Re: Acceptablility of Abiword PDF files to printers.

Hi John,

> We know that pdf files prepared from the output of MSWord sometimes
> bounce at the printers beause of font embedding problems, color model
> problems (RGB vs CMYK) and failure to adhere to published pdf
> standards. The question is: Does anyone have any experience, positive
> or negative. with Abiword files as presented to the printing
> industry? In particular has anyone used a Abiword-produced file with
> digital printers such as LSI?

I can only speak for the Unix version of AbiWord here.

AbiWord uses the Gnome Print library for printing to PostScript and
PDF. Gnome Print generates standards-compliant PDF. The PDF it
generates is sub-optimally large. For example, it doesn't Flate or LZW
encode the PDF's streams, preferring ASCII-85 encoding instead.

Gnome Print embeds subsetted TTF or T1 fonts in all of its output.

Gnome Print uses a sRGB colorspace. It doesn't know about CMYK, LAB,
HSV, etc... But then, neither does AbiWord.

I don't know of anyone who is sending AbiWord-generated PDFs to a
publishing house. But I do know of a large number of users who use
AbiWord to print mail-merged form letters.

Hope that helps,
Dom
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Received on Tue Jul 31 20:55:02 2007