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!

We're working on a workflow to 'auto-size' pages and content for 3 different sizes of documents for print within PitStop Pro 11 - using PDFs created by our customers.  Most of these are created from Word and have all types of fun stuff (since our customers are not very skillful when it comes to formatting anything in Word) that we've figured out how to detect and remove before the content scaling. 

However, we can't figure out how to remove extra spaces that cause the 'art box' to expand well past the end of text.  In these cases, they have held down the space bar, inserted a bunch of tabs, or whatever to make the text flow - instead of using the built-in autoflow feature that was introduced in the 20s.   :wink:

In order to scale the content on the page properly, we would like to remove these before applying the design layout, so we're only scaling the visible text and art and setting the "art box" only to visible elements.  We've tried adding the "Remove invisible text/data" actions and they're not working as we want.

Any ideas?