What program created this PDF?

[jimking]

I have 6 11x17 RGB lowres brochures, supplied PDFs . You can see that all was created in Photoshop with the warped, pixalated text etc. I've noticed when I select the image it only selects approx. 3 inch horizontal slices of the page. Looks bad all around. My thinking is these pdfs were generated from publisher. Is there a way to tell what program created these pdfs? I recall reading somewhere textedit will tell you at the header. I did this but no luck. Any one know for sure?  Thanks

[almaink]

Document Properties in Acrobat should tell the tale. Sounds like placed gif images with slices.

[beermonster]

that's the way - but if it was made from some fancy programme it doesn't always show up - i've seen that bit blank

[30YearsandCounting]

Open it up in Word as a text file and scroll down until you see "CreatorInfo".
Here is an example ....

<snip>
obj<</Type/OCG/Name(HeaderFooter)/Usage<</CreatorInfo<</Creator(Acrobat PDFMaker 6.0 for Word)>>/

[jimking]

I did find the info through Acrobat. I originally opened it in text edit and it was similar to what I found in Acrobat but organized much better. Creator: PScript5.dll  Producer: GPL Ghostscript 8.15. Sound familiar to anyone?

[doubting_thomas]

Ya, we have some clients that use Open Source or free PDF
creators. I see this in the document properties from these
clients. They mostly use a MS Office application for
layout, then these free creators to make their pdf files.
I often have the exact problems you're having when
trying to edit raster images contained in them. The other
thing I find annoying is how it encodes the fonts. In many
cases Acrobat can't identify which fonts are contained
in the pdf. Sounds like Publisher could be the culprit
if WordArt is used on the goofy text, but maybe newer
versions of Office can do that too.

You get what you pay for, and Ghostscript is free   :sad:

[jimking]

Ya, we have some clients that use Open Source or free PDF
creators. I see this in the document properties from these
clients. They mostly use a MS Office application for
layout, then these free creators to make their pdf files.
I often have the exact problems you're having when
trying to edit raster images contained in them. The other
thing I find annoying is how it encodes the fonts. In many
cases Acrobat can't identify which fonts are contained
in the pdf. Sounds like Publisher could be the culprit
if WordArt is used on the goofy text, but maybe newer
versions of Office can do that too.

You get what you pay for, and Ghostscript is free   :sad:

Thanks Thomas. No fonts used because you can tell the whole thing is a photo when you zoom close at the text. Got that lowres artifact look.

[frailer]

Only just "connected" these threads. May be relevant for someone trolling later. Linked below:


https://www.b4print.com/forums/index.php?topic=2536.0