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1. Enter information in each text box of the dialog and click OK T he Convert document bookmarks into PDF named destinations option converts Word bookmarks into named destinations within the PDF This provides direct access to those topics using the Window gt Show Bookmarks options within Acrobat Selecting the Include hidden text option allows you to create a PDF which includes any text designated as hidden within Word Normally hidden text does not appear in the PDF file As a default this option is not selected 6 1 3 Links tab General Document Links Bookmarks Comments About m Hyperlinks to Process IV Use Intemet type hyperlinks IV Use cross document hyperlinks PDF Link Appearance Type finvisble st Highlight Invet Colour fue y Style oa i The options in the Hyperlinks to Process panel control which hyperlinks within your Word document are turned into links within the generated PDF file Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 39 Jaws PDF Creator Use the options in the PDF Link Appearance pane to configure how the links appear in the generated PDF file 6 1 4 Bookmarks tab Jaws PDF Creator Configuration x General Document Links Bookmarks Comments About Automatically open bookmarks in the PDF document to depth Destination magnification nherit zoom The Automatically open bookmarks in the PDF document to depth setting i
2. GLOBAL GRAPHICS Y _ aws Df creator Version 2 1 January 2002 COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS Jaws PDF Creator User M anual Version 2 1 January 2002 Part number J AW S 2 1 PD FC reator Copyright 1992 2002 GLOBAL GRAPHICS SOFTWARE LIMITED All Rights R eserved N o part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior writ ten permission of Global Graphics Software Limited The information in this publication is provided for information only and is subject to change without notice G lo bal Graphics Software Limited and its affiliates assume no responsibility or liability for any loss or damage that may arise from the use of any information in this publication The software described in this book is furnished under License and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of that License Adobe Adobe Photoshop Adobe Type M anager InDesign Acrobat Display PostScript and PostScript are regis tered trademarks and Distiller and PostScript 3 are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated Other brand or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders ii Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 END USER LICENCE This Licence and the terms and conditions contained within it is a legal agreement between you the End
3. an existing PDF file option is not selected a unique number is appended to the file name See Section 5 2 for more information An example of a name is Book pdf Book 1 pdf Book 2 pdf 4 4 Jaws ToPDF Configuration With the aws ToPDF application open use the Settings gt Configure option to open the Configure aws PDF Creator dialog saws Toror settings Select the configuration that you would like Jaws PDF Creator to use when p 3 generating PDF files Select the configuration that you would like Jaws PDF Creator to use when generating PDF files Press Ready gt Destination Q Always Prompt for a Destination Do Not Prompt for a Destination Always prompt for a destination Destination Do not prompt for a destination Edit Configurations Cancel IL ox C Three standard configurations are provided from the menu Press Ready Print Quality and web For more information on these options see Section 5 1 Any custom configurations you have created also appear in this menu Windows Use the Edit Configurations button to display the PDF Creator Control Panel where additional configurations can be defined M acO S Use the Open Control Panel button to display the PDF Creator Control Panel where additional configurations can be defined For more information on how to create a custom configuration see Section 5 1 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 4 Jaws ToPDF converting fi
4. 2 2 Font embedding PDF files are capable of containing fonts in three different formats PDF Creator is able to handle all three In common with Acrobat Distiller PDF Creator only ever embeds fonts that were embedded in the original PostScript language file Fonts that were read from disk including the base 14 PDF fonts but not includ ing TrueType fonts read as part of the substitution process described below are not embedded unless they are selected for embedding See Section 5 4 for more information A 2 2 1 Type 1 fonts Type 1 fonts are the traditional format for hinted fonts in the PostScript language community Type 1 fonts are always handled in a standard way by printer drivers and PDF Creator can always extract them from the document and embed them in the PDF file PDF Creator always converts Type 1 fonts to the new CFF Compact 56 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 A 2 Advanced topics Font Format which is a more compact way of encoding the same information Version 3 of Acrobat supports both the original Type 1 format and the Compact Font Format however there are some undocumented restrictions in the CFF com mands that Acrobat R eader understands For this reason you may sometimes find that PDF Creator embeds a Type 1 font which will not display correctly on screen but which does print correctly from Acrobat to a PostScript language com patible printer If you encounter such a font you should submit a PDF Cr
5. 66 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 A 3 Map of installed files A 3 MAP OF INSTALLED FILES The following tables list all the folders and files placed on your disk when you install PDF Creator A 3 1 Windows installation files In the table below Windows refers to the Windows folder and is relevant to Win dows 95 98 NT M eand 2000 Jaws PDF Creator refers to the folder in which you installed PDF Creator The default installation folder is on the same drive as your Windows installation and iS Program Files JawsSystems Jaws PDF Creator Jaws PDF Creator The main PDF Creator folder ToPdf exe The PostScript language to PDF conversion utility Readme txt A Text file with late breaking news PDFCreator hlp PD FCreator fts PD FCreator cnt PD FCreatorH Ip ico The PDF Creator on line help files Manual pdf This manual in Acrobat PDF format Licence txt A text file containing a copy of the end user licence agreement PDFCIS dll A helper library required when uninstalling PD FCreator95 inf W indows 95 setup information Can be used to reinstall the PD F Creator printer if accidentally deleted JawsPD FC reator dot JawsPD FC reatorInit dot These are the macro files for Word97 2000 JawsPdfC reatorlnit dot is a copy of the file installed in the Word startup directory and is provided so that you can add it to a subsequently installed copy of Word D efau
6. Creator reduces the resolution of images in the PostScript language file input You should set this to Don t downsample if your documents are intended for printing Subsample reduces the resolution of the image by dropping pixels Average reduces the size by averaging neighboring pixels and produces good quality results You cannot average a monochromeimagein PDF Creator unlike Acrobat Distiller PDF Creator does not promote such images to grayscale Bicubic reduces the resolution by performing bicubic interpolation to generate new pixel values This option can generate more pleasing results though the PDF will be slower to generate Bicubic is not available with monochrome images 5 3 2 Compression There are three compression filters available for dealing with images The Zip filter uses a lossless compression technique and normally produces good compres sion ratios It can optionally apply a predictor algorithm which can further improve the compression for some classes of image The PEG filter uses a lossy algorithm which irretrievably discards data but it produces excellent compression ratios on photographic images You can option ally modify some of the JPEG compression parameters by editing the file startup ps as described in Section A 2 4 1 TheCCITT filter uses standard fax compression and is only applicable to bitmap images You can control the selection of group 3 or group 4 fax compression in startup ps see S
7. Creator interpreter any output directed to any other port is not This also applies to non PostScript lan guage output so if you accidentally try to use a non PostScript language compatible printer driver with the PDF Creator port monitor a lot of error messages are displayed as PDF Creator tries to interpret a stream of binary data as if it was a stream of PostScript language PDFCreatorSV is started automatically by the PDF Creator port monitor when the first job is sent to the PDF Creator port PDFCreatorSV continues to run doing nothing for up to a minute after the PDF file has been gener ated If no other jobs are sent to the port in this time the PD FCreatorSV process automatically closes down reducing the memory demands on the system PD FCreatorSV is restarted if it is not already running when the next job is sent to the port monitor M acO S PDF Creator implements a custom hose which allows a developer to process the PostScript language output from the LaserWriter driver ver sion 8 6 or later in any way Windows To use any printer with Windows it is necessary to providea printer driver For PostScript language compatible printers this is easy as any one PostScript language compatible printer driver can handle all possi ble PostScript language compatible printers Any product specific features of a given printer such as which paper sizes are available can be described in a data file The universal means of doing this
8. TrueType font it is substituted H owever if the PostScript language file was originally produced on a different operating system to the one on which Jaws ToPDF is running at the time the text in the PDF output file may be garbled due to the mismatch between the fonts Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 59 Appendix A Technical Information on the two systems If you are using Jaws ToPDF in this way make sure you always convert PostScript language files that were created on the same system e Thealgorithm that the Windows NT driver uses to alter the font name is documented but not always reversible PDF Creator may occasionally fail to substitute a TrueType font because it is reconstructing the original font name incorrectly and therefore cannot find the original font on the disk This most likely occurs if you are subjecting the font to geometric transfor mations such as shearing the font to simulate an oblique face This kind of transformation is not possible with many Windows applications so you are unlikely to see this e The font is not being recoded when PDF Creator expects it to be The Win dows NT PostScript printer driver sometimes does not recode fonts when embedding them This is under control of the application printing the docu ment and is documented as a legacy feature in the driver Because there isno guaranteed indication in the PostScript language file that this has hap pened PDF Creator may still
9. embedding tab See Section 5 4 for more information Windows The main reason for installing TrueType fonts is so they can be used with the TrueType substitution feature described in Section A 2 2 3 For any bitmap or outline font to be a candidate for TrueType substitution the original TrueType font must be installed By default PDF Creator searches for and installs all TrueType fonts in your Windows directory when it is first installed H owever if you subsequently add any new TrueType fonts to your system you must manually make them available to PDF Creator using the Font M anagement options Clicking the Select Folder button displays a browser dialog allowing you to select the folder where PDF Creator can find the fonts you want to add T he System Fonts button is a short cut equivalent to opening the fonts folder 5 1 2 About Jaws PDF Creator This option displays useful information about your version of Jaws PDF Creator Windows Click the About Jaws PDF Creator button to determine the ver sion of the software you are using M acO S Access the About Jaws PDF Creator option from the Apple menu Version This is the version number of PDF Creator currently v2 0 22 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 5 Control Panel reference Kernel build This is a unique identification of the version of PDF Creator that you are using and should be included on all bug reports that you submit Serial No This is the Serial
10. file as Type 42 fonts Instead the driver uses the TrueType rasterizer in GDI to render each character as either an outline or a bitmap and then construct a Type 3 or unhinted Type 1 font using these outlines and bitmaps The choice between outlines and bitmaps is usually determined by the resolution of the printer and the point size of the text although it can be mod ified to some extent by the Download soft fonts as control in the printer setup It is important to realize that fonts enbedded in a document in this way only look their best when printed at the same resolution as the printer that was selected when the PostScript language file was generated At all other resolutions the text displays jagged edges In particular these fonts do not perform well when embedded into a PDF file To address this problem the PDF Creator TrueType font substitution code identifies the original TrueType font used for the text and embeds that font in the PDF file instead Both printer drivers do two things when generating PostScript language that makes this task more difficult e Firstly they alter the name of the font This is necessary because each font represents the output of the TrueType rasterizer at a specific point size and if the same font is used twice at different sizes in the document each instance must have a unique name PDF Creator contains code to recover the original font name from the font embedded in the file e Secondly they re
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12. is the font name and is found according to the same rules as the second name in Nrfontnames above The integer is a code telling PDF Creator whether or not to decode text that uses this font A value of 0 means decode a value of 2 means do not decode Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 61 Appendix A Technical Information A 2 2 4 TrueType fonts with the Adobe printer drivers for Windows The Adobe printer drivers for Windows 95 can also send TrueType fonts to the printer as bitmaps and outlines Unfortunately they do not include enough infor mation in the file to allow PDF Creator to identify the TrueType font concerned so no substitution takes place The resultant PDF file contains jagged unsearch able text These printer drivers can also send fonts to the printer as Type 42 fonts Whether you can select this from the printer driver Control Panel depends on the printer s capabilities the standard PDF Creator PPD file does allow you to select this but other PPD files might not If you choose to do this you get a hinted TrueType font embedded in your PDF file but the text will not be searchable In summary if you want to get the best results when producing a PDF file from a document that uses TrueType fonts you should use the M icrosoft printer drivers and enable TrueType substitution in PDF Creator This gives you the best visual quality and you are able to search for text in the PDF file and cut and paste text fro
13. is to issue a Post 52 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 A 1 How Jaws PDF Creator works Script Printer Description PPD file for each printer although the M icrosoft Windows 95 driver uses SPD files instead An SPD file is usually just a subset of the information from the printer s PPD file PDF Creator comes with its own PPD and SPD files M ost of the informa tion in a PPD file describes the physical attributes of a printer such as avail able page sizes installed fonts and so on For this reason you can often print a fileto one printer with a PPD filethat nominally describes a different printer This is also true for PDF Creator you should beable to print to the PDF Creator port using any PPD file although the PPD file that comes with PDF Creator would generally give you the best results As with any Post Script language compatible printer the more different the printer whose PPD file you are using the greater the risk of introducing subtle compatibil ity problems W hen the interpreter starts up normally before every job is processed it exe cutes the file default startup ps This file may contain any code that is to be executed once for all jobs You should only modify this file if you are capable of writing PostScript language code It contains the default parameter sets used by the image compression filters and the lists of TrueType fonts which require spe cial handling by PDF Creator For more informati
14. on screen message box This is useful for debugging You should not leave this option permanently enabled as the PostScript printer drivers nor mally cause messages to be generated continuously for a serial printer this allows tracking of the job but viewing each message individually can become quite tedious 5 6 2 Only log errors With this option checked only error messages are written to the log file normal progress and user messages continue to be displayed if that option has been selected but are not written to the log file 5 6 3 Discard messages If this is enabled all messages from the interpreter are discarded This is of usein a batch environment When enabled this also causes all error messages to be dis carded so you should use it with caution 5 6 4 Create individual log files for each job If this is enabled PDF Creator creates an individual log file for each job and writes messages generated by that job to its log file The log file is created in the same folder as the PDF file and with the same name but with a 1og extension It may be viewed with a text editor If the messages are merely informative the log file is created in addition to the PDF output file If an error occurs the PDF file is not created and the log file contains the relevant error messages 5 6 5 Log all messages to With this option selected the messages generated by all jobs are collected in a single log file The location and name of
15. the log file can be entered into the text box Alternatively use the browser to choose the location of the log file Windows Select the option then select the path displayed enter a new path or use the Browse option to select a new location and name M acO S When you select this option a Directory dialog box appears allow ing you choose the required name and location 36 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 6 Microsoft W ord macro W indows 6 MICROSOFT WORD MACRO WINDOWS Jaws PDF Creator treats M icrosoft Word as a special case When PDF Creator is installed on Windows platforms it creates a macro for Word97 and Word2000 applications This macro allows Word users to print directly to PDF Creator To create a PDF from Word select Jaws PDF Creator gt Create PDF File from the File menu A Jaws PDF Creator working message appears followed by a Create PDF Browser dialog that allows selection of the location and name of the PDF file This dialog also allows selection of the various security options that can be applied to a PDF file These security options are the same as the options provided within the PDF Creator Control Panel See Section 5 5 for more information 6 1 Word macro settings You can change the settings for PDF Creator from within Word Select Jaws PDF Creator gt Settings from the File menu The PDF Creator Configuration has a number of tabs for different tasks Click the various tabs to access and chan
16. the resolution if you experience poor quality output with pages con taining patterns or graduated fills 5 2 4 ASCII format If this option is selected any binary data including compressed text in the PDF file is converted to a printable ASCII representation This makes it safe to transmit your PDF pages over a medium that does not support binary transmission inter net e mail for example Using ASCII format will increase the size of your PDF file 5 2 5 Auto rotate pages PDF Creator will always honor requests for landscape output however some Windows applications will produce landscape output by rotating the output onto a portrait page When printed this is not a problem as the page can easily be rotated H owever when producing a PDF this leads to text running up the screen If Auto rotate Page is checked PDF Creator will look for and act on the ViewingO rientation DSC comment in the incoming PostScript job The ViewingO rientation comment explicitly specifies how to rotate the page from its default orientation so that the PDF is produced at its optimum viewing orientation The ViewingO rientation DSC comment is inserted into the job by the appli cation generating the PostScript files and or the printer driver Not all applica tions and drivers generate this comment Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 25 Jaws PDF Creator If ViewingO rientation is present in a job it will be used other
17. Creator 5 5 Security tab The options under the Security tab provide various levels of protection for your PDF documents Jaws PDF Creator Settings General Font Embedding Security Reporting MM Encrypt PDF Files Passwords Open Document Change Security Do Not Permit Users To O Print the Document O Change the Document O Select Text or Graphics O Add or Change Form Fields or Notes EVA SECURED Iw 5 5 1 Encrypt PDF files Select this option to encrypt the PDF files created by PDF Creator This option is as a default not selected When selected all other options within this tab become available 5 5 2 Passwords You can apply security to PDF files by entering passwords and restricting selected features such as editing and printing A PDF file can have both an O pen docu ment password and a Change security password If both passwords are applied the document can be opened using either one W hen the correct O pen document password is provided the document is opened and decrypted H owever use of the document is limited by whatever restrictions have been specified in the Do Not Permit Users to section of the dialog The Change security password allows the user to open the PDF and modify the security settings 34 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 5 Control Panel reference When a file is opened with a Change security password you h
18. Current Configuration Description The PDF file is optimised for sending to a commercial printer Images are not downsampled but are compressed with lossless compression all fonts are embedded and OPI links are retained r Configuration Manager Add Add a new PDF setup using default settings Duplicate Create a new PDF setup based on the current configuration Rename Change the name or description of the current configuration Delete the current configuration Font Management About Jaws PDF Creator Cancel Am Hep The menu in the Current Configuration section contains the name of the default configuration Windows If you want to use a different configuration choose another name from the menu and click the OK button M acO S If you want to use a different configuration choose another name from the menu This new selection is immediately available you do not have to close the dialog PDF Creator is supplied with three standard configurations that are suitable for most uses Press R eady Optimized for sending jobs to a commercial printer at 2400 dpi dots per inch Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 19 Jaws PDF Creator Print Quality Optimized for printing to office type laser printers at 600 dpi Web Optimized for screen viewing and for use in web pages at 72dpi As each option is selected notice that the window below contains a brief d
19. F Creator uses the name and company you entered during installation See Section A 2 4 2 for more information Windows It is possible to change this by editing the file default prologue ps in the Jaws PDF Creator folder M acO S It is possible to change this by editing the file default prologue ps in the Jaws PDF Creator Resources folder in your Extensions folder 2 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 3 Getting started with PDF Creator If you edit this file with a text editor you will see the following lines SESEB Here s how to change the Creator in the DocInfo structure Watch the YourNameHere DoAuthor Change vourNameHere to the text you would like and remove the s from the beginning of the line PDF Creator uses this for the author name Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 13 Jaws PDF Creator 4 JAWS TOPDF CONVERTING FILES TO PDF Jaws ToPDF isa front end to PDF Creator that lets you treat it as a stand alone application similar to Acrobat Distiller This allows you to convert existing Post Script language or EPS files to PDF Windows You cannot convert existing PostScript or EPS files by printing files to PDF Creator using the printer port For more information about the Windows printer port see Section A 1 1 Jaws ToPDF can accept PostScript language and EPS files including EPS with previews If Jaws TOPDF does not recognize a file format it generates a warning befor
20. PI Open Prepress Interface is used to reduce network traffic by substituting high resolution images with low resolution screen images for the purpose of screen display and page make up With this option selected O PI comments in the PostScript language input file are reproduced as OPI dictionaries in the PDF output It is not necessary for the high resolution image data to be available to PDF Creator it passes the file name through to the output PDF Creator produces only an OPI 1 3 dictionary only an OPI 2 dictionary or both depending on whether the PostScript language file input uses one or both versions of the OPI comments 5 3 Compression tab The three panels under the Compression tab allow different compression tech niques to be applied to different types of image Configure Jaws PDF Creator x Settings General Compression Font Embedding Security Reporting Resolution z2 dpi r Colour Images Downsample g Compression JPEG medium compres x M Greyscale Images Downsample Average z Resolution 2 dpi Compression PEG medium compres z Monochrome Images Downsample Subsample z Resolution foo dpi Compression ccitT Group 4 x M Compress Text Cancel Apply Help 30 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 5 Control Panel reference 5 3 1 Downsample The Downsample options allow you to control whether and how PDF
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22. View the PDF file after creation Select this option to automatically open your generated PDF file using the system registered PDF viewer application usually Adobe Acrobat If a viewer applica tion is not installed nothing will happen Send the PDF file as an e mail attachment This option will cause the active mail application to display a Send mail dialog with the generated PDF already included as an attachment M acO S To send a PDF as an e mail attachment under M acO S use the Launch application on job completion option see above Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 27 Jaws PDF Creator Overwrite an existing PDF file With this option selected PDF files with the same name as an existing file over write the existing file rather than create a file name with an increment This option only applies when the Do not prompt for a destination option is selected If Always prompt for a destination is selected you always have the choice of overwrit ing or creating anew name 5 2 7 Advanced button Click the Advanced button to access extra configuration options As with Acrobat Distiller PDF Creator allows you to apply different processing to full color grayscale or monochrome bitmap images Transfer functions This menu provides the option of preserving applying or removing transfer func tions from the PostScript language file If you select the Apply option the docu ment is displayed the same on screen as when pri
23. ady e Your name e Company name and address e E mail address e Company size e WherePDF Creator was purchased e Number of copies purchased e Theserial number supplied with the software Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 49 Jaws PDF Creator 9 CONTACT INFORMATION If you need to contact Global Graphics Software Limited directly for any reason you can use the address and numbers below Global Graphics Software Limited Barrington Hall Barrington Cambridge CB2 5RG United Kingdom Tel 44 0 1223 873 800 Fax 44 0 1223 873 873 Web site http www jawspdf com M ail regarding PDF Creator can be sent to sales jawspdf com 50 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 Appendix A Technical Information A 1 HOW JAWS PDF CREATOR WORKS This section describes how PDF Creator works and how it integrates with the operating system The information contained here is not essential for using PDF Creator however an understanding of the information will help you get the most out of the product PDF Creator is built around a complete PostScript language compatible inter preter in the same way as Acrobat Distiller In the case of PDF Creator the inter preter is called Jaws and is a clone interpreter developed for incorporation into hardware and software products Also as with Distiller the raster based back end of the interpreter has been replaced with code which outputs graphical primitives as text in thi
24. age Setup from any application Windows T here are two ways to achieve this 1 The first solution avoids this problem and lets you print to a standard page size instead A PDF file actually contains two boxes for each page the MediaBox S the notional paper size and the optional cropBox is the size to which the page content is cropped Acrobat Reader always uses the CropBox if it is present as the size of the page it displays on screen If your application is able to generate pdfmark code you may be able to set the CropBox for the pages you generate 2 Otherwise you have to generate a PostScript file that asks the printer to use the custom page size If you are using Windows 95 both the M icrosoft and Adobe PostScript printer drivers allow you to specify up to three custom page sizes for a printer from the Paper tab in the printer properties dialog If you are using Windows NT the printer driver has no provision for custom paper sizes however you can edit the PDF Creator PPD file with a text editor to add the required paper sizes which will then appear in the Printer Properties dialog in the usual way You should restart your computer after editing the PPD file Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 9 Jaws PDF Creator Unless you are using Windows NT the second solution is the easiest 3 5 Change the name or destination folder of the PDF file Unless you enable the Always output files to option in the General ta
25. and select the Always output filesto box Then select the folder in which you want to save the PDF files For more information see Section 5 2 6 10 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 3 Getting started with PDF Creator 3 7 Produce PDF files compatible with Acrobat PDF Creator can produce version 1 2 and 1 3 PDF files PDF 1 2 are compatible with Acrobat v3 PDF 1 2 and 1 3 files are compatible with Acrobat v4 or later If you do experience any problems reading PDF files download the latest version of Acrobat R eader free from the Adobe web site See Section 5 2 1 for more information 3 8 Produce files that can be sent by e mail To produce files that can more easily be sent by email select the General tab in the PDF Creator Control Panel and select the ASCII format check box For more information see Section 5 2 4 3 9 Produce more compact PDF files There are several options that have an effect on the size of the output file all of which are available in the Compression tab of the PDF Creator Control Panel The default settings after installation are designed to give the maximum lossless compression for general use The most important options are Compress text This option applies zip compression to the PDF com mands in page descriptions Subsetting embedded fonts This option can help in reducing the size of the output If you are working in a controlled environment choosing not to embed some or all fonts can f
26. arameters are stored in four PostScript dictionaries at the start of the file which give the parameters for the PEG low medium and high compression filters and the CCITT fax compression filter respectively If you understand how the PostScript compression filters work you can modify the parameters here to change the behavior of the filters The most common example might be to change the Q factor for one or more of the PEG filters The TrueType dictionaries are stored near the end of the file and are initially empty You can add the names of any fonts that you have determined require spe cial handling by the TrueType substitution code For more information on the format of these dictionaries see Section A 2 2 Font embedding A 2 4 2 prologue ps This file is executed by the interpreter at the start of each job This gives you the opportunity to make any changes that you want to apply on a per job basis Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 65 Appendix A Technical Information There are three pieces of example code here that you can use directly The first section of code enables collection of PostScript ProcSet resources The line systemdict NiknakDict get begin ExtractResources true def end turns on the collection of resources from incoming PostScript language jobs After installation this line is commented out the s at the start of a line introduces a PostScript language comment To enable collection of ProcS
27. attachment I Overwrite an existing PDF file OK Cancel Apply Help 5 2 1 PDF file format Use this option to create either PDF v1 2 or PDF v1 3 files PDF v1 2 files are compatible with Acrobat Reader version 3 0 PDF v1 2 and v1 3 files are compat ible with Acrobat R eader version 4 0 If you do experience any problems reading PDF files you should download the latest version of Acrobat R eader free from the Adobe web site 5 2 2 Thumbnail generation PDF Creator can optionally generate thumbnail images of each page either monochrome or color which can be used as a navigation aid in Acrobat R eader 24 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 5 Control Panel reference 5 2 3 Resolution This option allows you to change the effective resolution at which the PostScript language job is rendered This only affects jobs which contain resolution depen dent and therefore device dependent code If your job contains pattern fills the printer driver attempts to snap the pattern frequency to a sub multiple of the device resolution Some drawing packages also use the resolution in conjunction with the halftone frequency to calculate the number of steps to use for graduated fills All other page elements should be unaffected by the resolution If the PDF file is intended for printing you should set the resolution to be the same as the resolution of the intended final output device otherwise you should only change
28. ave unrestricted access to the document in effect the security restrictions are temporarily disabled If you wish to limit access to your file you should apply a Change security pass word otherwise anyone who opens the file is able to remove the restrictions It is important to note that Acrobat will not prompt for a password if no Open document password is entered when creating a secured PDF This means that when only a Change security password is used the document is opened without the user having to provide a password and use of the file is limited by whatever security restrictions have been imposed As a result if the user has only the free version of Acrobat they are never able to obtain unrestricted access to the document 5 5 3 Do not permit users to Each option selected in this panel restricts the ability of the user D eselect the func tions if you want to allow user access 5 6 Reporting tab This tab allows you to control what happens to messages generated by the Post Script language compatible interpreter Jaws PDF Creator ERY REIN CRN THEREIN SN Popo O L O Display Messages E Only Log Errors Q Discard Messages Create Individual Log Files for Each Job Log All Messages To Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 35 Jaws PDF Creator 5 6 1 Display messages With this option selected PDF Creator displays all messages generated by the interpreter in an
29. b of the Control Panel see Section 5 2 6 when you print to PDF Creator from an appli cation PDF Creator prompts you for a destination folder for the output file The default destination folder is the last folder you used and the file name is con structed from the document name provided by the application You may change either of these before clicking OK to save the PDF output file Jaws ToPDF does not prompt you for the output file name by default Instead the output fileis created in the same folder as the input file and with the same name except for a pa extension If you enable Always output files to in the G eneral tab of the PDF Creator Control Panel Jaws ToPDF places the file in this folder but with the same name as the input file and a pag extension M acO S The output files are saved as a PDF file type If you select Always prompt for a destination from the Configure Jaws PDF Creator dialog box in the aws ToPDF application window a prompt for an output file name appears for each file See Section 4 4 for more information about configuring the Jaws ToPDF application Windows This setting also affects jobs converted by dropping the input files onto the Jaws ToPDF short cut W hen the prompt for a name and destination folder appears you can also change the security options For more information see Section 5 5 3 6 Stop PDF Creator prompting for a file name In the PDF Creator Control Panel click the General tab
30. be embedded If a font is referenced by the incoming Post Script file and is available to PDF Creator it will be embedded in generated PDF file 32 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 5 Control Panel reference If this option is not selected the font will only be embedded if it is named in the Always embed list Any candidate for embedding is rejected if either it is one of the base 14 PDF fonts or it appears in the Never embed list 5 4 4 Embed base 14 fonts If this is selected all base 14 fonts present in the document are embedded in the output PDF file Selecting this option implicitly adds the base 14 fonts to the Always embed list 5 4 5 Subset fonts With this option selected only subsets of the original fonts are embedded in the PDF file This is the preferred setting as it leads to smaller files H owever select ing Subset fonts prevents you from subsequently using Acrobat plug ins or other tools that allow text editing within a PDF file as not all characters from the embedded fonts are available for use 5 4 6 Use original TrueType fonts Windows The Windows PostScript printer driver replaces TrueType fonts with bitmaps and unhinted outlines If this feature is selected PDF Creator will attempt to substitute the fonts generated by the printer driver with the original TrueType font This substitution is discussed in detail in Section A 2 2 3 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 33 Jaws PDF
31. cations and drivers that do not generate ViewingO rientation DSC comments a new option called PageO rientation has been added to the printer driver By default PageO rientation is switched off and the auto rotate setting in the PDF Creator configuration is respected There are four other options Rotate by 0 degrees Rotate 90 degrees counter clockwise Rotate 90 degrees clockwise and Rotate 180 degrees These four options all switch off auto rotate if it was enabled and apply the specified rotation to the page The page is rotated from its default orientation Because different applications do dif ferent things when for example they are asked to generate a landscape page from a portrait page and vice versa some trial and error is required 46 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 7 Troubleshooting This modification works under Windows 9x M e and Windows 2000 and M acOS but not Windows NT4 Therefore this modification is not available under Windows N T4 using the M icroSoft PostScript driver Blank pages disappear under W indows 95 This is due to a bug in the M icrosoft Windows PostScript driver which does not print blank pages An updated driver is available from M icrosoft Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 47 Jaws PDF Creator 8 SUPPORT 8 1 Download PDF Creator You areable to download further copies of PDF Creator from the Support page at www jJawspdf com To download an installe
32. code all the text in the document that uses the font Every character code is replaced by its glyph index within the font and all text using that font in the document undergoes a similar recoding so that for example a string Hello in the original document appears as Hoor in the PostScript language file Because the font and text are both recoded the string Hoor still gets printed on paper aS Hello but if the recoded font is distilled into PDF exactly as it appears in the PostScript language file you are not able to search for Hello in the PDF file nor cut and paste text from the PDF file to other documents If you enable TrueType font substitution PDF Creator attempts to replace the Type 3 or Type 1 font used in the PostScript language file with the original True Type font from disk This lets you embed the real hinted font in the PDF file 58 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 A 2 Advanced topics which in turn leads to more legible text when the document is viewed and printed PDF Creator will also undo the effect of the font recoding so that all strings such as Hoor in the file are turned back into Hello This process is normally reliable There are however a few situations that can cause problems e Code pages Windows uses two different kinds of TrueType font those that support more than one code page and those that do not You can dis tinguish between the two by looking in the Fonts menu of an application If
33. containing bookmarks and links 9 Create a PDF file using a custom page size 9 Change the name or destination folder of the PDF file 10 Stop PDF Creator prompting for afilename 10 Produce PDF files compatible with Acrobat 11 Produce files that can be sent by email 11 Produce more compact PDF files 11 Launch Acrobat Reader to view the file when complete 12 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 Issue date January 2002 vii viii O Change the author name in the PDF file 12 Jaws ToPDF converting files to PDF 14 Jaws ToPDF drag and drop Windows 14 Jaws ToPDF application Windows 15 Jaws ToPDF application MacOS 15 Jaws ToPDF Configuration 16 Control Panel reference 18 Settings tab 19 General tab 24 Compression tab 30 Font embedding tab 32 Security tab 34 Reporting tab 35 Microsoft Word macro Windows 37 Word macro settings 37 Troubleshooting 43 Support 48 Download PDF Creator 48 Reporting problems 48 Registering 49 Contact information 50 Technical Information 51 Index 71 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 Issue date January 2002 Jaws PDF Creator 1 INTRODUCTION Jaws PDF Creator converts PostScript language files into PDF Portable D ocu ment Format files These files can subsequently be used with Adobe Acrobat products or any other third party PDF tools The PDF files produced by PDF Creator are fully compliant with the PDF 1 3 specifications published by Adobe PDF Creator has two modes of operation e Theapplicat
34. cript language input files Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 45 Jaws PDF Creator To fix this click on Properties in the Print Setup dialog to display the Docu ment Properties dialog In the Page Setup tab click on Color under Color Appearance This ensures that the application knows it is printing to a color device Colors in the PDF file do not match original colors If you have enabled Convert CMYK to RGB under the Advanced button in the General tab in the PDF Creator Control Panel you may find that the color repro duction of some images is compromised There is no universal way to convert CM YK images to RGB for on screen viewing The algorithm that PDF Creator uses for this conversion has been tuned to work well with photographic images This means that it may not work so well for tinted images or graduated fills where the CM YK color contains a large black component If this happens you should deselect the Convert CMYK to RGB option This results in slightly larger PDF files but should have no other side effects Internet Explorer 4 01 locks up when printing This appears to be a problem with earlier versions of Internet Explorer 4 Win dows only Later versions do successfully print to PDF Creator on Windows 95 98 and NT If you experience this problem you should upgrade your version of Internet Explorer Rotation and applications and drivers that do not generate S A iewingO rientation For appli
35. cument name will be too long for the applica tion and it truncates the name and appends an ellipsis Some applications put an asterisk in the document name when a document has been modified M acO S This is not applicable to M acintosh versions of these applications All of these can cause PDF Creator to offer a default file name that is different to that which was expected H owever the file name that PDF Creator generates is always legal Windows When PDF Creator finds an illegal character such as a colon or backslash in the file name it replaces them with MacOS The colon is the only character that is not valid in a M acOS file name To rationalize document names that consist of an application s document name with a fixed prefix or suffix PDF Creator provides a means to remove anticipated prefixes and suffixes from document names before it creates the output PDF file name You can configure this by editing the DocNames txt file located in the PDF Creator installation directory For example if the Acme Wordpro word processor always prefixes documents with Acme Wordpro followed by the full path name of the document you are printing you could add an entry to the DocNames txt fileto instruct PD F Creator to strip Acme Wordpro from the beginning of any document name it sees To do this use any text editor to add a new line to the end of DocNames txt that reads SP Acme Wordpro If y
36. d folder If a folder has previously been selected use the Change button to choose a new location Execute on job completion Windows Launch application on job completion MacOS You can select an application which PDF Creator executes each time a job is suc cessfully converted to PDF Windows Select the option then either enter the full path or use the Browse option to select the required application 26 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 5 Control Panel reference If you wish you can use the string s as a place marker in this command line it is replaced by the actual name of the PDF file If you use Browse to locate the application to run a sis appended to the command line for you N ote The s place marker should be surrounded by double quotes if there is any possibility that the generated PDF file will be written to a filename where any component of the path contains a space For example C myapp myapp exe x p s M acO S When you click Browse a Directory dialog box appears allowing you to select the required application PDF Creator sends the nominated application an O pen Document AppleEvent If the application is not already running it will be launched Within the Jaws PDF Creator Scripts folder two scripts are available for selection The scripts create Eudora Message and Create Outlook Message open the respective applications with the previously generated PD F selected as an attachment
37. decode the text in the normal way This leads to garbled text in the PDF output file It is possible to correct these last two situations by editing the tables in the file default startup ps in the PDF Creator installation directory You can edit this file using any standard text editor In this file there are two tables one called nrfontnames and the other called NTfonttypes These are both PostScript dictionaries located near the end of startup ps The syntax of a PostScript dictionary is as shown NTfontnames lt lt My font0432 My_ font gt gt def The name of the dictionary appears first followed by the contents delimited by angle brackets The keyword deg associates the dictionary contents with its name The dictionary contents area list of pairs in free format although sticking to one pair per line makes the dictionary easier to maintain by hand NTfontnames S used to handle fonts whose names PDF Creator is unable to rec ognize automatically In this case each pair in the dictionary consists of two Post Script names A name is introduced by a slash and consists of the characters in 60 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 A 2 Advanced topics the name Spaces are not allowed in names but the font names you are using here will not contain spaces The first name in the pair is the font name as it appears in PostScript language output The second is the actual font name To discover the font name that i
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39. e processing Windows There are two ways in which you can use Jaws ToPDF as a drag and drop target or as an application M acO S You can drop a file on the application icon or on the open applica tion window or select a file using the Open option from the File menu 4 1 Jaws ToPDF drag and drop Windows If you have installed a desktop short cut you can use Jaws TOPDF as a drag and drop target You can drag files onto the desktop short cut to convert them to PDF By default the PDF file has the same name and is created in the same folder as the original file except that it has a pag file extension While each file is being con verted a small progress window appears PostScript to PDF Source File ERAZ E Destination File ESTEMPABOOKO pat as Se Pause Abort N ote If the destination file name already exists in that location and the Overwrite an existing PDF file option is not selected a unique number is appended to the file name See Section 5 2 for more information An example of a name is BOOK pdf BOOKO pdf BOOK1 pdf 14 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 4 Jaws ToPDF converting files to PDF 4 2 Jaws ToPDF application Windows You can run Jaws ToPDF as an application by double clicking the short cut on the desktop or by selecting Start gt Programs gt Jaws Systems gt Jaws ToPDF In this case a larger application window is displayed You can drag and drop files on
40. e prohibitions rights reserved under the copyright laws of the United States 10 CONTACT INFORMATION 10 1 Europe Help and assistance together with detail of support and maintenance are available on the website details of which are set out in the documentation accompanying the Software The End User should wherever possible seek help and assistance from and contact Global Graphics via the website however any written communications should be sent to the registered office details of which are set out in the pre amble to this Licence If sending mail or leaving bug reports on the web server please remember to include at least your email address so that we can reply to you Web Global Graphics Software Limited www jawspdf com Barrington H all Barrington E mail Cambridge CB2 5RG sales jaw spdf com UK telephone 44 1223 873 800 fax 44 1223 873 873 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 Contents 1 Introduction 1 About thismanual 2 System Requirements 3 2 Installing and uninstalling PDF Creator 4 Installation Microsoft Windows 4 Installation MacOS 4 Serial number 5 Upgrade from evaluation to a fully working version 5 Uninstall PDF Creator from Windows 6 Uninstall PDF Creator from MacOS 7 3 Getting started with PDF Creator 8 Createa PDF filefrom an application 8 Convert a PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript fileto PDF 8 Create a PDF file
41. eator bug report which will enable us to comply better with the undocumented restrictions A 2 2 2 Type 3 fonts Type 3 fonts are the format used in the PostScript language community for unhinted fonts such as complex logotypes and bitmap fonts PDF Creator does support Type 3 fonts and will embed them A 2 2 3 TrueType fonts TrueType is an alternative format for hinted fonts which originally evolved in the personal computer community rather the PostScript language community M any modern PostScript language compatible interpreters including PDF Creator are able to handle TrueType fonts directly but for historical reasons PostScript printer drivers make life more difficult The following paragraphs describe how the various PostScript printer drivers handle TrueType fonts and how PDF Creator s TrueType font substitution works with each of them TrueType fonts with the MacOS LaserW riter driver These are the easiest to handle TheM acOS printer driver embeds TrueType fonts in the PostScript language file as Type 42 PostScript fonts PDF Creator can handle these directly and embed the font in the PDF output file This happens regardless of whether TrueType substitution is on or off Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 57 Appendix A Technical Information TrueType fonts with the Microsoft printer drivers The M icrosoft printer drivers for both NT and Windows 95 cannot embed True Type fonts in the PostScript language
42. ection A 2 4 1 5 3 3 Resolution If you have enabled downsampling this option lets you specify the target resolu tion of the reduced images actually embedded in the PDF file 5 3 4 Compress text If this is selected PDF Creator compresses textual information such as page descriptions using Zip compression Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 31 Jaws PDF Creator 5 4 Font embedding tab Jaws PDF Creator N Caprese For Creaa ST RD Always Embed Never Embed Add Remove Remove MM Embed All Fonts Except Base 14 Fonts O Embed Base 14 Fonts O Subset Fonts 5 4 1 Always embed Fonts listed in this box are always embedded in the output PDF file Use the Add and Remove buttons to manage this list You should check the terms of your font license agreement before embedding any fonts N amed fonts will be embedded if they are referenced in the original PostScript language file and are available to PDF Creator 5 4 2 Never embed Fonts listed in this box are never embedded in the output PDF file Use the Add and Remove buttons to manage this list 5 4 3 Embed all fonts except base 14 fonts W hen this option is selected all fonts present in the document except base 14 fonts are embedded in the output PDF file With this option selected all fonts that were embedded in the PostScript language file by the printer driver or gener ating application will
43. es from the path to obtain a simple file name Lastly PDF Creator appends a pdt extension to the file name M acO S If the document ends with a recognized suffix ps Or eps it is removed before pd is appended This is the file name which PDF Creator offers you in the Save dialog box it nor mally displays for every job The output folder is determined by considering the following options The folder specified by the Always output files to option in the General tab in the PDF Creator Control Panel if selected The folder given as part of the document name if there is one Windows only Thelast folder to which PDF Creator wrotea PDF file Unless the Always output files to option is selected PDF Creator always provides you with the opportunity to change both the folder and the filename using a browser dialog Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 A 2 Advanced topics At times you may be surprised at the file names that PDF Creator generates in this way The reason for this is that the document name is not normally used by the printing system except in dialogs to provide information about the status of the job This means that there is no official format for the document name and most applications make up their own rules Some applications such as M icrosoft Word 97 add the application name before the document name Some such as Adobe PageM aker put the full path in the document name Occasionally a do
44. escrip tion of that option If none of the existing configurations are appropriate you may create a new one Windows Use the Add or Duplicate buttons Add creates a configuration with the default settings Duplicate copies the settings from the currently selected configuration M acO S Select the configuration which most closely matches your intended new configuration and click Duplicate Although a unique name for the configuration is generated automatically you may want to change the name and description to reflect the intended use If you want to make changes to an existing configuration select it from the menu then make the desired changes to the other tabs Windows Y our changes become effective when you click either the OK or the Apply button Clicking OK accepts the changes and closes the Control Panel Clicking Apply accepts the changes but leaves the Control Panel open Clicking Cancel aborts any recent changes and closes the Control Panel M acO S N ew options are immediately available you do not have to close the dialog To abort recent changes use the Edit gt Undo menu option You may change the name or description of an existing configuration by selecting it and clicking the Rename button You may removea configuration by selecting it from the list and clicking the Remove button The standard configurations that are shipped with PDF Creator may not be renamed or removed therefore these buttons are disabled w
45. et resources uncom ment the line by removing the s using a text editor When you have collected all the ProcSet resources you need you should comment out this line again The code to override the default author and creator information normally extracted directly from the PostScript language file being converted that is stored in the Info dictionary in the PDF output file is also located here The code for each field is similar The PostScript procedure DoAuthor changes the author name YourNameHere DoAuthor This causes yourNameHere to appear as the author of the document DoAuthor works by mangling the ssAuthor comment present in the job which is why the operand to DoAuthor must start with a colon and space before the name itself The PostScript procedure Docreator changes the creator in the same way CreatorName DoCreator After installation the example lines for DoAuthor and DoCreator in prologue ps are both commented out If you wish to change the author or cre ator information you must uncomment these lines by removing the initial as well as changing the strings to reflect the names that you want A 2 4 3 epilogue ps This file is executed by the interpreter at the end of each successful job Any Post Script language code placed here is included in the PDF file if it generates any pages of output M oreimportantly you may wish to place any calls to pdfmark here that you want to be applied to all jobs you convert
46. for more information W hen the configuration for the Jaws ToPDF application is completed select OK Selecting Cancel aborts the changes made to the configuration Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 17 Jaws PDF Creator 5 CONTROL PANEL REFERENCE This section describes all the options available in the Configure Jaws PDF Creator Control Panel N ote The first three dialogs in this section are from the Windows version and the last three are from the M acOS version Use the following options to open the Configure aws PDF Creator Control Panel Windows Select Start gt Settings gt Control Panel and then double click the Jaws PDF Creator icon M acO S Select Apple Menu gt Control Panels gt Jaws PDF Creator From the aws ToPDF application window select Settings gt Configure fol lowed by clicking the Open Control Panel button ThePDF Creator Control Panel has a number of tabs for different tasks Click the various tabs to access and change the information contained under that heading The following sections describe the options contained within each tab 18 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 5 Control Panel reference 5 1 Settings tab Typically the options in this tab are the most frequently changed You can choose the default configuration that PDF Creator will use to create PDF files Configure Jaws PDF Creator x Settings General Compression Font Embedding Security Reporting r
47. ge the information contained under that heading The following sections describe the options contained within each tab 6 1 1 General tab General Document Links Bookmarks Comments About IV Create PDF Links from hyperlinks M Create PDF Notes from document comments IV Create PDF Links from Tables of Contents Figures and Equations Create PDF Links to footnotes and endnotes M Create PDF Links from cross references M Create PDF article threads from linked text boxes I Send the generated PDF file as an email attachment IV Automatically open the generated PDF file IV Prompt for the location of the output PDF file Tl Keep the intermediate PostScript ps file after PDF creation Cancel All the Create PDF options are selected as a default and should generally be left selected If required you can deselect any of these options Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 37 Jaws PDF Creator Select the Automatically open the generated PDF file option to automatically open in Acrobat every PDF file created from the Word macro Thesetting of this option will override the setting of View the PDF file after creation option in the General tab of the PDF Creator Control Panel For more information see Section 5 2 Select Prompt for the location of the output PDF file to display a browser allowing you to change the location and name of every PDF file generated from the Word macro You may want to use Ac
48. hen a standard con figuration is selected from the menu 20 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 5 Control Panel reference The standard configurations cannot be modified they are read only If you do make changes to a standard configuration you are prompted to save the modified configuration with a new name Windows A configuration name can contain any characters you wish except for backslash Leading and trailing spaces are removed from the name Configuration names must be unique and are not case sensitive that is ConfigN ame and configN AM E are considered to be the same 5 11 Font management Windows Click the Font Management button in the Settings tab M acO S Click the File gt Manage Fonts option M acintosh format fonts are supported This dialog allows you to control which fonts are installed and available to the PDF Creator printer These fonts are always installed on your disk of course but you can control whether or not they are visible to PDF Creator and therefore whether or not they can be loaded by the PostScript f indfont operator This dialog lets you manage both Type 1 fonts also known as ATM fonts or PFB format fonts and TrueType fonts Each kind of font is distinguished by an icon in the margin This option makes no distinction between PFB format PFA format an ASCII format for Type 1 fonts typically used on UNIX platforms or raw PostScript files containing Type 3 fonts All of the
49. ile which explicitly requests LZW using the setdistillerparams operator If so you should amend the PostScript language file to request Zip com pression instead In addition to this if an error Error invalidaccess OffendingCommand filter is encountered it is usually because a PostScript job is explicitly attempting to use either the LzwEncode OF LZWDecode filter This may happen if you attempt to con vert to PDF a PostScript file that was produced by printing a PDF from Acrobat Reader If this error does appear you must find an alternative method of produc ing the PostScript file that does not make use of LZ W compression Color documents produce grayscale PDF files on Windows NT This is due to an interaction between the Windows NT PostScript printer driver and certain applications An application can poll the printer driver to see if it is for a color device or not Some applications do this and generate monochrome Post Script language output if a monochrome printer driver is detected W hen printing to a monochrome printer this produces a smaller PostScript language file which prints more quickly H owever if your default printer is monochrome and in Print Setup you subsequently switch to a color printer this setting is not updated and the application still believes that it is printing to a monochrome device This results in monochrome PDF files being produced by PDF Creator because it is being given monochrome PostS
50. ings select either Substitute with Device font Of Download as Softfont To change the Font Substitution table 1 Right click the Jaws PDF Creator printer 2 Select Properties 3 In Device Settings tab under Font Substitution Table change the required system font to an appropriate base 14 font from the list Windows 98 To configure whether to download TrueType fonts as Softfonts or to substitute for device fonts 1 2 3 Right click the Jaws PDF Creator printer Select Properties In the Fonts tab select Send TrueType fonts to the printer according to the font Substitution Table button To change the Font Substitution table 1 2 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 In the Fonts tab select the Edit the Table button In the fonts list change the required system font to an appropriate base 14 font from the list Appendix A Technical Information A 2 3 PostScript ProcSet resources Fonts are one kind of resource that the PostScript printer driver may embed ina PostScript language file Procedure sets or ProcSets are another Typically both the printer driver and the application itself can generate ProcSets which are used to define PostScript language procedures which are frequently used by the docu ment These ProcSets are identified by comments within the PostScript language file The convention used for these identifying comments allows a printer driver to omit a resource from a file when i
51. ion is embedded into the printing system of your computer s O perating System so that it appears as a PostScript compatible printer to applications running on that computer You can produce a PDF file from any document by printing the document to the aws PDF Creator printer in the same way that you would produce hard copy by printing to a real printer e Also included is a program called Jaws ToPDF which takes an existing PostScript language file either a legacy file or a file produced on another computer and converts it to PDF This program provides a small user interface which lets you treat PDF Creator as a stand alone application similar to Adobe Acrobat Distiller Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 Jaws PDF Creator e When creating PDF files the printing system produces an intermediate PostScript language form of your document which PDF Creator immedi ately converts to PDF and writes to disk Jaws PDF Creator works with PostScript printer drivers from M icrosoft Apple and Adobe although on a Windows system M icrosoft drivers are generally to be preferred for reasons discussed in more detail later Because PDF Creator is integrated into the printing system it has no user interface of its own H owever it does have a Control Panel which allows you to configure various parameters affecting the final PDF output 1 1 About this manual This manual is intended as a guide to the installation and use of PDF Creat
52. ion regarding serial numbers is stored in a part of the system registry which is normally only accessible to those users with Administrative privileges 2 5 Uninstall PDF Creator from Windows To remove Jaws PDF Creator from a Windows computer 1 Select Settings gt Control Panel from the Start menu 2 Inthe Control Panel click Add Remove programs and select Jaws PDF Creator in the list 3 Click the Add Remove button to remove the program A confirmation prompt is displayed 6 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 2 Installing and uninstalling PD F Creator In some circumstances the uninstaller is unable to renove the PDF Creator printer from the Windows printing system If this happens a message is displayed asking you to wait a few minutes and re attempt the uninstall If the second attempt also fails you should reboot your computer and uninstall again 2 6 Uninstall PDF Creator from MacOS To remove PDF Creator from a M acOS computer 1 Doubleclick the install application followed by clicking Continue in the splash screen 2 Inthe End User Licence Agreement dialog click Accept to display the installer s main window 3 Select Uninstall from the menu at the top left of the window and click the Uninstall button 4 Oncethe removal has completed drag the PDF Creator Desktop Printer icon to the Trash Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 7 Jaws PDF Creator 3 GETTING STARTED WITH PDF CREATOR Thi
53. les to PDF Jaws ToPDF can be configured to either prompt for an output file name or to save the file in the default output folder When you select Always prompt for a destination a PDF Creator browser dialog is displayed every time you convert a file This allows you to change the output file name or place it in a different folder If you select Do not prompt for a destination Jaws ToPDF silently outputs the PDF fileto the default output folder Although you can only change this setting from the aws ToPDF application window it also affects any jobs which are converted by being dropped onto the desktop icon or short cut Whether or not you ask Jaws ToPDF to prompt for a destination it calculates the default output folder in the same way This is the same folder as the input file unless you have set the Always output files to option in the General tab in the PDF Creator Control Panel in which case it is the folder you have specified See Section 5 2 for more information about the General tab in the PDF Creator Control Panel If you have configured Jaws ToPDF not to prompt for a destination this is the folder that is actually used if you have asked Jaws ToPDF to prompt you the browser dialog still allows you to change the output folder When you convert an EPS file Jaws ToPDF uses the bounding box in the file to determine the page size for the PDF file and ignores the currently selected Use BoundingBox for option See Section 5 2 7
54. lt See general files Font See general files Resource See general files temp This folder is used for temporary files during conversion and should nor mally be empty between jobs TT Font This folder is used for TrueType font stub files PFBFont This folder is used for ATM font stub files Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 67 Appendix A Technical Information The following files are installed in various Windows directories on Windows NT systems Windons system32 spool drivers w 32x86 PD FCreator PPD The PostScript Printer D escription file This defines the capabilities of the PDF Creator printer to the printer driver Windong system32 PDFCreator cpl The PDF Creator Control Panel PD FCreatordll The PDF Creator PostScript language compatible interpreter PD FCreatorSV exe Contains the main part of PDF Creator the actual interpreter The following files are installed in the Windows directory on Windows 95 98 systems Windona system PDFCreator cpl The Control Panel applet for configuring PDF Creator PD FCreatordll Contains code to manage the PDF Creator port PD FCreatorSV exe Contains the main part of PDF Creator the actual interpreter PD FCreator ppd The PostScript Printer Description file used by the Microsoft PostScript driver it defines the capabilities of the PDF Creator printer PD FCreator spd A simplified PostScript Printer Description file used by
55. m the file to other applications If for some reason you need to use either of the Adobe printer drivers you should elect to send TrueType fonts to the printer as Type 42 fonts This gives you the best visual quality when viewing the PDF file but you are not able to search for text in the file or cut and paste text to other applications Please note that the licence from Adobe for use of their latest Post Script drivers for Windows 95 and NT precludes the use of those drivers to print to printers which do not contain an Adobe interpreter PDF Creator does not con tain an Adobe interpreter A 2 2 5 Searchable text in a PDF Device font substitution may result in some glyphs being omitted if they are present in the TrueType font but not in the substitution font TrueType font substitution is more successful in Windows NT 98 and the corre sponding settings for these operating system printers are shown below To configure your printer for font substitution you must e Set the printer to substitute for device fonts e Select the alternative base 14 font for the system font being used 62 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 A 2 Advanced topics Windows NT To configure whether to download TrueType fonts as Softfonts or to substitute for device fonts 1 2 3 4 Right click the Jaws PDF Creator printer Select Document Defaults In the Advanced tab select TrueType Font under Graphic Under the TrueType Font Sett
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57. n this tab collapses or expands the document headings when the PDF is opened T he Destination magnification option decides the zoom value when the PDF file is opened A number of Fit page to options are provided The Inherit zoom option opens the PDF with the zoom value currently selected in Acrobat 40 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 6 Microsoft W ord macro W indows 6 L5 Comments tab Jaws PDF Creator Configuration x General Document Links Bookmarks Comments About Reviewer RENIN z IV Include comments by this reviewer IV Display the comments opened Colour for this reviewer s comments Yellow fd If your Word document contains comments PDF Creator lets you convert those comments into sticky notes type comments in the created PDF file Using the Reviewer menu to select the name of each reviewer For each reviewer selected you can choose whether to automatically include the comments by that reviewer whether to display those comments open in the generated PDF file and to select a color for any included comments Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 41 Jaws PDF Creator 6 1 6 About tab Jaws PDF Creator Configuration This tab provides useful contact and version information 42 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 7 Troubleshooting 7 TROUBLESHOOTING The application I m printing from goes blank when I print to PDF Creator Only applicable to Windo
58. nd that ProcSets are PostScript lan guage code and usually subject to copyright restrictions Saving the resources to disk is equivalent to permanently downloading them to a printer the authors of your application may or may not have granted you permission to do this 64 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 A 2 Advanced topics You should only make use of this feature if you are working in a controlled envi ronment and you are already comfortable with the idea of ProcSet resources A 2 4 Custom PostScript language files There are three PostScript language files that are executed by the interpreter T hey are found in the Default subfolder of the folder where you installed PDF Creator You can use these files for any custom PostScript language code that you want to be executed N eedless to say you should only modify these files if you are com fortable with writing PostScript language code Windows T hese files arein the c Program Files JawsSystems Jaws PDF Creator Default M acO S Thefiles arein the system folder Extensions Jaws PDF Creator Resources default A 2 4 1 startup ps This file is executed when the interpreter first starts up You can use it to make any global changes In particular the parameters that PDF Creator uses for the JPEG and CCITT image compression filters are stored here as well as the lists of TrueType fonts that need special handling by the TrueType substitution code The image compression p
59. nt on the nature of the job being converted into a PDF file Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 3 Jaws PDF Creator 2 INSTALLING AND UNINSTALLING PDF CREATOR If you are using N iknak v1 1 on your system it is recommended that you unin stall it before installing Jaws PDF Creator If you are using an earlier version of 5D PDF Creator on your system thereis no need to uninstall before installing the current version 2 1 Installation Microsoft Windows Jaws PDF Creator is supplied on CD ROM with its own installer If you have Autorun enabled the installer starts automatically when you insert the CD ROM into the drive O therwise use one of the following three options 1 Select Settings gt Control Panel from the Start menu In the Control Panel window select Add Remove Programs and click the Install button on the dialog box which appears Enter D setup exe followed by clicking the Finish button 2 Select Run from the start menu and then enter p setup exe If your CD ROM is assigned to a different drive letter enter a different file name accordingly then click OK 3 Using Explorer open the root folder for your CD ROM drive and double click the program setup exe At this point the Jaws PDF Creator InstallShield Wizard will appear prompting for a password To complete the installation follow the instruc tions displayed on the screen If you do not have a password for the installer contact www ja
60. nted Convert CMYK to RGB This option only applies to color images If it is enabled any four color CM YK images in the PostScript language input file are converted to RGB images in the PDF output This can result in a smaller PDF file that displays more quickly You should enable this if your documents are intended for on screen viewing and dis able it if they are intended for printing Enabling this option can cause an apparent color shift in the images to which it is applied The conversion that PDF Creator uses is better suited to photographic images than to CM YK approximations of spot colors You may find that on screen reproduction of some graduated fills and tinted images is better with this option disabled than with it enabled Convert device independent colors to device dependent colors With this option selected PDF Creator converts colors specified in device inde pendent CIE based color spaces into device dependent RGB This produces PDF files which display more quickly O therwise these colors are converted into a 28 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 5 Control Panel reference device independent calibrated RGB color space This produces PDF files which render more slowly but whose colors are more constant across properly set up output devices Preserve halftones With this option selected any halftone changes requested by the job are passed through to the PDF file You should select this option when prod
61. number you entered when installing the registered version of PDF Creator You need this if you wish to report bugs or otherwise require support If you installed a demonstration version of PDF Creator this will read Demonstration version Debugging mode Selecting this box causes PDF Creator to generate a ver bose log describing its progress through the document You may be asked to provide this information after you have filed a bug report Otherwise you should leave this disabled O nce you have generated the requested debug log you must remember to switch off Debugging M ode otherwise the debug file continues to grow in size with every job distilled until your hard disk is full M acO S D ebugging mode is hidden The Enter Serial Number option is used to license your version of Jaws PDF Creator For moreinformation see Section 2 3 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 23 Jaws PDF Creator 5 2 General tab This tab provides options to configure the type of PDF file the location for the file and the actions to perform when the PDF has been created Settings General Compression Font Embedding Security Reporting File Options PDF File Format PoF v13 O n Thumbnail generation Noe S Resolution a0 dpi T ASCII format M Auto totate Pages Output Options I Always output files to E I Execute on job completion Browse I View the PDF file after creation I Send the PDF file as an email
62. on about the contents of startup ps see Section A 2 4 1 In addition the PostScript language compatible interpreter executes the file default prologue ps at the start of every job it converts This file can contain any PostScript language code that needs to be run for every job An example of this is the code that changes the contents of the document info dictionary in the PDF output file described above It also executes the file default epilogue ps at the end of every job This may be used for example for any pdfmark calls that you may want to apply to every job you convert See Section A 2 4 2 for more information On prologue ps and Section A 2 4 3 for more on epilogue ps Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 53 Appendix A Technical Information A 2 ADVANCED TOPICS This section describes topics to do with file names and font embedding A 2 1 File names PDF Creator has two strategies for creating the output file name depending on whether you are using the PDF Creator printer or are converting files with Jaws ToPDF When you are printing directly to PDF Creator from an application the document name passed to it by the printing system is used as a starting point from which to generate the name of the PDF output file Windows If the document name contains a file extension the extension is removed and if it appears to contain a path specification such as c documents PDF Creator removes all the drive and folder nam
63. onts Adobe printer drivers for Windows 62 M acO S LaserW riter driver 57 M icrosoft printer drivers 58 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 Issue date January 2002
64. or e Section 2 describes how to install upgrade and uninstall PDF Creator e Section 3 covers basic use of both the Jaws PDF Creator printer and the Jaws ToPDF front end e Section 4 describes the Jaws ToPDF application in more detail e Section 5 provides a comprehensive reference for the PDF Creator Control Panel This is where most of the configuration is done e Section 6 describes how to use and configure the Jaws PDF Creator macro for Microsoft Word on Windows e Section 7 is the troubleshooting guide e Section 8 is where you will find all the support information you may require such as how to register your copy and download new versions e Section 9 is the location of all the required contact information e Section A contains technical and more advanced information about PDF Creator as well as a map of all the installed files Throughout this manual references to Acrobat Reader should be understood to apply equally to Acrobat This manual describes Jaws PDF Creator operation on both the M icrosoft Win dows and the A pple M acintosh platforms Differences in operation or features are indicated by using different headings or separate paragraphs 2 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 1 Introduction 1 2 System Requirements The system requirements are e Windows 95 98 ME 2000 XP or NT4 for Intel e MacOS8 5 or later e Atleast 10 M Bytes of free disk space e Memory requirement is heavily depende
65. ou have an application that adds a suffix to the document name instruct PDF Creator to remove it by adding a line like this to the end of the DocNames t xt file Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 55 Appendix A Technical Information SS Acme Wordpro Thess and sp directives which must be at the start of a new line mean Strip Suffix and Strip Prefix respectively PD F Creator is supplied with a DocNames txt file that rationalizes document names used by some common applications M acO S This option is not supported under M acOS PDF Creator never overwrites an existing output file without prompting unless the Overwrite an existing PDF file option in the General tab of the Control Panel is selected If you have selected Always output files to from the Control Panel and a file with the same name already exists PDF Creator appends a unique number to the file name When you use Jaws ToPDF to convert existing files PDF Creator uses the input file name instead of the document name because there is no document name as the basis for the output file name PDF Creator uses the name and location of the input file as the default destination except that the file extension is replaced by pd f If Always output files to is selected the file is saved in this location If not PDF Creator displays the browser dialog and allows you to change the output file name See Section 5 2 for more information in the General tab A
66. ove Any copies that you are permitted to make pursuant to this Licence must contain the same copyright and other proprietary notices that appear on or in the Software 2 9 sublicense assign rent lease lend export or re export or otherwise market or distribute the Software or any portion thereof 2 10 Modify change alter adapt translate reverse engineer decompile disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Software or create derivative works from the Software except that in the European Community you may reverse engineer only for interoperability purposes and then only if all conditions of Article 6 of Council Directive 91 250 EEC are met 3 WARRANTY 3 1 Global Graphics warrants to the End User that the Software will perform substantially in accordance with the documentation supplied with the Software for the ninety 90 day period following receipt by the End User of the Software To makea warranty Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 3 2 3 3 claim the End User must return the Software to the location where obtained it together with a copy of proof of purchase within such ninety 90 day period If the Software does not perform substantially in accordance with the documentation supplied with the Software the entire and exclusive liability and remedy shall be limited to either at Global Graphics option 3 2 1 the replacement of the Software or 3 2 2 the refund of the Total Charges The
67. r you must either provide a valid serial number or legiti mate e mail information You will then be provided with a password for the installer H ave the following information ready e Serial number if you have one e Your name e Job title e Company name e Telephone number e E mail address e Platform on which PDF Creator is going to be used e Language 8 2 Reporting problems There is a FAQ section under the Support page at www jawspd com If your problem is not covered here you should submit a bug report When submitting a problem you should provide the following information e Operating system M acO S Windows 95 98 ME 2000 NT e Version of PDF Creator e Kernel build time The kernel build time uniquely identifies the PDF Creator kernel you are using e Class of problem kills application kills PDF Creator kills O perating Sys tem incorrect output 48 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 8 Support e Detailed description of problem e Contact details The kernel build time is available in the About Jaws PDF Creator box Windows Click the About Jaws PDF Creator button to determine the ver sion of the software you are using M acO S Access the About Jaws PDF Creator option from the Apple menu 8 3 Registering Jaws PDF Creator can be registered on the World Wide Web Point your browser at www jawspd f com and select the Support page and fill in the form You should have the following information re
68. reator See separate table for more information Printer Descriptions Jaws PDF Creator PPD The PostScript Printer Description file used by the LaserW riter driver it defines the capabilities of the PDF Creator printer Preferences Jaws PD F Creator Preferences This file contains all of your PDF Creator Preferences and Configurations Printing Plug ins Jaws PDF Creator The core PDF Creator PostScript language to PDF converter library Control Panels Jaws PDF Creator The Jaws PDF Creator Control Panel Jaws PDF Creator R esources Jaws PDF Creator Resources This folder found in your Extensions folder contains items that are required by PDF Creator Jaws PDF Creator File App A small application that prompts you to enter a PDF file name This is used by PDF Creator during the conversion process D efault See general files Font See general files Resource See general files A 3 3 General files used by all operating systems D efault A folder PDF Creator uses for miscellaneous files epilogue ps A PostScript language file run after every job see Section A 2 4 3 prologue ps A PostScript language file used to configure PDF Creator see Section A 2 4 2 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 Appendix A Technical Information D efault A folder PDF Creator uses for miscellaneous files startup ps A PostScript language file run at s
69. robat as a previewer before sending your job to a Post Script RIP for outputting on an imagesetter or printer In this case select the Keep the intermediate PostScript PS file after PDF creation option This keeps the PostScript file which is created before the PDF so that you can use it for other processes Selecting the Send the generated PDF file as an email attachment option will cause the active mail application to display a Send mail dialog with the generated PDF already included as an attachment 6 1 2 Document tab General Document Links Bookmarks Comments About Open Options Initial View ERE Magnification Default h Open at Page 1 of 1 v T Allow editing of document information prior to converting each document M Convert document bookmarks into PDF named destinations T Include hidden text The options in the Open Options panel let you configure how you would like Acrobat to display the generated PDF There are various view options magnifica tions and even selection of the document page number All these options can be changed once the PDF is viewed within Acrobat 38 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 6 Microsoft W ord macro W indows Selecting Allow editing of document information prior to converting each document displays the following dialog every time a file is converted to PDF Title Ce Subject O Author keins s SSSSCiS Kepwords CO ceos
70. s known to PDF Creator in the PDF Creator Control Panel If you are using Win dows 95 make sure that you are using the M icrosoft printer driver version 4 0 and not an Adobe driver version 4 1 or 4 2 If you are using Windows N T you may need to add the font to the tables in default startup ps Bitmaps which should be transparent mask the background color Acrobat R eader sometimes has problems displaying large bitmap masks display ing them as opaque images instead Use the Acrobat Reader menu option File gt Preferences gt General to open the General Preferences dialog and unselect the Smooth Text and Images check box 44 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 7 Troubleshooting Invalidaccess error with setdistillerparams The setdistillerparams Operator is the way that PDF settings are controlled from within a PostScript language file PDF Creator supports mostly the same set of parameters that Acrobat Distiller supports although there are some extra parameters for PDF Creator which are used by the PDF Creator Control Panel as well as some Distiller parameters which do not make sense for PDF Creator In particular PDF Creator does not support LZW compression This is only required when producing PDF 1 0 or 1 1 format files which PDF Creator does not support It is not possible to select LZW compression from the PDF Creator Control Panel you only ever see this message if you attempt to distill a PostScript language f
71. s being generated in the PostScript language out put you can produce a small sample document and select Print to file when print ing it This will generate a PostScript language file which you can then inspect using a text editor You can then search for lines that look like sBeginFont My font0432 which signal the start of an embedded font The font name is the name following the colon This becomes the first string in the pair that you are adding to the NTfontnames dictionary The second name in the pair is the PostScript Name field from the TrueType font s name table If you have access to TrueType font editing tools you can extract this name directly O therwise you can see which fonts PDF Creator has found by inspecting thefile _edir_ in the font folder in the PDF Creator installa tion folder This file contains a large dictionary which maps font names to file names you can search down the left hand column with a text editor until you find the name you want The font name must not contain any spaces a font name of M y font is not acceptable If you extracted the name directly from the TrueType font you must replace any spaces with underscore characters to produce My_ font notice that the font names in the _edir_ file have already had this substitution made NTfonttypes is used to handle fonts that have not been recoded as expected In this table each pair in the dictionary consists of one name and one integer The name
72. s case the text builds up into PDF page descriptions It is also possi ble to convert PostScript language files into other page description languages using the same approach The PostScript language compatible aws interpreter allows a number of transfor mations to be carried out in the interpreter pipeline which is how PDF Creator implements features such as TrueType font substitution Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 Appendix A Technical Information A 1 1 Integration with the operating system Windows O ne component of the printing system isa DLL Dynamic Link Library called a port monitor N ormally a port monitor takes the output generated by the printer drivers whether bitmaps for GDI printers Post Script or some other format and is responsible for delivering the data to the printer via a hardware port typically a serial or parallel port or possibly a network interface In PDF Creator the port monitor communicates with a separate process called PDFCreatorSV that contains the entire J aws Post Script language compatible interpreter As far as Windows is concerned the PDF Creator port monitor is an interface to a real PostScript language com patible printer The port monitor advertises itself to the printing system as J awsPDFCreatorPort which appears in the list of available printer ports alongside the more usual ports such as LPT 1 and so on Any output sent to J awsPDFCreatorPort is passed to the PDF
73. s payable by all End User s End Users means the individual or company licensed to use the Software under or in respect of this Licence as set out in the Purchase O rder Intellectual Property means copyright domain names design rights database rights semi conductor topographical rights patents trade marks registered or unregistered service marks registered designs or any applications thereof and all other intellectual or industrial property rights of a similar nature and Intellectual Property Rights means rights in such intellectual property Purchase O rder means the written or electronic order for the Software submitted by the End User Software means the registered version of the JAWS PDF Creator together with any changes modifications adaptations or alterations thereto together with any subsequent versions releases and corrections and any accompanying documentation 2 LICENCE 2 1 In consideration of the payment by the End User of the Total Charges Global Graphics grants to the End User a non exclusive non transferable right to install and use the Software on the terms of this Licence 2 2 The End User s rights and obligations in respect to the use of the Software is as follows The End User may 2 3 install and use the number of copies set out in the Purchase O rder provided always that only one copy of the Software on a single computer subject to both the following conditions being satisfied a End User interaction i
74. s required to operate the Software b there is a one to one 1 1 relationship between the End User and the Software For the avoidance of doubt the End User is responsible for the installation of the Software and installation must be performed in accordance with the terms of the documentation accompanying the Software 2 4 make one copy of the Software for archival purposes provided the archive copy is not installed or used on any computer 2 5 use the Software on a network provided that the End User has a licensed copy of the Software for each computer that can access the Software over the network For the avoidance of doubt the End User must not exceed the total numbers of licensed copies set out in the Purchase O rder 2 6 install an additional copy of the Software on a home or portable computer provided that the End User is the primary user of the computer on which the Software was first installed H owever the Software on the secondary computer may not be used by another person at the same time the Software on the primary computer is being used 2 7 install additional copies of the Software on the same computer where the computer is capable of running more than one operating system a multi boot system provided that only one copy of the Software is available for use at any one time The End User shall not and shall procure that any third party shall not 2 8 copy or make derivative works from the Software except as set out ab
75. s section describes the main features of PDF Creator and how to use them 3 1 Create a PDF file from an application To create a PDF file directly from an application print the document in the normal way being sure to select Jaws PDF Creator as the printer Windows W hen the OK button is clicked in the Print dialog a Create PDF dialog appears allowing you to choose the location and name of the PDF file Clicking Save completes the process Do not select the Print to File option PDF Creator always prints to a PDF file If you select this option you will create a PostScript file instead M acO S When the Print button is clicked in the Print dialog a Save dialog appears allowing you to choose the location and name of the PDF file Clicking Save completes the process Do not select the File option from the Destination menu PDF Creator always prints to a PDF file If you select this option you will create a Post Script file instead 3 2 Convert a PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript file to PDF Jaws PDF Creator can convert PostScript language or EPS Encapsulated Post Script files to PDF When Jaws PDF Creator is installed a desktop icon called Jaws ToPDF is created Windows Drag the PostScript language or EPS file from your Explorer window onto the Jaws ToPDF short cut on your desktop Alternatively right click on the file If it hasa ps eps Or prn extension select Send To gt and then Convert To PDF M acO S Drag the Po
76. se fonts are displayed as PostScript fonts in this dialog and all may be successfully installed for use with PDF Creator Windows The core fonts that are installed with PDF Creator are listed in red and may not be removed M acO S The core fonts that are installed with PDF Creator cannot be removed and are indicated with a lock icon The core font set includes clones of the 35 standard PostScript printer fonts as well as stub files which refer to them For example H elvetica is one of the stan dard fonts but the font file for H elvetica is just a stub that substitutes the clone font H elsinki instead Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 21 Jaws PDF Creator The reasons for wanting to make the fonts visible to PDF Creator differ for the two formats The principal reason for installing Type 1 fonts is if you are using Jaws TOPDF to convert files which do not contain embedded fonts for example if they were cre ated on a different machine If you try to convert such files without making the fonts available to PDF Creator the document is converted with incorrect text met rics By making the fonts you need available to PDF Creator the document is con verted with all the correct fonts and spacing If you add a Type 1 font to PDF Creator because it is used but not embedded in a PostScript language file remember that it is not embedded in the PDF output files unless you also add it to the Always Embed list in the Font
77. stScript or EPS file onto the Jaws ToPDF application Alternatively select the document in the Finder control click to open the contextual menu and select Convert To PDF The location of the PDF file is the same folder as the source The progress of the PDF file creation is indicated by a progress dialog 8 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 3 Getting started with PDF Creator 3 3 Create a PDF file containing bookmarks and links PDF Creator includes an implementation of the PostScript pdfmark operator which is used to create PDF annotations that are compatible with Adobe Acrobat Distiller Some applications such as FrameM aker directly support the genera tion of Acrobat annotations O thers may require the use of special macro pack ages or hand made EPS files In each case any method of generating annotations that works with Distiller also works with PDF Creator The pdfmark operator is documented in Adobe Technical N ote number 5150 which is freely available from their web site 3 4 Create a PDF file using a custom page size If you are generating a PDF file intended mainly for on screen viewing you may want to generate it with an unusual page size so that it fits more neatly onto the screen The PostScript compatible interpreter in PDF Creator can accept any page size specified via the setpagedevice operator M acO S Choose Custom Page Sizes from the LaserWriter 8 Page Setup dialog that appears when you choose P
78. t forth in this Licence The End User agrees not to disclose or make available the Software or any portion or copy thereof or the results of any benchmark tests using the Software to any third party without Global Graphics prior written consent Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 7 TERMINATION 7 1 7 2 Global Graphics may terminate this Licence immediately as notice if you fail to comply with any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement Upon termination the End User shall cease using the Software and shall remove the Software from any personal computer or server and destroy all copies of the Software Termination of this Agreement shall be without prejudice to the other rights and remedies of the either party The provisions of Clauses 4 5 and 6 shall survive the termination of this Agreement as shall any provisions which are expressed or by implication are intended to survive termination of this Agreement 8 GENERAL 8 1 8 2 8 3 8 4 8 5 8 6 8 7 9 1 This Licence shall be governed in all respects by English Law and subject to the non exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts This Licence is personal to the Global Graphics and the End User N either party shall assign novate sub contract or otherwise dispose of all or any part thereof without the previous consent in writing of the other party No variation of this Licence shall be binding upon the parties unless the same shall be in writing
79. t is first generated and subsequently arrange either for the printer to read the resource off disk or for the spooler to insert the resource into the job immediately before sending it to the printer Control over application generated ProcSets is left to the individual applications and may not be possible You can instruct PDF Creator to intercept ProcSet resources in files sent to it and save them to disk for later use This option is not accessible from the PDF Creator Control Panel Instead you must find the following lines in the file prologue ps in PDF Creator s default directory BEES Here s how to turn on Resource Capturing Uncomment the next line Ssystemdict NiknakDict get begin ExtractResources true def end To enable saving of ProcSet resources to disk uncomment the line by removing the s character from the beginning of the line Once the ProcSets have been saved to disk you are able to send jobs with the ProcSet resources omitted to PDF Creator and have them processed properly If PDF Creator detects that a job requires a ProcSet resource that has not been saved to disk it issues a warning message to that effect although the job will probably fail with a PostScript lan guage error PostScript ProcSet resources normally have a version number as well as a name PDF Creator treats ProcSets with the same name but different version numbers as being completely different W hen using this feature you should bear in mi
80. tartup contains compression settings see Section A 2 4 1 Font The folder PDF Creator uses for the 35 resident fonts The data in these files is copyright Stream Technologies Inc and is not licensed for use with any software other than PDF Creator Resource This folder contains all the PostScript resources other than fonts that are known to the interpreter and which may be loaded by the findresource operator 70 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 Index C Compression tab Compress text 31 Compression filters 31 Downsample 31 Resolution 31 Control Panel reference 18 Compression tab 30 Font embedding tab 32 General tab 24 Reporting tab 35 Security tab 34 Settings tab 19 Create a PDF file and launch Acrobat Reader 12 compatible with Acrobat 1 2 and 1 3 11 containing bookmarks and links 9 from an application 8 from an EPS 8 that can be sent by email 11 using a custom page size 9 using compression 11 without prompting for a file name 10 Create Outlook M essage 27 Custom PostScript language files epilogue ps 66 prolog ps 65 startup ps 65 F File names Always output files to 56 Overwrite an existing PDF file 56 Font embedding TrueType fonts 57 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 Issue date January 2002 Type 1 fonts 56 Type 3 fonts 57 Font embedding tab Always embed 32 Embed all fonts except Base 14 fonts 32 Embed Base 14 fonts 33 Never embed 32 Subset fonts 33 Use original TrueType fon
81. th the Schedule to it represents the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes all prior agreements arrangements and understanding between the parties to that subject matter Pursuant to section 1 2 of the Contracts Rights of Third Parties Act 1999 the parties intend that no term of this Licence may be enforced by a person who is not a party to this Licence but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists or is available apart from under that act If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid illegal or unenforceable for any reason by any court of competent jurisdiction such provision shall be severed and the remainder of the provisions hereof shall continue in full force and effect as if this Licence had been executed with the invalid illegal or unenforceable provision eliminated GOVERNMENT SUPPLY This Software is a commercial computer software program developed at private expense and is subject to the following Restricted Rights Legend Use duplication or disclosure by the United States Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in i FAR 52 227 14 Alt III ii FAR 52 227 19 as applicable Use by agencies of the Department of Defence DOD is subject to Global Graphics customary commercial license as contained in the accompanying license agreement in accordance with DFAR 227 7202 1 a For purposes of the FAR the Software shall be deemed unpublished and licensed with disclosur
82. the link to the Jaws web site www jawspd com and go to the Buy page and follow the instructions When you have your serial number you can upgrade your version of Jaws PDF Creator Windows Click the Enter Serial Number option in the About Jaws PDF Creator dialog M acO S O pen the Jaws ToPDF application then select Enter Serial Number from the Apple menu Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 5 Jaws PDF Creator The following dialog will appear Please enter your name the name of the company for To activate Jaws PDF Creator from evaluation mode to a full working copy whom you work and the product serial number please enter your name the name of the company for whom you work and Name AN Other your product serial number u 7 fa N Oth User Name Company My Company Company Name My Company Serial Number Serial Number fo Cancel Help Enter your name company and serial number and select OK The user name must consist of at least two characters The company name is optional Your version of PDF Creator will become licensed and fully functional If required you can amend an existing serial number or even removeit and revert to an evaluation copy possibly required if you want to check out the facilities of a new version N ote Under Windows 2000 a user may not be able to upgrade to a fully opera tional version of Jaws PDF Creator This is because the informat
83. the Microsoft printer driver it defines the capabilities of the PDF Creator printer A 3 2 MacOS installation files Jaws PDF Creator Jaws PDF Creator The default installation folder This folder is created in the top level folder of the volume that contains your active system software unless you choose a different location in the Installer Jaws ToPDF The PostScript language to PDF conversion utility Read Me A SimpleText file containing important user information Make Jaws PDF A small application that creates the PDF Creator Desktop Printer that is Creator necessary for printing from any application Since a Desktop Printer is automatically created by the installer you should not normally need to use this application Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 A 3 Map of installed files Jaws PDF Creator Manual pdf This manual in Acrobat PDF format Scripts folder System Folder Items Contains two scripts one for Eudora and one for O utlook Express For more information see Execute on job completion W indows Launch application on job completion MacOS on page 26 Extensions Folder Components of the Apple LaserW riter driver v8 6 LaserW riter 8 The Apple LaserW riter 8 6 PostScript Printer driver PrintingLib A shared library required by the LaserW riter driver Jaws PDF Creator Resources This folder contains the resources that are required by PDF C
84. the font name appears several times with various locale names in parenthe ses the font supports multiple code pages if it appears only once it sup ports just one An example of the former is Impact an example of the latter is Onyx Some fonts such as Verdana support multiple code pages on Windows NT but only one code page on Windows 95 The Windows 95 printer driver supports code pages in such a way that PDF Creator is still ableto perform TrueType substitution Text in the document from the basic Windows or Western code page is subject to the full substitution process so that recoded text strings are decoded Text from other code pages for example Greek Cyrillic are rendered with the correct TrueType font H owever text from these code pages is not decoded and is not searchable in the PDF file The Windows NT printer driver supports code pages in a different way Only text from the basic Windows code page gets substituted Text from other code pages is printed as bitmapped graphics and is not recognized as text by PDF Creator e Asmentioned above some font files such as Verdana are different on Windows 95 and NT Since the recoded text in a PDF file is based on the glyph index within the font file it is important not to mix up different ver sions of the same font Jaws TOPDF does not disable TrueType substitution so if you use it to convert a document using a bitmap or outline font that can be substituted with a
85. to the application window You can also convert files by using the File gt Open option which displays a file browser allowing selec tion of the files to be converted PostScript To PDF Converter x File Settings Help Files processed p Files left fi Input File K acrobat_out S w_LE bk ps Output File K acrobat_out S w_LE bkO pdf Progress ERE RERRERRRRRERRER When you have converted all the files you want click Done to exit the application While drag and drop from Explorer works with both the desktop short cut and the application window drag and drop from the File M anager only works with the Jaws ToPDF application window 4 3 Jaws ToPDF application MacOS Under the M acintosh operating system dropping a file on the application icon choosing Open from the File menu and dropping a file on the open application window all result in the file being converted to PDF O gt Jaws PostScript to PDF Converter Items remaining to be processed an Stop Pause Input File Output File D View Waiting Jobs Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 15 Jaws PDF Creator 16 When a file is being converted its progress is indicated O Jaws PostScript to PDF Converter Items remaining to be processed Input File 1929 WC_4C c ps Output File 1929 WC_4C c pdf D View Waiting Jobs N ote If the destination file name already exists in this location and the Overwrite
86. ts Windows only 33 G General tab Advanced button 28 ASCII format 25 Auto rotate pages 25 options 26 PDF file format 24 Resolution 25 Thumbnail generation 24 H How Jaws PDF Creator works 51 l Introduction 1 JawsToPDF Configuration 16 drag and drop 14 Jaws ToPDF Configuration Always output files to 17 Always prompt for a destination 17 71 Do not prompt for a destination 17 L LZW Decode 45 LZW Encode 45 M M ap of installed files General files used by all operating systems 69 M acOS installation files 68 Windows installation files 67 M icrosoft Word macro 37 settings 37 About tab 42 Bookmarks tab 40 Comments tab 41 Document tab 38 General tab 37 Linkstab 39 P PDF Creator Advanced topics 54 Custom PostScript language files 65 File names 54 Font embedding 56 PostScript ProcSet Resources 64 Control Panel reference 52 Compression tab 30 Font embedding tab 32 General tab 24 Reporting tab 35 Security tab 34 Settings tab 19 Integration with the Windows system 52 MacOS integration 52 R Reporting tab Create individual log files for each job 36 Discard messages 36 Display messages 36 Log all messages to 36 Only log errors 36 S Searchable Textin a PDF 62 Security tab Do not permit users to 35 Encrypt PDF files 34 Passwords 34 Serial number 5 setdistillerparams 45 Settings tab About PDF Creator 22 Font management button 21 System Requirements 3 T Troubleshooting 43 TrueType f
87. ucing PDF files for print and disable it when producing PDF files for on screen viewing Preserve overprint With this option selected any changes to the PostScript graphics state overprint parameter requested by the job are passed though to the PDF file This feature along with Preserve O PI comments Transfer functions and Under Color Removal and Black Generation Information is intended primarily for use within a pre press environment Preserve under color removal and black generation information This option allows you to preserve or remove under color removal and black gen eration information from the PostScript language file This is normally only used in pre press environments Use BoundingBox for As well as the conventional page size request embedded in the PostScript language file many files also contain comments describing the actual extent of marks on the page The Use BoundingBox for option lets you ignore these comments by selecting Nothing use the bounding box for the PDF page size by selecting Page Size or use the bounding box for the optional page cropping box by select ing Crop box Acrobat Reader always displays pages as if they were the size specified for the page cropping box Some applications may generate their own cropping box information using pdfmark which overrides any cropping box set in this way Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 29 Jaws PDF Creator Preserve OPI comments O
88. urther reduce the size Image compression Zip compression is usually the best overall compromise setting as it is efficient and lossless JPEG compression If you can tolerate lossy compression that is compression that throws some of the data away never to be retrieved you can use PEG compression Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 11 Jaws PDF Creator Zip with Predictor You may find that Predictor compression sometimes improves the performance on images where there are lots of similarly colored pixels N ote The terms Zip and Flate are interchangeable they both refer to the same kind of compression Advanced users can also tailor the parameters used by JPEG compression Windows These are in the file default startup ps in the PDF Creator folder M acO S These arein the file default startup ps in the aws PDF Creator R esources folder in your Extensions folder 3 10 Launch Acrobat Reader to view the file when complete Jaws PDF Creator can automatically launch any application on successful com pletion of a job For details on how to set this option see Section 5 2 6 3 11 Change the author name in the PDF file The author name is the name that appears in Acrobat Reader if you select File gt Document Info gt General The author name that PDF Creator places in the Info dictionary of a PDF file is a combination of the current user name and the com puter name If the computer is not on a network PD
89. warranty set out in this Clause 3 1 and the entire and exclusive liability and remedy set out in Clause 3 2 states the sole and exclusive obligation of Global Graphics to the End User and sets out the entire remedies which Global Graphics and or its licensors have to the End User for breach of this warranty LIMITATION OF LIABILITY 4 1 4 2 43 4 4 4 5 N either party excludes or limits liability to the other party for death or personal injury caused by negligence or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation nor where liability cannot be excluded or limited as a matter of law e g breach of any obligations implied by Section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 as amended or Section 2 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 Subject to the provision of Clause 3 1 and 4 1 all representations warranties conditions whether implied by statute or otherwise are excluded from this Licence In the case of representations warranties conditions implied by statute these are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law In particular Global Graphics and its licensors are not aware of the purposes for which the End User is to use the Software make no warranties express or implied as to the Software s fitness for any particular purpose The End Users attention is also drawn to the following and subject always to the provisions of Clauses 3 1 and 4 1 Global Graphics and its licensors 4 3 1 do not and cannot warrant that the Software is
90. wise PDF Cre ator will attempt to determine the orientation of the majority of the text on the page and rotate the page until this text is upright PDF Creator does this by look ing at the text baseline and making it travel from left to right so it gets the result wrong if most or all of the text on the page is mirrored For more information on rotation see Rotation and applications and drivers that do not generate ViewingO rientation in the Troubleshooting section 5 2 6 Output options These options control what to do with the PDF when it has been created Always output files to If this box is checked PDF Creator does not prompt you for a destination file name but outputs all PDF files to the specified destination folder The filenameis composed of the document name with a numerical suffix if necessary to avoid duplicate file names This feature is mainly of use when using PDF Creator to generate all files in a single location In this case you should also make sure that you do not have Display M essages enabled in the Reporting tab described in Section 5 6 1 Note The numeric suffix generation can be defeated using the Overwrite an existing PDF file option See later in this section for more information Windows Select the option then either enter the full path or use the Browse option to select the required folder M acO S When you select this option a Select Folder dialog box appears allowing you choose the require
91. ws the printing application is suspended waiting for you to select a destination During this time it can t respond to repaint messages from Windows This is harmless Acrobat Reader displays text as bullets This is normally a problem with Acrobat incorrectly calculating the size of text displayed when using an embedded TrueType font In Acrobat R eader s File gt Preferences gt General dialog deselect the box labelled Greek text below pixels Acrobat Reader does not display some text There are some undocumented restrictions on the commands which Acrobat Reader accepts in embedded CFF fonts PDF Creator uses the CFF format for all embedded Type 1 fonts you can find out the type of fonts used in your documents using the menu option File gt Document Info gt Fonts dialog in Acrobat R eader Where the PDF file produced by PDF Creator contains such unsupported com mands Acrobat Reader displays some characters in the font concerned as blanks Please submit a bug report if you find such a font Acrobat Reader v3 displays PDF with missing c and K characters There is a problem with Acrobat R eader for Windows that occasionally results in the characters c and K being omitted from the display This happens if the PostScript file is generated by the M icrosoft printer driver This is not a bug with PDF Creator The workaround is to upgrade the version of Acrobat from v3 to v4 or later Acrobat Reader displa
92. wspdf com 2 2 Installation MacOS To install PDF Creator on M acOS 1 Temporarily disable any virus detection software or non essential extensions or Control Panels 2 Doubleclick the installer application that appears on your desktop when you insert the CD ROM into the drive 3 Follow the on screen instructions to install Jaws PDF Creator 4 Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 2 Installing and uninstalling PD F Creator 2 3 Serial number If you havea serial number for your version of Jaws PDF Creator you can useit at installation time This will immediately give you a licensed and fully featured ver sion of the application If however you wish to evaluate the product you can install it without a serial number Windows Enter the word EVALUATION in place of the serial number MacOS Click the Evaluation button This will provide you with a working copy of the application In this case all PDFs generated by the application will contain a watermark on every page 2 4 Upgrade from evaluation to a fully working version When you have evaluated Jaws PDF Creator you may wish to upgrade to a fully working version Windows Go to the Settings tab of the Configure Jaws PDF Creator Control Panel and click the About Jaws PDF Creator button M acO S O pen the Jaws ToPDF application then select About Jaws PDF Creator from the Apple menu The About dialog will appear If you do not havea valid serial number select
93. ys an unable to extract font message This is a TrueType font that has been downloaded as outlines using the Adobe PostScript driver Select the Font Embedding tab of the PDF Creator Control Panel and select Use original TrueType fonts f this does not help you need to Jaws PDF Creator 2 1 issue date January 2002 43 Jaws PDF Creator click the Font management button of the Settings tab and click the Select Folder button to find the TrueType font Add it to the PDF Creator list of fonts and try again Text in some fonts is garbled Only applicable to Windows PDF Creator is probably reencoding a TrueType font which it should not be or not reencoding a font which it should be You can control this by editing the font tables in default startup ps in the PDF Creator folder T hese are described in Section A 2 4 1 Alternatively you may be using Jaws ToPDF to convert a file with TrueType sub stitution enabled which originated on a different operating system Text which should be outlined is displayed as solid This appears to be a problem with the way Acrobat Reader displays certain Type 3 fonts The document prints to a PostScript language compatible printer correctly Text appears jagged This means that a TrueType font downloaded by the printer driver as a bitmap or an outline font has not been substituted back into the PDF file by PDF Creator Check that you have enabled TrueType substitution and that the original font i

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