: +45 4439 4400
| >  Email: js at grafikhuset.dk
| >  Web: www.grafikhuset.net
| >
| > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
| > > Fra: Lester C. Smalley
| > > Sendt: 27. marts 2008 18:01
| > > Til: framers at lists.frameusers.com
| > > Emne: Acrobat Options...
| > >
| > > I believe I know the answer to this already, but wanted to
| > > confirm with folks here.
| > >
| > > FM 7.2 (Structured) and Acrobat 7 Pro on Windows XP, both
| > > up-to-date on patches. PDF's are generated by printing to the
| > > Adobe PDF virtual printer instance.
| > >
| > > I have an issue where information must appear at the original
| > > native size even when printed, yet many reader's copy of the
| > > viewer will scale the page when actually printing it.  I know
| > > that I can tell the recipients to change the print option in
| > > their copy to not scale or center the pages, but I would love
| > > to avoid that necessity if at all possible.
| > >
| > > Is there any way to set options for printing the resulting
| > > PDF in what I create, either from FM or in Acrobat before I
| > > share the PDF with the reviewers and end users ?
| > >
| > > Any advice or solutions will be greatly appreciated.
| > >
| > >
| > > - Lester
| > > -------------------------------------------------------
| > > Lester C. Smalley              Email: lsmalley AT infocon DOT com
| > > Information Consultants, Inc.  Phone: 302-239-2942 FAX: 302-239-1712
| > > Yorklyn, DE  19736               Web: www.infocon.com
| > > -------------------------------------------------------
| 
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