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How do you scan to PDF 1.3

danowolf
Registered: Mar 22 2010
Posts: 4
Answered

We use Fujitsu FI-6130 scanner with Adobe Acrobat Standard and Pro to scan black and white 8 1/2 x 11 documents for later viewing on/over the internet to customer locations.

One customer has a rather antiquated network that has low bandwidth and old software so they have made a special request that we make smaller scan sizes (which we can handle) and that the scans are PDF 1.3 aka Acrobat 4 compatible because they cannot open anything that is 1.4 and up with there system.

We can make the files smaller without issue but we cant seem to configure Adobe Acrobat 9 standard and pro to scan directly to PDF 1.3 using the Create>PDF From Scanner>Custom Scan

I spent a couple hours reading other posts and watching some training videos and attending the scanning seminar that was recorded this month by Mr. Mank(I think its "Mank") that was about scanning to Adobe Acrobat but I could not find anything other than PDF/A standards which I believe makes the file PDF 1.4.

Any way to do this? The reason we want to scan directly using the Create>PDF From Scanner>Custom Scan method is speed. Adding a step of Optimizing to change the file would add alot of time to the process which we want to avoid.

Thanks. Dan Hayden

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Windows
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
I suspect that you will have to incorporate PDF Optimizer into the workflow.
Rather than processing individual PDFs consider use of a Batch Sequence.
Create a new Batch Sequence that just uses the built-in sequence "Description" which lets you add metadata (title, author, subject, keywords).
However, you don't have to add anything.
You could leave the defaults ("leave as is") in place.
As part to the Batch Sequence configuration you can evoke PDF Optimizer.
Click the Output Options button. In the dialog, select "PDF Optimizer". Click the "Settings" button. Configure Optimizer.
Configure it for output of the desired PDF version. You can go back as far as Acrobat 4.x (PDF version 1.3).

A Batch Sequence can process many PDFs in a given directory.
So, park the customer's PDFs in "their" directory.
At an appropriate time, run the Batch Sequence.
(Best if done on files on the local machine vice across a network).
Use a Preflight to confirm PDF version.
All good? Send the PDF's to the customer.

Be well...

Be well...

danowolf
Registered: Mar 22 2010
Posts: 4
Thank you very much for your reply.
I think I am going to try and see if my customer can work with PDF/A standard documents.
I am going to use your(daka630) suggestion for batch jobs so I can learn how to do it. We can use that for other work we do and that will be good information to apply to the workflow and if they insist on 1.3 we can use it for that as well.

Thank you,

Dan
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