pdf backgrounds

[mroberon1972]

I have a problem:

While I understand that the expensive tools seem to have the abilty to insert a background into a PDF, it seems the free tools are more limited in this.



I have a mirrored background file, and it borders both the left and right pages. While I am able to get it to print to PDF with the borders, the raises the size of the file up for every page with a background.

That's unacceptable...

What I need is a program or way to insert the mirrored page background to the pdf for each alternate page.

PDF95 can only do one background, applied to every page.

pfdcreate does not even seem to have the option.

I have found no software to do this after the fact...


Any of you ran across this problem before?

 

[annadobritt]

I have a problem:

While I understand that the expensive tools seem to have the abilty to insert a background into a PDF, it seems the free tools are more limited in this.

I have a mirrored background file, and it borders both the left and right pages. While I am able to get it to print to PDF with the borders, the raises the size of the file up for every page with a background.

That's unacceptable...

What I need is a program or way to insert the mirrored page background to the pdf for each alternate page.

PDF95 can only do one background, applied to every page.

pfdcreate does not even seem to have the option.

I have found no software to do this after the fact...

Any of you ran across this problem before?

Adobe Acrobat 6.0 can do this, but I don't know of any other pdf creating program that does.

 

[HellHound]

If you lay out the product using layout software (even free layout software, or even a word processor), you can include the graphic in your master page or master page style (although some word processors won't let you have alternativn page styles).

This way, it will epxort / print to your PDF publisher with the background graphic in place. The PDF publisher shoudl then notice that the background graphics are identical and then not have to resave the same file over and over again, thus keeping file size under control.

 

[mroberon1972]

If you lay out the product using layout software (even free layout software, or even a word processor), you can include the graphic in your master page or master page style (although some word processors won't let you have alternativn page styles).

This way, it will epxort / print to your PDF publisher with the background graphic in place. The PDF publisher shoudl then notice that the background graphics are identical and then not have to resave the same file over and over again, thus keeping file size under control.

That's the problem, HellHound: It doesn't... I have publisher 97 (Please, It's legal and I already have it. I'm working on better software...) and it has all the publishing features for background images, but when outputting to pdf, it seems to record it seperaitly. This sends file sizes throught the stratosphere...

Am I missing something?

 

[d20Dwarf]

it sounds like you already know the answer to your problem.

 

[annadobritt]

That's the problem, HellHound: It doesn't... I have publisher 97 (Please, It's legal and I already have it. I'm working on better software...) and it has all the publishing features for background images, but when outputting to pdf, it seems to record it seperaitly. This sends file sizes throught the stratosphere...

Am I missing something?

Can you adjust the distiller settings when making the pdf from Publisher 97? The dpi might be set too high.

 

[Cergorach]

Any of you ran across this problem before?

Nope, but then again, i'm not working with any of the apps your talking about.

But i would be willing to try and add them for you if you want...

 

[Dana_Jorgensen]

I have a problem:

While I understand that the expensive tools seem to have the abilty to insert a background into a PDF, it seems the free tools are more limited in this.

I have a mirrored background file, and it borders both the left and right pages. While I am able to get it to print to PDF with the borders, the raises the size of the file up for every page with a background.

That's unacceptable...

What I need is a program or way to insert the mirrored page background to the pdf for each alternate page.

PDF95 can only do one background, applied to every page.

pfdcreate does not even seem to have the option.

I have found no software to do this after the fact...


Any of you ran across this problem before?

I just spit out a pair of files with PDF995 with alternating background images, with the original files in Word 2000 and Pagemaker 7. So the problem isn't necessarily with PDF995. There are too many small variables that can cause problems. For instance, JAWS PDFmaker doesn't like Pagemaker 7's tables, and Acrobat doesn't appreciate extensive tables in Word...

Try dumping the file to postscript and running that through the various distillers you're trying. If you're still having problems, then the issue could be with your postscript driver.

 

[mroberon1972]

I just spit out a pair of files with PDF995 with alternating background images, with the original files in Word 2000 and Pagemaker 7. So the problem isn't necessarily with PDF995. There are too many small variables that can cause problems. For instance, JAWS PDFmaker doesn't like Pagemaker 7's tables, and Acrobat doesn't appreciate extensive tables in Word...

Try dumping the file to postscript and running that through the various distillers you're trying. If you're still having problems, then the issue could be with your postscript driver.

Good point, Just updated that though and it did not fix the problem.

I'm betting the older version of publisher does not send out the differance between the background and the foreground. Instead, it just sends out the page data as a whole...

Arggg...

I'm looking at a linux program called scribus, any of you guys run into this one before?