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glendab60510864
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November 22, 2016
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How to change ending?

  • November 22, 2016
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My program automatically adds .PDF to my endings and the SEC requires .pdf as an ending.  How can I change the capital letters to small letters?

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Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
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November 23, 2016

You refer to “my program” in terms of adding .PDF instead of .pdf to the name of the generated PDF file. What is exactly that “program?” As far as I can tell, all of the Adobe PDF creation tools put the .pdf suffix on any PDF files for which the user has not explicitly specified either .pdf or .PDF.

Please advise as to what is creating the PDF and on which platform.

Also, it would be interesting to have a reference to what SEC directive gets so specific as to require .pdf and rejects .PDF since this aspect of file suffix handling is generally case independent on both Windows and MacOS.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
glendab60510864
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November 23, 2016

The "program" is Adobe Acrobat X Pro.  Anyway, when the document is scanned as a pdf, it always does .PDF in caps.  Today, I ended up going to another office for a friend to turn my one-page document into a pdf with .pdf in lower case.  

I was changing my passphrase using EDGAR for an SEC filing.  When I tried to upload the doc from my Adobe, it was automatically all caps and was rejected multiple times.  Finally, the pdf sent to me by my friend with lower case .pdf, was accepted. I agree with you that it should not make any difference to the recipient as the document always opens with no problems just as if the upper case PDF was lower case pdf.

My question was to find out if there was any way to change the automated upper case PDF to automatically produce lower case pdf.

Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
Legend
November 23, 2016

Are you scanning from inside Acrobat or is your scanner directly producing PDF?

At least in Acrobat DC Pro (Windows), using the scan function and subsequently saving the file yields lower case .pdf (even though the file name initially on the top bar of the window says Untitled.PDF. Acrobat doesn't automatically save the scanned document but requires you to “save as” where the .pdf is put as the suffix. (Since I don't have Acrobat 10, can't tell whether this was an issue with that version or not!)

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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