[Framers] Kinda OT: PDF produced from printing FM book to .ps and then distilling to PDF

Scott Turner quills at airmail.net
Mon Apr 4 11:16:30 PDT 2016


Because the two step method allows finer control and batching?

> On Apr 4, 2016, at 13:10, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Not understanding why you'd to a two-step manual distillation like this
> instead of just printing to the Adobe PDF printer instance directly.
> 
> I'd try the standard method, the one-step, instead of the two-step before I
> decided it was a problem/bug...
> 
> 
> Art Campbell
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> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Tammy Van Boening <
> tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have to test four browsers with the output that I produce for a client -
>> Chrome, Mozilla, IE, and Safari. The new "Edge" browser for Windows 10
>> designed to replace IE is now a consideration. I have not one, but two
>> clients now say that when they open a PDF produced as described that I have
>> uploaded to Dropbox in Edge, the PDF erroneously appears as doubled - for
>> example, an 81 page PDF shows 162 pages, and it's basically the PDF
>> "appended to itself." It ends at page 81 and then starts smack dab over
>> again on page 1.  (I doubt that the way that I produced the PDF vs.
>> printing
>> directly to PDF has anything to do with the issue, but I just wanted to
>> cover all bases.)
>> 
>> This doesn't happen with any of the other browsers. I told the client to
>> download the PDF and then view and still the same problem, but just with
>> Edge.
>> 
>> Has anyone encountered this issue/seen this at all? I tried googling it,
>> but
>> Edge is so new, there's scant information on it and this did not come up in
>> the search of problems with Edge.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> TVB
>> 
>> Tammy Van Boening
>> Owner/Principal
>> Spectrum Writing, LLC
>> www.spectrumwritingllc.com
>> TammyVB  *AT*  spectrumwritingllc  *DOT*  com
>> 
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