"Fast Web View" PDFs and printing

[fishshed]

We have a bunch of high-res PDF files we post on our customer support site that customers can click to download, then re-supply to us for use with the custom books we produce.  So in essence, they can download up to 150, or so, preformatted pages of information that they can add to their own book info wherever they deem fit and send it all as a custom book to be printed.

So, for the web-version of these pages, those who created them have saved the pages with "Fast Web View" turned on, so they would display more quickly when customers are clicking through them - deciding which ones they want.  Some of the PDFs are multiple pages with high-res stuff in there, so some file sizes are rather large for dispersing via the web.  Hence, the decision to use the FWV setting.

But, I'm wondering if those same PDFs we are supplying with "Fast Web View" turned on will affect anything on the backend when we're actually printing them.  Anyone have knowledge on this stuff?  As far as I've read, the FWV setting is simply a type of file protocol to tell the browser how to display and download the entire PDF - allowing the pages to be loaded when selected instead of downloading the entire thing first.  But, does that change to the PDF structure have any affect on the quality and reliability of the same file if being used for printing?

The PDFs have had nothing else done to them compression-wise, resolution- or font-wise either.  Just that checkbox turned on when saving the PDFs out for posting on the web.


Thanks!

[Joe]

We have a bunch of high-res PDF files we post on our customer support site that customers can click to download, then re-supply to us for use with the custom books we produce.  So in essence, they can download up to 150, or so, preformatted pages of information that they can add to their own book info wherever they deem fit and send it all as a custom book to be printed.

So, for the web-version of these pages, those who created them have saved the pages with "Fast Web View" turned on, so they would display more quickly when customers are clicking through them - deciding which ones they want.  Some of the PDFs are multiple pages with high-res stuff in there, so some file sizes are rather large for dispersing via the web.  Hence, the decision to use the FWV setting.

But, I'm wondering if those same PDFs we are supplying with "Fast Web View" turned on will affect anything on the backend when we're actually printing them.  Anyone have knowledge on this stuff?  As far as I've read, the FWV setting is simply a type of file protocol to tell the browser how to display and download the entire PDF - allowing the pages to be loaded when selected instead of downloading the entire thing first.  But, does that change to the PDF structure have any affect on the quality and reliability of the same file if being used for printing?

The PDFs have had nothing else done to them compression-wise, resolution- or font-wise either.  Just that checkbox turned on when saving the PDFs out for posting on the web.


Thanks!

To the best of my knowledge...No.

Fast Web View restructures a PDF document for page-at-a-time downloading (byte-serving) from web servers. With Fast Web View, the web server sends only the requested page, rather than the entire PDF. This option is especially important with large documents that can take a long time to download from a server.

[David]

I agree, what he said...

should not affect your images when printing.

[gnubler]

Good 2 know.

[fishshed]

Thanks!  I just worried about the PDF structure being changed after originally being designed for print.