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General Category => Tips and Tutorials => Topic started by: Ron D. on January 02, 2015, 01:14:59 AM

Title: One-time setup to PDF settings for paper size and transparency
Post by: Ron D. on January 02, 2015, 01:14:59 AM

This information is in the User's Manual, but it doesn't hurt to include it here on the forum. There is a one-time setup required in Adobe Distiller to match paper size with the PDF export setting in Sliver and to enable transparency when exporting plots to a PDF.

Open Adobe Distiller and choose an option for Default Settings (choose Press Quality or High Quality Print for best results). Then select the menu option Settings-->Edit Adobe PDF Settings. In the main window, change the Default Paper Size to match the paper size selected in the Sliver Postscript/PDF Export Settings (in Landscape mode). For example, for the “8.5x11 letter” export setting in Sliver, the Width would be set to 11.0 and the Height to 8.5 with Units of “Inches.”

Click on the “Save As…” button, give your options file a new name and remember the folder where Distiller will save it, and then click Save.

Then go to that folder, open the new options file you just named, find the line with the phrase “AllowTransparency” near the top of the file, and change the value from “false” to “true” and save the file.

This is the settings file that should always be the default selected in Distiller. Once a PDF is created with transparency, it will always be shown with transparency to everyone without any settings changes.

Ron