The combination of Acrobat 4 and AdobePS 4.3 PostScript Driver
(to be released soon) on Window'9x eliminates any TrueType
problems in terms of PDF generation. PDF files so generated
may be properly searched with Acrobat 4 on any platform on which
you have Acrobat 4 or Acrobat 4 Reader.

- Dov

At 4/24/99 05:22 PM , Decker Gary E wrote:
>Much thanks to all who have responded to my problem of reflowing text in
>a MSWord document. The one consensus seems to be to use Distiller
>instead of PDFWriter to avoid reflow problems. But wait...
>
>On the Planet PDF website, in "Ask Aandi," under "The importance of
>managing your PDFs and source documents," Aandi Inston said:
>
>"Let's hope you didn't use the combination of TrueType fonts and
>Distiller (instead of PDFWriter). If you did, the text in the file is
>just a collection of little symbols and you will not be able to use any
>of the above [referring to instructions he had given earlier in the
>article, regarding selecting text in a document]..."
>
>Two things that I'm sure my originator will insist on: 1) The ability
>to do searches on the text (I've even built an index using Catalog for
>this purpose, since there will be several documents in the end); and 2)
>The ability to select and copy text from the document. Is using
>Distiller going to cause me problems in either scenario?
>
>Gary Decker, Senior IS Analyst
>Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, Burlington KS USA
>
>> ----------
>> From: Dov Isaacs[SMTP:isaacs@adobe.com]
>>
>> Having said that, the solution for applications such as Word is to
>> ALWAYS use a "standard" for generating output. One way of doing this
>> is to always create a PDF from Word via Distiller using the exact
>> same driver and Distiller settings, especially as related to
>> device resolution. Choose a resolution no lower than the highest
>> resolution that you may ever print to. Effectively, you then use
>> Acrobat to do all your "real" printing from Word.
>> NOTE: When setting up a Word document, you would need to have
>> the Acrobat Distiller printer as your current printer associated
>> with Word or else formatting will change when you print.
>> Also note that I very specifically did not give instructions to
>> use PDFWriter!
>>
>> - Dov


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