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Ceil
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 Posted - 03/19/2012 : 9:03:54 PM
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So I finished just today a monograph (about music) that I thought would be an e-book. I guess I don't really know what an e-book is, because I found out about EPUB, and am still trying to figure it out.
Having said this:
What I wanted to do was send a .pdf of this monograph, to someone who had purchased it, in such a way that all the fonts I'd used would be retained so that the text wouldn't gain type lines on that person's end. I thought there was a way to do this, sending only the characters that use each font in Adobe Acrobat, or even InDesign 5.0. I don't want to set it up for iPad or Kindle, etc., I just want to retain the page size as set. You pattern people seem to do this all the time, so what is your final formatting before you put it up for sale electronically? (I hope I've made this clear enough.)
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Ceil
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MMario
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Posted - 03/20/2012 : 06:12:26 AM
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The conversion programs I use have settings that can:
a) embed the fonts used in the document so that it doesn't matter if the recipient has them or not
b) prevents editing (without a password)
The latter normally also prevents added lines, etc.
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Ceil
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Posted - 03/20/2012 : 09:11:22 AM
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What conversion programs are you using? And where do you find those settings? I know I've seen the "embed" thing somewhere, but I can't find it.
Ceil
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Ceil
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Posted - 03/20/2012 : 7:57:48 PM
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OK, I found everything in Adobe InDesign. What I don't understand is why there is even a .pdf choice in the Print dialog box, when all the settings are under File\Export....
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Ceil
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mertle
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Posted - 03/21/2012 : 03:34:51 AM
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I send (and receive) PDFs quite often by simply attaching them to email. Everything stays the same (fonts, photos, tables, etc.) and can't be changed easily. They are created from the Print dialog box. *I use free Adobe Acrobat "pdfcreator" a free program from www.pdfforge.org.
Is this what you mean?
*Edited to show the program I actually have.
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yarnlover
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Posted - 03/21/2012 : 06:58:06 AM
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Mertle,
I had an old version of Adobe Acrobat, that was not free. Can't use it on my current system and didn't bother to check on an upgrade. So, now I'm wondering about a free version?
I use Open Office, which is free, and which does allow export of files as pdf, and that makes me think that Adobe has made their product more available at lower or no cost. I guess I'll take a look at their website. Thanks for the tip.
EDIT: Checked the Adobe site and Acrobat is not free. You probably were thinking of Adobe Reader, which is free.
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mertle
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Posted - 03/21/2012 : 12:32:38 PM
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Originally posted by yarnlover
Checked the Adobe site and Acrobat is not free. You probably were thinking of Adobe Reader, which is free.
You're right! I was confused, so I called my husband to find out exactly what we do use. We have pdfcreator, which is a free program found at www.pdfforge.org. It works on Windows formats and, of course, can be read with Adobe Reader.
I apologize for the confusion. Thank you for letting me know. I've put a change in my original post.
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