He can fill in the form in Reader but he can't e-mail it back as he can't
save it. For that he will need Exchange.

Carl 8^)

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To: Acrobat Talk <acrobat@blueworld.com>
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 8:02 PM
Subject: Acrobat Talk Digest - 03/13/99


>Acrobat Talk Digest - Saturday, March 13, 1999
>
> Re: E-mailing Acrobat Forms
> by <GLBpubs@aol.com>
> Re: E-mailing Acrobat Forms
> by <GLBpubs@aol.com>
> Re: PDF size
> by "Roger Jones" <Roger.Jones@rjpc.demon.co.uk>
> Re: PDF size
> by <FEvans1980@aol.com>
> Re: E-mailing Acrobat Forms
> by <FEvans1980@aol.com>
> Re: PDF printing problem
> by "Helge Blischke" <H.Blischke@srz-berlin.de>
>
>
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>
>Subject: Re: E-mailing Acrobat Forms
>From: GLBpubs@aol.com
>Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:11:47 EST
>
>In a message dated 3/12/1999 1:13:14 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>bcumming@cadvision.com writes:
>
>> If I create an Acrobat Form and send it to a client and he opens it
>> up in Acrobat Reader and fills it in How can he e-mail the
>> completed form back to me?
>He can't fill in a form in Reader, can he? He needs Exchange for that.
>
>Bill Warner
>GLB Publishers
>
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>
>Subject: Re: E-mailing Acrobat Forms
>From: GLBpubs@aol.com
>Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:15:02 EST
>
>In a message dated 3/12/1999 1:55:23 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>FEvans1980@aol.com writes:
>
>> I just want the damn
>> form, as I created it, filled out and returned to me. I honestly cannot
see
>> why this appears to be so difficult for Adobe to understand.
>>
>Isn't this possible with Acrobat 4.0?
>
>Bill Warner
>GLB Publishers
>
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>
>Subject: Re: PDF size
>From: Roger Jones <Roger.Jones@rjpc.demon.co.uk>
>Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 10:03:13 +0000
>
>At 16:54 12/03/99 EST, FEvans wrote:
>>I have a problem with the size of some of my PDFs. Here's an example.
>First of
>>all, I have a Pagemaker 6.52 document of 387k. I have 4 linked graphics: a
>>jpeg of 61k; a gif of 10k; and two Illustrator EPS files of 177k and 75 k.
>So,
>>the total of all these files is 710k. Since I am mostly concerned about
on-
>>screen viewing, the jpeg and gif are sized at 100% and are 100 dpi. I
print a
>>postscript file, which comes out about 1.9m. Reasonable, so far. I
distill,
>>using Distiller 3.02. I have tried virtually every compression setting I
can
>>think of, including no compression at all. I have subset fonts and not
subset
>>fonts. But the smallest readable file I can get is still 850k - larger
than
>>the sum of the original files! I was hoping to get this down to 100k or
>so, as
>>I want people to be able to view/download them over the internet. What am
I
>>doing wrong?
>
>In my experience, this is a relatively good result. Acrobat's brilliant,
>but the files are still too large. Only yesterday did one of my authors
>decide to send his response to a PDF proof file back to me as an e-mail
>message rather than by responding to extensive queries within the file
>because of its formidable size.
>
>The problem is usually TIFFs and JPEGs that Acrobat can't compress any
>further. I've tried optimizing in Exchange, have rarely achieved further
>compression, and have often seen that the optimized file is slightly larger
>than the original. And beware of low resolution settings for graphics: I
>recently set graphics at 72dpi and, much to my embarrassment, it screwed up
>the appearance of the type, which was nothing more exotic than Adobe's own
>ATM Type 1 TimesNewRomanPS.
>
>I hope Adobe are continuing to work on this, because it's a major issue for
>those using PDFs over telephone connections to the Net and who, unlike many
>US users, are charged for all calls. I think I saw something in the Acrobat
>4 documentation referring to reduced file size, but I wonder how much this
>will be.
>
>All the best
>
>Roger Jones, Publisher
>Publishing@rjpc.demon.co.uk
>Download Adobe Acrobat Reader free of charge from http://www.adobe.com
>
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>
>Subject: Re: PDF size
>From: FEvans1980@aol.com
>Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 10:33:16 EST
>
>
>In a message dated 3/12/99 5:56:35 PM, sharonburton@email.msn.com writes:
>
><< Many people don't know about optimizing. It reduces the file size
greatly.
>>>
>
>I have never seen much difference after optimizing. In fact, I have a
number
>of files that actually increased in size after optimization. In the
particular
>example I cited, optimizing took the file size from 870k to 850k.
>
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>
>Subject: Re: E-mailing Acrobat Forms
>From: FEvans1980@aol.com
>Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 10:35:39 EST
>
>
>In a message dated 3/12/99 10:17:14 PM, GLBpubs@aol.com writes:
>
><< He can't fill in a form in Reader, can he? He needs Exchange for that.
>>
>
>He can fill in the form, and he can print the completed version with
Reader.
>He just can't save the completed version.
>
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>
>Subject: Re: PDF printing problem
>From: Helge Blischke <H.Blischke@srz-berlin.de>
>Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:08:05 +0100
>
>Ira Perry wrote:
>>
>> We have a collection of PDF files built from original MS Word documents
>> and posted to the web. They are printing fine on a variety of printers
>> we have tested.
>>
>> But some users are reporting that the TIF images embedded in the files
>> are coming up as black boxes when printed (no image, just a big black
>> box).
>>
>> Has anyone else run into this problem? Is there a fix? The images
>> appear fine both in Word and in PDF, and print fine to some printers.
>>
>> Ira Perry
>I presume those users are using non-PostScript printers (PCL printers
>?), and the used
>PCL printer drivers logically or together what is printed onto the same
>area (whereas
>the PostScript printing model is always opaque, i.e. white pixels
>painted an a black
>background remain white). Check your source documents and make sure that
>the embedded
>images do _not_ have a black background (select white or transparent).
>
>Helge
>
>--
>H.Blischke@srz-berlin.de
>H.Blischke@srz-berlin.com
>H.Blischke@acm.org
>
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