Saving Email to PDF: (1) Stretched Graphics; (2) Touchup

[WardXmodem]

Hi. When I print from Lotus Notes to PDF (6), It works "fine" except sometimes - usually once per document - a graphic gets stretched about 10-fold up from its baseline, obscuring text, etc.

If I go to the graphics selection tool, pick the graphic, and ask to put it to the clipboard, and paste it into a viewer, it looks FINE! So I think it is an acrobat, or perhaps postscript problem.

I took one file that printed with a high "icon" graphic, and printed to Postscript (a randomly installed Apple color laserwriter "on disk" so it would produce a .PS file). Experimenting with it, I was able to CORRECT the graphic, by changing a number in the postscript:

: 208 45 8 208 1248 270 475 5520 F F 3 [ 0 ] F
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FFFFFF C0C0C0 000000 F8D898 808080 D8F8F8 008000 484898
B8F8F8 F8F8B8 D89848 F8F8D8 98D8F8 70B8F8 700070 4898D8
.....more of the hex for the graphic
was the one that was too tall

: 208 45 8 208 1248 12 475 5520 F F 3 [ 0 ] F
...etc...
was the one that was OK - i.e. I changed the 270 to a 12.

This is probably a problem with the Windows Postscript driver, or it might be that acrobat is at fault and I can "get around it" by patching the .PS file and running it though distiller.

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The 2nd issue I have it text touchup. Sometimes people naively do blahblah<enter><tab>blahblah<enter><Tab> i.e. they aren't computer savvy enough to use MARGINS and INDENTS in various tools - so when you print, or convert to PDF, it often comes out long-line then short-line alternating - with maybe even only one word on the short line - because each line is a "paragraph" (because of hitting enter).

I went into such a document, chose the text touchup tool, and went to the end of a short line and hit <space><Del> to put in a space then delete the <enter>. It WORKED, but the left margin went waaaay too far left. I searched help on "margins", etc couldn't find anything.

Also does anyone know how to use acrobat help more effectively? Like how do you search for a PHRASE in acrobat help (F1)? I tried "edit graphic", and it matched EDIT or GRAPHIC, etc.

Thanks!

 

[Eggles]

First problem - what format is the graphic that gets stretched? I would guess it's one of those formats that don't play very nicely with postscript, such as WMF, a progressive JPG, possibly even a BMP. The best graphic formats for conversion to PDF are TIFs for raster graphics and EPSs for vector graphics.

Second problem - once the PDF is made, it's not really amenable to extensive changes. That's the whole point of PDFs - they are supposed to look exactly like the source document. With regard to the text problems... you cannot do major changes to text - you can correct a mispelled word for example - but as for correcting the sort of problems you have - no way. You need to go back to the source document (or get the authors to) and fix the problems there before making the PDF.

 

[WardXmodem]

The graphic typically is an icon for an attachment, so I don't know what format it is. The time I had a large page stretch was the first large graphic that stretched. I was hoping I could replace it. If I click it with graphics and copy it is OK as I mentioned.

Thanks for the 2nd comment. I guess concepts like 'margin' are gone by the time it is converted to PDF.