Where can I turn off print text as curves?

[Anis]

Hello People,

Is it possible top turn off "print text as curves" during the pdf creating process ?

Right now I create a PDF with the X-Change Viewer > Print > Printer> PDF X-Change 4
I'm going this way, to arrange the pages like this
1;1;2;2;3;3;4;4;5;5;6;6;7;7;8;8;9;9;10;10;

After I have this PDF created the text is becomes to curves and the PDF File becomes so big from 17 mb to 117 mb.

Is it possible to avoid this size? And to have the text still as text ?

I thank for your attention and patience.
And hoping for feedback

Regards

Anis

[Chris - PDF-XChange]

Anis,

The Print text as curves options is found, when you click File->Print at the bottom of the dialog there is an "Advanced" button, click that and your print text as curves option is at the top.

If you require further asistance, please do get back to us.

Chris

[Anis]

Hello Chris,
thank you for this useful tip.

I checked this option but there is just the choice between three:
Print Text as curves
1. for embedded fonts
2. auto
3. allways

But no way to make sure the text will not be converted into curves.
(Even when I choice just emedded Fonts and creat a PDF without any embedded fonts still all the text will be printed as curves.)
I need the text to be still available after "printing" into a PDF.

PDF-X Change is a great program and I like it a lot it would be just one further enrichment if this task could be completed

Regards
Anis

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Why would you need to "print" the PDF when you could just save it as it is - it's already a PDF document - why the need to reprint it to PDF?

Other than that the settings are oriented to printing to a physical printer - you already have it in an electronic portable document format.

Cheers,
Stefan

[Anis]

Thanks Stefan for the answer.
I was a long time on traveling and right now I'm preparing the next print adventure.

Take a look on the this

I need to bring the normal PDF in a doubel order

1;1;2;2;3;3;4;4;5;5;6;6;7;7;8;8;9;9;10;10;

The goal is to have a clone of the site on the same paper.
So that after printing it for real I just need to cut the document in the middle so that I have two complet printed documents.

I anybody can help it would be great.

Best regards
Anis

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

While it's not exactly a 'feature' you could try setting 2 pages in the print dialogue and typing the page numbers like this:



it would be quite cumbersome if you have many pages like this example, you'd need to type 187 pages each twice...

[Anis]

Yes I did this with the help of the Indesign Grep function within 2 minutes (what a help!)

but now happens excatly that reason that I created this thread for.

Through the "digital" printing process the hole document tranforms text in to curves
It becomes a 120 MB size.
I need to avoid this and keep the document size as small as possible without quality lose.

I try to make a digital print and avoid to transform the text in to curves.
Manly to keep a small file size, cause during printing on 5 real printers simultanoues
This printing comand becomes throught spooling x5 times the size of 2 GB wich is actualy very hard to handle for my computer

Can you imagine what I mean?
Do you have a hint how to avoid big file size and realize the goal of a document with cloned double pages?

Cheers,
Anis

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hey Anis,

Without the need to reprint a PDF file so you have duplicating content in it, or having to manipulate your original file, the only thing I can think of is probably the Booklet type of printing, and then choosing a brochure subtype. In this case on side A of the first sheet you will have pages 1st and last(n), then on side B you will have pages 2 and (n-1). If you print all pages and then cut them in the middle all you will need to do is rotate the second half and place it after the last page on the fist half and you will have them perfectly ordered, no need to mess with the files, just print it twice like this.

Also note that what you are trying to do here is boardering on "Prepress" page positioning and ordering and our Viewer was never designed to be this kind of tool so some of the functionality you require might not be available. To achieve your end result you might need to work with the files and prepare them in some other way.

Best,
Stefan

[Anis]

Thank you Stefan.

Even if PDFX was never design for this, I find it very useful and powerfull! And it did what the other programms didn't!

Thanks for this product and the support.

Keep on!
Best regards
Anis

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

The pleasure is ours Anis!

Kind Regards,
Stefan