I work in the legal industry and we use Acrobat all the time to convert PDFs to LZW compressed B&W Tiff for use in trial presentation software. Lately, we've noticed that Acrobat Pro 9 is saving the files with a .tiff extension rather than the .tif extension. The ".tiff" extension might be great for Mac, but we're in a Windows environment and we bought Acrobat Pro 9 for Windows - not Mac. This is a problem because the Windows software that we are using, TrialDirector 5.2, only accepts a .3 extension such as .tif, .jpg, etc.
I've experimented with this issue and can't resolve the matter on a permanent level. It appears to be a random occurrence and I can't tell if it's because some PDF files are optimized and others are not or what the secret formula to this is. Even in a batch process, some will be saved with a .tiff extension and others will have a .tif extension. If I change the extension to .tif in the file name during a "save as" the program will continue to save it that way as long as I don't exit the program. Once exited, you have to open Acrobat again, "save as" ".tif" - it may save it that way, it may save it as .tiff, but after deleting the .tiff files and doing a "save as" or batch process again, it will usually save the files with a ".tif" extension.
Is there a preferences file somewhere in Acrobat or Distiller that can be edited manually, that will keep the extension to ".tif" rather than ".tiff"?
I really want to avoid having to use a bulk rename utility for the thousands of documents we process considering Acrobat 8 didn't have this problem.
I've experimented with this issue and can't resolve the matter on a permanent level. It appears to be a random occurrence and I can't tell if it's because some PDF files are optimized and others are not or what the secret formula to this is. Even in a batch process, some will be saved with a .tiff extension and others will have a .tif extension. If I change the extension to .tif in the file name during a "save as" the program will continue to save it that way as long as I don't exit the program. Once exited, you have to open Acrobat again, "save as" ".tif" - it may save it that way, it may save it as .tiff, but after deleting the .tiff files and doing a "save as" or batch process again, it will usually save the files with a ".tif" extension.
Is there a preferences file somewhere in Acrobat or Distiller that can be edited manually, that will keep the extension to ".tif" rather than ".tiff"?
I really want to avoid having to use a bulk rename utility for the thousands of documents we process considering Acrobat 8 didn't have this problem.