Correction to banyoo's post: For Adobe Reader the registry key is at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0\AVGeneral For Acrobat, it's at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\10.0\AVGeneral You may also find a key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat\10.0\AVGeneral but that's only there for legacy purposes, and placing the iDuplexMode value in there will have no effect. ... View more

I wonder if it's working but you're not seeing what you expect: Unlike Photoshop (and After Effects), Premiere doesn't show a transparency grid on the monitors. If you place a track with an alpha channel onto a timeline and there's nothing else below it to see through the pixels, the transparent areas will show as black. You can switch to alpha channel mode (right-click the monitor) but then you only see the mask. Same in the preview thumbnail above the project bins - alpha = black. ... View more

It's a generic error so it can be fired by a mountain of possible things. Precisely what were you doing at the moment the error message appeared? Opening a project, importing media, working on the timeline, rendering, adding an effect... ? ... View more

As of 10.1.2 we no longer talk about "auto-rotate and center". Page scaling for 1-up output is always registered to the center point, and the new dialog only refers to orientation. Ultimately of you want a page to be printed at 100% physical scale, you need to supply users with a PDF that has the correct paper size and margins wide enough to stay within their printer working zones. In that case, the setting for scale and rotate is meaningless, as "fit", "shrink" and "actual" will all equal 100%. If the paper size matches, rotating a page has no bearing on the X/Y position - it's there to handle cases where the document is portrait but the printer tray is landscape, or vice-versa. If for example you open a US Letter portrait page and "force" it to print in landscape to a printer with a portrait feed tray, it is not rotated and squished into the middle of the page - aside from coming out the machine sideways it'll look no different. ... View more

This is a question relating to installation of CS5.5 rather than the standalone Acrobat product, so I'm moving the thread to the correct topic. ... View more

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Adobe Media Encoder (AME) does not support automated distributed rendering, so neither does Premiere Pro. However, After Effects uses its own encoding engine and will happily do network rendering to still image sequences - see the AE help file for more info. If you're working in Premiere with silent footage that has very complex effects, because AME can export to still images it is possible to manually set up a farmed render on a PP sequence; by copying the entire project to each workstation and setting different frame ranges for each one to export. You'd then bring all the image files back to a single workstation for encoding to video, but you're only saving time on the effects so the sequence has to be monumental for it to be worth the time and effort to set up each job. In contrast, After Effects' effects can take a very long time to render and are always applied frame-by-frame, which is why it can support distribution. A single seat of AME with access to decent hardware (including CUDA GPUs) can convert those stills to a video file extremely quickly. Distributed rendering  of video isn't a widely-used concept, as the compression processes  don't like frames arriving out of sync. There are a few solutions which can farm the video  encoding step, such as Promedia Carbon, but they're strictly the domain of studios (you're looking at tens of thousands of dollars in licenses, even for a small network). They're used for transcoding rather than rendering (e.g. converting tape library footage for the Web, telecine and pulldown). ... View more

You'll see the various formats for Microsoft Office files on Acrobat's "Create PDF - from file" chooser only if you have those applications installed and the plugin's enabled. Conversion involves Acrobat opening a copy of the document in Word, then triggering the plugin to export the PDF file. ... View more

Acrobat 9 (and LiveCycle Designer 8.2) is not compliant with Windows 7 x64, so the error is to be expected. LiveCycle Designer ES2 bundled with Acrobat X works fine on Windows x64. On 64-bit operating systems where two versions of the Microsoft Common Controls interface exist, when a program asks for the "wildcard" version (using an asterisk in the loading manifest), Windows will return with the 64-bit version (you can see this in your error report as the reference starting "amd64"). As a 32-bit application the codebase for Acrobat 9 was not written to expect this return value, so when it subsequently loads the 32-bit version (beginning "x86") and they don't match, it throws an error. This doesn't mean the application itself won't load and run, just that it's been given something it doesn't understand. It is possible to get rid of the event log errors by recompiling the executable, but that's not something an end user is permitted to do. ... View more

Correct - you don't qualify for upgrade pricing on the standalone version (called a "point product") if your previous version came from a Creative Suite collection. CS collections only upgrade as collections, which is one of the many reasons why they're cheaper than the same mix of point products would be. I suggest you contact Customer Support directly and see what your options are. ... View more

The PDF file itself does not control the "print as image" preference, which should always be turned OFF unless there's a specific need to rasterize the entire page, and is turned off by default in all Acrobat and Adobe Reader installations. What's the filetype for the ultralight font and what export setting* are you using in ID? If you're exporting to earlier than PDF1.7, OpenType fonts will be converted and may experience some small changes in shape if their hint definitions aren't done right. *As a side note, bear in mind that InDesign does not use any part of Acrobat when exporting PDFs, so questions specific to that stage in the process should be posted to the InDesign forums. ... View more

If it's blue, it will be the box indicating the file is being displayed in PDF/A vew mode. To temporarily hide the box for all documents, go to Preferences > Documents and set PDF/A view mode to "never" - but you should set it back again after you've finished working with the document. To remove the PDF/A header information from this particular file, you should run the Acrobat Preflight fixup of that name. There's an Acrobat X Action at AcrobatUsers to automate it. Pintoffrog wrote: I need to get the blue read-only box on the top of the file removed. acrobat X ... View more

William Vimes' solution is far from recommended, as it removes the document structure - which prevents accessibility and reflow. Unfortunately there is no simple way to mark the H/F contents exported from Word as anything other than a H/F - it's hard-wired into the Office plugin. You could do it with a custom plugin for Acrobat, but not with something simple like a script. Some background for those wondering what's happening under the hood Headers and footers created in Acrobat live in special "pagination artifact OCGs" - a layer within the PDF file that can be easily-managed, for example you can set it to show only on printouts, and can update it with the Acrobat toolset, but which doesn't show on the Layers panel. When exporting from Word, the H/F data is not placed into an OCG, instead it's tagged as "artifact" page content with a pagination subtype - which means it's not on a layer, but it's ignored by things like screenreaders. Acrobat looks for anything matching the pagination subtype "Header" or "Footer" when checking if H/Fs already exist, so it will see the ones from Word. However it can't edit them as they're not the OCG-based type of H/F that Acrobat creates, which is why trying to "update" causes them to be deleted. If you want to point the finger I'd say it was an oversight in the Office plugin. Whenever you're likely to be combining files and changing H/F contents after the fact, realistically you need to forget about bringing them across from Word, and add the H/Fs directly into the PDF in Acrobat - that way they remain editable. Yes there are some limitations (you can't put images in Acrobat H/Fs) but you can get round that easily-enough by using backgrounds and layers. ... View more

@George: RDC is not intended to be used in this way, and it depends on the content of the PDF as to what happens on printouts when RDC is active. @cactus8599: If you've exported your PDF from Powerpoint using the Acrobat plugin and the default settings (rather than printing it) then you should have a "Background" layer in the PDF which will contain all the slide design elements (the background, etc.) - you can simply turn that off, and print the file. It's there for that precise reason, but very few people bother to look at the layers panel. ... View more

Read my post here - it's an issue with Unicode table corruption when the PDF was created. Nothing you can do about it other than contact the website owner and tell them. ... View more

It's in the same place - open the Page Thumbnails panel on the left of the screen, click the options icon under the word "Page", and it's halfway down the list. ... View more

No. Read my post. ... View more

As I said, the font mapping is corrupted. Your file contains 122 fonts, but not all are broken. Some text copies OK, some does not - and the text which does not copy cannot be searched. Try searching for "extractos" and it will ignore the title on page 1 (using a corrupted font) but will find it on page 9 (using an intact font). @Larry - "custom" encoding is perfectly OK, provided the mapping table is present. ... View more

It's a  "problem" that often happens accidentally, but is also used intentionally to prevent copying and indexing of PDF files, especially when posted online. Fonts in PDF files are stored with two tables, one contains the glyphs (the character shapes) and one contains a "toUnicode" map, which says what character each glyph represents. Acrobat uses the first table to draw the page, so it doesn't actually know what the text "says", only which patterns of shapes to draw. When you copy or search the file, the second lookup table is used to work out what the text says (i.e. in the word APPLE the first table says the second shape looks like "P" even if the shapes aren't stored in alphabetical order, the toUnicode table says the second letter is 0x0050, a capital P). If this toUnicode map is corrupted or missing, the PDF will render to screen (and print) just fine, but Acrobat has no idea what the shapes mean. The result when you screenread, export, search or copy/paste is a default set of mappings - so it will be a 1:1 relationship (every "A" will become the same character) - but the pairing is not predictable, so it cannot automatically be repaired. You can do it using plugins but would have to manually work out what each pair should be, and recreate the map table a letter at a time. When this happens intentionally, it means the document author has removed or re-written the toUnicode map, using a plugin. When it happens accidentially it usually means the software exporting the PDF didn't pass the correct font information to the PDF print driver (in the PostScript stream). ... View more

Yes, it is. ... View more

It is sad to see that Adobe still seems to distance itself from the needs of its customers. A company in tune with its customers would have made many of these changes a while ago but Adobe, for one reason or another, doesn't seem able to do it. Sorry you feel that way, but Adobe are very much "in tune" with customers - however the customers for DRM are enterprises, and enterprises can afford to pay the market price for enterprise-class software. LiveCycle may be expensive compared to consumer desktop applications, but paying 5 or 6 figures for apps is commonplace in enterprise when they provide that much value to the business. PDF already is a universal solution. Adobe Reader has close to a 100% reach on all desktop and laptop hardware, tens of billions of PDF files are shared every day, and it's an ISO standard - making it the only format accepted by many governments, courts and archival services. The entire print industry relies on it, and it's used for everything from shipping labels to eBooks. Despite improvements in HTML5 no other file format can do what PDF can, period. Acrobat could allow individuals and businesses to share documents and information they want to maintain confidential and do so by e-mail through the use of security features. It does - via password and certificate encryption. What you're asking for is remote control over access to a document, which is NOT the same thing. Acrobat could very easily do the following (in my humble opinion and without too much work on Adobe's part): Sorry but no. All those features are encompassed by DRM, and cannot be achieved by any other method. It's both technically and practically unrealistic for desktop software to act as a DRM coordinator, as not only are most desktop machines firewalled, but they are rarely online 24/7/365. Servers are, hence LiveCycle is a server application. You're talking about "activating" a document on certain combinations of hardware, which you will have done for software such as Windows, Acrobat, Creative Suite, etc. - all of which must connect to a remote server to verify the license is valid (or by telephone to someone using the remote server on your behalf). That's DRM. It's not cheap, it's not easy, but it's worth the expense if the item being protected has sufficient value. If not, software vendors just use serial numbers and forget about tracking how many times the thing's been installed - and in PDF that means password or certificate encryption. ... View more

It really depends on what you're doing to the footage, and what hardware it comes from. 1080>720 isn't an integer step so there will be pixel-blending on the resize, and with most prosumer kit having chroma subsampling you're not reading complete per-pixel data in the first place. Even rendering to AVI I doubt anyone could look at an unedited 720p clip on a TV or Web video and tell if it came from a 720p capture or a scaled 1080p capture - in the former you'll have lens blur and chroma SS across pixels, in the latter you'll have fractional resampling giving near-enough the same feel, but if you apply effects that work on a per-pixel basis (such as unsharp masks or keying) to the footage before scaling they can look different. Not necessarily better or worse, just different; and your audience will only see one version so what you notice doesn't really matter! It certainly makes sense to grab the biggest frames you can on location, as aside from any future use in full-HD projects you get the option to place it at larger than "fit" size, so you have leeway to crop stuff out or stabilise motion. Prior to Mercury and solid-state drives, working in 1080 over 720 was a really noticeable drag - but now it's more about the codec than the frame size. A "tricky" codec at 480 can be more laggy to scrub than a "simple" codec at 1080, it depends on how much work your CPU has to do extracting the frame data before the MPE can scamper off with it. ... View more

Seriously, you need to read what I posted before taking me to task. I said Adobe's DRM solution is called LiveCycle. LiveCycle is a server-based solution that runs on multiple architectures, it is not a desktop application. LiveCycle Designer is a desktop application for the Windows platform, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with DRM, it's merely a tool to design forms; and so nothing do do with this thread. If you just want to stop someone reading your grocery list, there are thousands of cheap and simple ways to do it, but they're not DRM. Put it in a zip file and password-protect it. Email it using PGP. What DRM does is guarantee the protection is secure by forcing the document to "phone home" - not only revealing who is using it, but allowing the owner to remotely-revoke access. It's designed for documents which are distributed via unsecure methods but which in and of themselves must remain 100% secure, in the face of concerted and expert attack. DRM via a SAAS model is expensive, period. It has to be, as whomever is  running it must keep servers online 24/7 to authenticate every document  action, and those servers have to be extremely well protected given  their databases carry the access keys to some of the most valuable  documents on the planet. Adobe invests millions of dollars in their  hardware infrastructure, so you're not going to get a server for a  buck a week. The value in a DRM solution is not in the cost of the  software itself - you're not paying per-line for the assembly code,  you're paying for protection against the loss of documents, and for many  LiveCycle users the release of even a couple of those documents beyond  the authorized group could cost them tens of thousands of dollars in  legal costs and lost revenue. Publishers use it to circulate manuscripts  for new books, one stolen copy of which could lose them millions.  Governments and courts use it to protect the identity of people whose  lives would be put at risk if the DRM was ever broken, and Adobe LiveCycle DRM never has been. Please, don't  suggest items unavailable to Mac owner please. Live Cycle is a PC application, this a Mac Foum. And, most people that post here don't have deep pockets. All it does is set up the OP for disappointment. And also conveys an air of superiorty from PC users over Mac Users. Neither System is superior, Its just Adobe choose to provide the software and service only for PC users. (Their loss.) ... View more

They do, it's called LiveCycle. What you're trying to do is impossible without a DRM system to verify the real date, and Adobe's DRM system is fully-integrated into Acrobat, once you've bought a LiveCycle licence you simply add the server details and click on the policy of your choice - it's as simple as applying any other type of protection to a PDF file. It may not be cheap, but DRM never is. Thank you for your replies. I am surprised to see that this is not an option offered by Acrobat. Considering how universal PDF files have become and the need most users have to secure their documents when sharing them online, I think it is quite surprising Adobe hasn't yet provided an easy and simple way for users to restrict access to documents they create. ... View more

There is no "proper workaround" - it will be fixed as part of the regular product update cycle. We knew about it from day one, many people have told us about it since then, but the details of forthcoming updates is not something Adobe confirms in advance. To clarify the situation as it affects Acrobat and Adobe Reader 10.1: If you choose to display PDF documents in a browser using Read Mode (Preferences > Internet > Display in Read Mode by default) then when a PDF opens which does not set any panes, you will see the black HUD toolbar. Clicking the Trefoil icon on the HUD displays your full toolbars. If a PDF document sets panes (initial view with thumbs, bookmarks etc. open) then Read Mode will never activate, and the toolbar will always show. If a PDF does not set panes and you are not using Read Mode by default, there will be no toolbar. This is a bug. As an example, turn on the Read Mode default preference and view this file, which has no pane settings. Compare it to this one, which sets the bookmarks pane, and you will see the different UI layouts. ... View more

The Acrobat X Annotations panel explains it a little clearer: The second-left on the top row is the "regular" Highlight tool - this draws the colored block over a text selection without any sticky note attached; it's all it can do (which is why the icon doesn't have a speech bubble overlay, as the next two have). The bottom row contains text annotations. The first four do not display the sticky note icon even with a note attached, they simply display a tooltip (or open the note itself if you double-click them), so again there's no speech bubble on the icon. The fifth button is the "text note" tool, and this is the annotation type Acrobat uses if you type something into the popup field of a "regular" highlight, and hence this is why you see the highlight and the tiny speech bubble icon on the page. What started life as a "highlight" has become a "text note" as a result of entering something into the note field. We've been asked a couple of times why Acrobat needs two versions of the highlight tool, and it's all down to this ability of the second type to contain a note. ... View more

The "sticky note" icon and the highlight annotation are separate things. If you apply a highlight to a portion of text but do not add anything in the accompanying comment's note field, there is no icon. If you type something in the note, the icon appears to indicate that the highlight has an attached sub-comment, containing your note. It's just the way PDF files work. Annotations must have a placeholder on the page, even if they're parented to another type of annotation. ... View more