[sac-board] Re: Newsletter issues

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:40:15 -0500, Tejera, Rick wrote:

> OK, where to start. It seems many of you are getting and error message in
> acrobat when trying to open the newsletter file. Something to the effect of
> damaged file can't repair. I don't know how many have gotten the same
> message from both mailings but I suspect it's about the same. In this vain
> I'd actually like to hear from those of you who have received it OK, Maybe
> there is a link between ISP's causing the difficulty. 

I suspect this has something to do with AOL v7 that you're using.  I have
noted that the MIME encoding used to encode th 8bit text into a 7bit SMTP
connection is irregular.  99% of the lines appear the same length with 1%
randomly being too short or too long.  I understand you're going to
attempt to send the newsletter from work to avoid AOL 7.  If you don't get
this done tonight, please put the PDF file in a ZIP file and send it to
me.  I can then have ZIP check the file's integrity and determine whether
or not AOL 7 is the culprit.

> On another note, a few folks have mentioned that the newsletter looks OK on
> the screen but comes out of the printer  kind of funky. I believe this to be
> due to font substitution. If you don't have the same fonts the newsletter
> was crated with, it will try to substitute the closest thing it has, not
> always with good results. I had sent the fonts out with the August issue, if
> you installed them it should cure the problem, If not, I am going to ask Bob
> Erdman to post them on the web site to be available for download. This'll be
> easier on me than sending them individually to everyone who needs them. 

I'm assuming you're talking about the fonts being funky rather than the
images.  You should be using only TrueType or Postscript fonts and having
Acrobat include the fonts in the PDF file.  I'm hoping Acrobat includes
all of the font info to allow it to be scale to different dot resolutions.
 Remember there's a huge difference between 75 DPI of the screen and 300+
DPI which printers use.

With regard to images they can and usually do look funky if one prints out
images intended for the screen.  With cheap printers now capable of 1200+
DPI a 3"x3" image would take 38.8 MB!  Even at 300 DPI the 3"x3" image is
2.4 MB (this is for color, for B/W you can divide by 3) and 300 DPI is the
bare minimum resolution for good printing. Your PDF files with color
images are way too small for printable images.

        -Paul

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