saved PDFs lose color and links

Hi Guthrie,

Some things to look over.

re: links
Are you using the Adobe PDFMaker?
For instance, using MS Word, open the Acrobat ribbon.
Configure (the icon that is second from left).
Make PDF (the icon at left).

re: color

With Adobe PDFMaker's dialog open -
Under the "Settings" tab; observe the entry for "Conversion Settings"
The associated drop-down menu provides choices.
These are the Distiller Job Options available.
Picking one (say "Standard"), click on the "Advanced Settings" button.
This opens Distiller's configuration dialog.
At the left side of the dialog, select "Color".
Look over the "Color" configurations.

Each of the categories, at the left, have configuration settings.
These dictate much of what the output PDF will be.

Click the "Help" button, in the Distiller configuration dialog, to learn about what the various settings do.
For instance, in "General" the "Object Level Compression" can (depending upon the value selected)
make the compressed objects neither visible nor usable in Acrobat 5.x or Reader 5.x.

Be well...

I have Acrobat Pro, and also Distiller came with it.

I would have a web page open, and choose Print to Adobe PDF.

I don't see any of the options that you list from there.

I can open distiller, and looking at its color options, everything seems to be set to something reasonable.

Thanks.

If I copy and paste into Word, and then create PDF from that toolbar, it works fine. It seems that printing to Adobe PDF is what fails; from either Firefox or IE.

Hi guthrie,
What I'd identified before is associated with creation of a PDF for an application such
as MS Word.

When using any browser's print command your are telling the browser to use one
of your installed printer drivers (to a local printer, a network printer, or Adobe PDF (when Acrobat is installed).

If, from the browser's print command, you select Adobe PDF then the print input
is directly processed by Distiller and a PDF is the output. No links, bookmarks, etc.

When installed, Acrobat will provide "add-ons" to the browser that permit output to PDF with more flavor.

--| Convert Web Page to PDF
(conversion will be to what ever is configured for this in Acrobat)

--| Add Web Page to Existing PDF

--| Print Web Page

--| Convert Web Page and Email

--| The "Select" button on the tool bar (in browser) to enable "Advanced Selection for Converting to Adobe PDF"

(see Acrobat Help for detailed discussion)

Also, the "Preferences" selection from the drop-down of the "Convert" button on the Adobe add-on takes you to Acrobat's "Web Page Conversion Settings".
Here, you can provide configuration settings.

View your browser's dialog for management of add-ons to see what is being provided by installation of Acrobat.

If you want a web page as a PDF then use the features provided by the Adobe add-ons.
Or, use Acrobat directly to capture the webpage.

As with Adobe PDFMaker, the browser add-ons package the print job for processing by Distiller
(the A.
This "packaging" is what makes the "flavor" (links, etc,) possible.

fwiw - These methods I use. Resultant PDFs with links, color, what not are always the output.

Be well...

Thanks for the very complete information.

I have Acrobat Pro 9, and its associated Adobe Distiller both installed, but don't see any options for plugins from them in either browser (FFox, IE).

"When installed, Acrobat will provide "add-ons" to the browser that permit output to PDF with more flavor."

You may need to enable third-party browser extensions the your browsers.
A good starting point is reviewing this topic in each browser's help.

Some resources that may be of use:

[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/333/333504.html]Acrobat PDF-capable web browsers and PDFMaker-compatible applications[/url]

[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/403/kb403914.html]Troubleshoot printing problems -[/url]

[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/406/kb406119.html]Acrobat 9 does not display PDF in browser... -[/url]

[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/328/328233.html]PDF pages don't appear... -[/url]

[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/333/333223.html]Acrobat product interoperability -[/url]


Be well...

I think that the summary is:
1) printing to PDF won't work, you need to use the acrobat PDF creator toolbar "create PDF".
2) this only is available in Office, and IE, not Firefox. :-(

So, you can't do what I wanted, to print or save portions of a web page from Firefox, and get color & links.

So use IE?

>> "So use IE"It certainly seems like a tool weakness if it dictates requirements on what other tools one can use.

FFox is about 30% market share, and growing, it seems reasonable to expect major tools to work with it.