Pdf creation question

Hello,
In acrobat pro is it possible to save a pdf in the PDF/A format via the sdk?

You use JavaScript (which can also be called from the COM or C++ APIs) to do a doc.saveAs() or the preflight APIs.
Details are in the SDK.

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Hi all. I have a query regarding PDF creation from InDesign (so this could have been in the Acrobat section instead but went for this one).
I work for a publisher using CS2+3 on PCs. We don't have one out of house printer as a rule but several. All have different requirements.
Essentially we are converting fonts to curves from within InDesign when creating the PDFs. Therefore we have multiple files (curved and text) which is adding lots of time onto projects and adding a further margin for error with missing or out of date files. It seems this process is necessary as whenever I select the option to outline the fonts when creating the PDFs, the printers usually get in touch asking for the font, even though it has been outlined.
I am hoping to find any simple solution, hopefully avoiding purchasing extra software, that avoids creating duplicate 'curved' files. I realise it's a big topic and not restricted to InDesign but this is the main software we are using so figured this was the place for it. Many thanks.

I'll let others question the necessity of outlining text. It has been discussed many, many times before, and the only valid reasons I found so far are producing files for hopelessly outdated printers (the usual recommendation is "find another one, fast!") and for legacy custom hardware such as cutters and engravers.
But this is really a mystery to me:
It seems this process is necessary as whenever I select the option to outline the fonts when creating the PDFs, the printers usually get in touch asking for the font, even though it has been outlined.
Tr this: outline all text in your ID document. Export as PDF. Check under Document Properties, Fonts. How many fonts do you see? If everything is outlined, there shouldn't be any.
How does the printer know what fonts to ask for, and what is he ever gonna do with these fonts?

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I am currently running into an issue making PDFs from InDesign CS4. Lately, our company has been getting some rather large jobs in to print and that's when this all started.
The current job is 190 pages plus cover that will be perfect bound. The client, nor I can make one large PDF from this job so we have to break it up into sections. Usually each of the PDF sections has around 20-50 pages per.
Now the issue we're running into is that on some of the pages, an image will end up with a bar or lines in it that looks like white noise. Like the image information was lost for a short period of time during the PDF creation from InDesign.
Here are two pictures of pages from separate jobs and a close up on what's going on. **Second image was from a 32 page plus cover document we have already printed.
Now in order for me to fix this issue is to just make a single page PDF of the effected pages in the document. I just wish I knew what was causing this issue so I know how to avoid it in the future. So far four jobs have been affected like this; two 32 page + cover jobs, a 64 page + cover job, and is job.
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My main computer is a 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with 4 BG of memory running Mac OS X 10.5.8.
My current version of InDesign CS4 is 6.0.3. If anyone has run into this problem or if anyone has any helpful hints for me, I could really use them please. If you need more information from me, I'll be happy to answer any questions.
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That one has come up every now and then and has always been hardware as far as I know.... bad ram, bad cable, bad drive, bad network maybe even bad video card (?).
I see that the lines in the rotated pic are parallel with that pic, so maybe look at the machine where that pic was made and placed first, this is not definite, but you can get corruption in tiffs on machines with hardware errors and they may not be visible every time you open the file.
Although probably a bigger clue is the fact that doing singles is working better, that would make me change the ram completely, suspecting a bad module. Also, unplug peripheral devices and see if that has any bearing.

Distiller Suddenly Shuts Down during pdf creation...

Never had a problem in Acrobat 6.0.1 on Mac OS 10.4.1.
Suddenly, Distiller takes all .ps or .eps files to almost 100% of pdf creation, then crashes.
Says "Can't process job because PDFLib failed to initialize." Might have happened after I used "FontNuke" to zap font caches, which never caused a problem before either.
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I have to convert a very large WORD document (a book, 680 pages including illustrations, tables, index etc.) to PDF. Let me begin by explaining that I've already done this in the past, using Acrobat Professional 5 and Office 2000 Professional; it took ages to create the PDF file, but I was able to do it. At that stage I actually had Acrobat 6, but since it blocked halfway through PDF creation, I went back to Acrobat 5 and managed to create my PDF file.
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Optimizing the graphics up front is also good. Using Mike's suggestion to find the problem graphic would be useful, but is hard to do with PDF Maker (I don't think you can select the pages with PDF Maker). Printing to the Adobe PDF printer will check the layout and also the ability to do the conversion. If the latter works, it is then a matter of determining what you need in PDF Maker.
If you do not need the markup (or wish to add later), then you can save a lot of space by simply printing to the Adobe PDF printer. With PDF Maker, you likely need to go back and review the defaults.

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Please update to latest Acrobat 9 release which is 9.4.2.
Also do let us know
a) office 2003 flavour: Standard or professional?
b) OS flavour? Also whether it is 32bit or 64bit?
Also as you mentioned that "Not all documents are affected", so we would require any of your affected file to analyze the issue. Can you please share the file? You can use acrobat.com to share the file.
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impact than previously described:
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rcberwick wrote:
So, 3 different Apple tech support people say they know this problem affects
"multiple applications, including any that deal with pdf files" but that "no fix is
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That is wrong because it only involves OpenType Postscript fonts.
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then re-applying each Combo Upgrade, starting with 10.6.3 up to 10.6.6.
You wouldn't have to do that either. That is the point of a Combo update. You only need to apply the one you want. It includes all of the previous updates.

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http://forums.adobe.com/community/incopy/incopy_general
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Just trying to figure out pdf creation from ID - can anyone help.
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Distiller was developed at a very early stage in digital publishing, and, for most people, is not desirable or necessary.
As to file size, this is not the big deal it was when people sent files by way of slow modems. These days, it's easy to send larger files via easy interfaces like Dropbox.

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Greeting from Norway
(If you need more spesifications just say so :P )

Did you ever figure out how to fix your problem? I've got the same issue. I installed Acrobat Pro 8.1.4 upgrade and now it continually tells me its installing whenever I:
1. Start my computer
2. Start MS Office 2007
3. Start Mozilla Firefox
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Dynamic PDF Creation

Has anyone used server based PDF creation components? I am
after some recomendations as I am sure someone here must have used
one before.
All I want to do is use a template on the server, and
populate fields from a database when requested. It needs to be able
to add photos that have been uploaded as well.
This is all the functionality I require, and there seems to
be many many packages available that seem to cost the earth and do
a lot more than I need. I have been trying to find one that does
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Any recommendations?
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:32:33 +0000 (UTC), "Doooza"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Has anyone used server based PDF creation components? I
am after some
>recomendations as I am sure someone here must have used
one before.
I played with
http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/ just
a bit. It seems easy enough
to use, but I haven't dug too deeply.

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