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Upgrade to Acrobat X Pro and Can't Search Text on Web

traders
Registered: Oct 17 2011
Posts: 3

We recently upgraded our system from Acrobat 7 to Acrobat X Pro. We used to use smallest file size to distill our pages to upload them to the web and have them searchable. With Acrobat X when we use smallest file size it changes the text to an image and is no longer searchable on our website. Is there a different Distiller setting to use that will maintain the searchability of the pdf.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.1, Macintosh
KellyMcC
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Jul 11 2011
Posts: 389
Acrobat X should not be converting your PDFs to images, the Distiller settings aren't that different from 7 to 10.

A few questions, where are these PDFs being created, for example are you using PDFMaker from MS Office or Printing to the Adobe PDF Printer?

What is the originating application?

Kelly McCathran
Adobe Community Expert
Certified Technical Trainer+

traders
Registered: Oct 17 2011
Posts: 3
We build advertising in Quark 9.0. From there we create a postscript file, then run the ps file through distiller to create the pdf.
KellyMcC
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Jul 11 2011
Posts: 389
Is the ad real text in Quark, or a picture of text? Can you post a sample using http://acrobat.com and paste the link here?

To upload to acrobat.com

1. Login with your FREE Adobe ID and Password.
2. Click the Upload button and navigate to your file.
3. Click the arrow to the right of the filename and choose Share Document.
4. Select Publish it (in the lower left corner of your screen).
5. Click Publish.
6. In the Publish message, click Copy Link.
7. Paste that link into your forum post.

Kelly McCathran
Adobe Community Expert
Certified Technical Trainer+

KellyMcC
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Jul 11 2011
Posts: 389
One final note, are you using Transparency in Quark 9? If so, printing to PostScript will turn the transparent areas that touch text into Pixels. This is not an Acrobat issue, but a Quark 9 & Transparency issue. InDesign will allow you to keep the transparent text Vector (not raster) if you use File > Export and don't make PostScript. I don't know if Quark offers this option (you can check with them).

Kelly McCathran
Adobe Community Expert
Certified Technical Trainer+

traders
Registered: Oct 17 2011
Posts: 3
I have uploaded 2 files. The first file 04-4c.pdf has text that the program seems to see but the display ads don't seem to search.
The second file 32-4c doesn't seem to be able to search anything.

https://acrobat.com/#d=VfzgEo5E*tCq18*at-BV2A