[Fwd: RE: PDF import issue]

[Stuart Rogers]

On Adrianne's behalf -- if this makes it to the list!

(Glad to have helped, Adrianne.)

sr

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: PDF import issue
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:19:51 -0500
From: Adrianne Mora <AdrianneM at envipco.com>
To: Stuart Rogers <srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com>
References:

Hi Stuart,

You are absolutely right about the source of the problem. And exporting
to PDF is the solution. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get my emails
through to the list to update everyone on this solution. I've sent it
twice already, and it still hasn't shown up.

Thanks so much for your interest and help!
Adrianne

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 2:56 PM
To: Adrianne Mora
Subject: Re: PDF import issue

Adrianne Mora wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
> 
> Thanks for your response! The exact process I use is to open the
> original drawing in AutoCAD and export as DWG. Then I open it in DWG
> TrueView. From there, I print to PDF using Distiller. For various
> reasons, this is the only way I can get a decent output. We have a
very
> old version of AutoCAD here.
> 
> The puzzling thing is that when I print this PDF to a regular laser
> printer, it looks great. But as soon as I import it into a page in
> FrameMaker, the lines are too thick, which makes the drawing
illegible.

Hi Adrianne,

I know what you mean about AutoCAD -- we have a couple of versions here,

and they don't play nicely with postscript.  I have had to load PCL
versions of our printer driver on the engineers' PCs so they can get
decent output.

What I was getting at in my earlier question about your print workflow
was this:  *after* you've imported the PDF into the FM file and see that

the lines have become too thick, do you then print the FM to a hardware
printer and still see thick lines, or do you first distill the FM file
to a new PDF and print from there to hardware?  What I'm getting at is
that maybe Distiller would just pass through the original
import-by-reference PDF file, disregarding whatever FM does to render it

   on screen or to a h/w printer.

Good luck at any rate!

-- 
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

srogers phoenix-geophysics com

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