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Adobe Reader with CutePDF Pro - Print Problems

I use CutePDF Pro (Acro Software), and like the program. I can add signatures - highlighting etc. to a pdf using CutePDF Pro, and have done so for years. Now, when I add a signature or highlighting, etc., and print, the addendums - enhancement added do not print.

This has not been a problem in the past with all adds printing. CutePDF Pro has said that Adobe Reader upgrades have caused the problem, but I do not know where to start in solving the problem.


jnbluther


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Understanding that this is the Adobe hosted user community "Acrobat Answers" I'm sure you'll understand that this is not the site for conversations about issues with non-Adobe products.


Your best bet is to continue to poke at the software house that provides CutePDF.



Be well...


By David Austin   

CutePDF is not an Adobe product, so you should get try to talk to them to see how you can print these elements.

However, chances are that you need to select "Document&Markup" on Reader's print dialog, in order to get these features that you've added in CutePDF.

Karl Heinz Kremer
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Karl Heinz Kremer   

@jnbluther

Sounds harsh but with PDF creation/modifing/consumption software you get what you pay for. "Day job" provides CutePDF - I've used it enough to appreciate just how much better Acrobat is. I work with PDF daily. The "problem" PDFs *always* are those made by non-Adobe processes. These "problem" PDFs have to be fixed. Most times it can get it done soley because I have Acrobat Pro. Aside from lost production time there are the wasted "life minutes".


Just my natter - but (imo) for a software house to insinuate/state that updates rolled out for a first string application are some how a problem does not speak well of that house.
(what we called a 400 cycle whine back in the day on another ride).
The answer is for the software house to "update their product".

PDF is an ISO Standard. The only reason one house's PDF cannot be in harmony with use by Adobe Reader / Acrobat (which "do" ISO 32000 rather well) might be a less than serious commitment to producing ISO 32000-1 (and down the time line 32000-2) compliant PDF.


Being curious I've used several non-Adobe products to produce/work on PDFs.
That's why I budget for and use Acrobat Pro for all my personal and professional needs.


Be well...


David Austin   

If you want to know the gory details of CutePDF is that it's not even a PDF producer. It's a PostScript driver (a.k.a. a PPD) That's it. What makes the PDF is actually a copy of GhostScript running in the background.

The PostScript that Cute creates is reasonably decient - even out of Office tools. The PDF that GS creates (v9 and newer!) is reasonably decient. And the PDF that's created out of the Cute+GS combo is reasonably decient.

In other words - it operates exactly the same as the Adobe PDF printer + Acrobat Distiller dynamic duo. But they aren't the same! There are some significant quality differences.

But all it does is create PDF - there are no other features/capabilities available. So, if you are looking for a free tool to create PDFs (church, Scouts, etc.) and that's it, the package will do the job. If you are looking to do anything beyond that - go pick up at least Standard.

Aside - Because of how Cute creates PDF it tends to create better PDF than straight GDI based printers such as the Adobe PDFWriter and similar tools.

Ya get what ya pay for.

Doug


Douglas Hanna   

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