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MikeBrog
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October 15, 2013
Question

Distiller epilogue/prologue files

  • October 15, 2013
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This may not be the place to ask this, but I've had no luck in the Acrobat forum.

When using Distiller, normally a PDF will be generated at the dimensions set in the joboptions file under default page size.

My understanding is that if you go to the advanced section in the joboptions file and turn on Process DCS Comments, then check Resize Page and Center Artwork for EPS files, the PDF that is generated should be at the size of the original documents and not the default page size set in the joboptions file.

Unfortunately, this is not what I'm seeing.  Every PDF generated is set to the default page size.

Is there a way to control this via the epilogue or prologue files?

Thanks.

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Test Screen Name
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October 18, 2013

Perhaps they are not valid EPS files. Open a small one in NotePad and copy/paste all of the intial header lines (the lines from %! through all the following lines starting %, stopping when the first line with no % at the start appears.)

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MikeBrogAuthor
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October 18, 2013

%!PS-Adobe-3.1 EPSF-3.0

%ADO_DSC_Encoding: Windows Roman

%%Title: Untitled-1

%%Creator: Adobe InDesign CS5.5 (7.5)

%%For: mbrogdon

%%CreationDate: 10/18/2013, 1:50 PM

%%BoundingBox: 0 0 288 648

%%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 288 648

%%CropBox: 0 0 288 648

%%LanguageLevel: 2

%%DocumentNeededResources: (atend)

%%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)

%%DocumentNeededFeatures: (atend)

%%DocumentSuppliedFeatures: (atend)

%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit

%%Pages: (atend)

%%DocumentProcessColors: (atend)

%%DocumentCustomColors: (atend)

%ADOBeginClientInjection: DocumentHeader "InDesignDefaultInsertProc"

%ADO_ContainsXMP NoMain

%ADOEndClientInjection: DocumentHeader "InDesignDefaultInsertProc"

%%EndComments

%%BeginDefaults

%%ViewingOrientation: 1 0 0 1

%%EndDefaults

%%BeginProlog

%%BeginResource: procset Adobe_AGM_Utils 1.0 0

%%Version: 1.0 0

%%Copyright: Copyright(C)2000-2006 Adobe Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Test Screen Name
Legend
October 18, 2013

This shows a file of 288 points by 648 points (4 x 9 inches).

I made it back into a valid EPS by taking the first lines and adding some, to get

%!PS-Adobe-3.1 EPSF-3.0

%ADO_DSC_Encoding: Windows Roman

%%Title: Untitled-1

%%Creator: Adobe InDesign CS5.5 (7.5)

%%For: mbrogdon

%%CreationDate: 10/18/2013, 1:50 PM

%%BoundingBox: 0 0 288 648

%%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 288 648

%%CropBox: 0 0 288 648

%%BeginProlog

%%EndProlog

%%Page: 1 1

clippath 1 0 0 setrgbcolor fill showpage

This was processed into a 4 x 9 inch PDF, but any error in the %% comments led to the EPS stuff being ignored. Turn on the option "Log DSC warnings" and see if it reports anything.

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