"Save As" in Acro 7= fix!?

[frailer]

Anyone experienced re-saving a PDF to make it RIP-happy. This worked for me today on an imposed PDF forme, but I dunno why. It was Distilled via Acro 6 Pro. I know I should update it [it generates Watched Folder PDFs, post PREPS]. A re-save via Acro 7 stopped it from "hanging" in the RIP. I'm guessing the Acro 6 files are getting to be problematic, maybe. Too far outa whack with more and more later version content coming in. Maybe?

[David]

yes, "save as" cleans some crap out of a PDF file and makes it happy for me all the time, it can also reduce the file size, sometimes quite a bit.

a regular "save" won't do it, has to be a "save as".

[ninjaPB_43]

yep..  seen it here too.  doesnt always work for me, but has helped in the past..

[Ear]

All the time, especially high page count PDFs... It's only about 5% of the jobs, maybe less but it's a life saver. When it's REALLY bad, you can save as EPS then re-distill too.

[pdboddy]

I have seen this as well, it removes ... cruft... from the pdf.  Sometimes the reduce file size option works as well, if you save the pdf as a current or recent version.

[ninjaPB_43]

I have seen this as well, it removes ... cruft... from the pdf.  Sometimes the reduce file size option works as well, if you save the pdf as a current or recent version.

I believe the reduce file size can also reduce resolution depending on the settings in the "PDF optimizer dialog".

[pdboddy]

I have seen this as well, it removes ... cruft... from the pdf.  Sometimes the reduce file size option works as well, if you save the pdf as a current or recent version.

I believe the reduce file size can also reduce resolution depending on the settings in the "PDF optimizer dialog".

Yes, it can, and that's something to watch out for if you don't want your images downsampled.  Though, many times, that's what's increasing the size of a pdf...