Adobe Acrobat 5 and PDF 1.4

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Adobe Acrobat 5 and PDF 1.4

• Carl Young
• DigiPub Solutions Corp.
• Phoenix, Arizona, USA
• www.pdfconference.com

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Where we are

• PDF used in two ways
• Electronic documents
• Traditional printing workflows that are being
  converted to PDF

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Conflicting goals

• Electronic documents
• Lots of interactivity
• Forms
• Database connectivity
• Text reflow for handheld screens
• Information reuse
• Security, digital signatures

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Conflicting goals continued

• Traditional publishing
• Document stability
• High fidelity. Should look exactly like the
  original
• Dont want the file to be interactive
• Color model highly important
• Must integrate into existing workflows

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Acrobat 5 and PDF 1.4 delivers something for both
audiences

• Interactive PDF
• Logical structure for reflow and repurposing
• Better security
• Form data exported as XML
• Web-based collaboration
• Better accessibility for visually impaired
• ODBC support

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Acrobat 5 and PDF 1.4 delivers something for both
audiences

• Traditional printing
• Transparency
• PDF-X (although not part of PDF 1.4)
• Soft proofing
• Same color model across Adobe applications
• Preview overprinting

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Demonstration