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1. Re: Printing to Acrobat = no images!???
lrosenth Jul 15, 2009 12:43 PM (in response to KStreetStudio)What version of Adobe Acrobat do you have installed?
Do you mean you are printing to the Adobe PDF Printer? What Options do you have selected?
How is your application interacting with the PDF printer?
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2. Re: Printing to Acrobat = no images!???
KStreetStudio Jul 15, 2009 5:00 PM (in response to lrosenth)I've got version 9.1.1.
Updates are ready but the last one messed up my copy of Adobe Premeiere CS4 and it took me a couple of days to get that sorted out. Until I finish the current video project I'm holding off on all Adobe updates.
And yes, I am printing using Adobe PDF, using the default settings.
I'm not seeing any errors at all. Acrobat seems to take what I send it OK but somewhere along the lines either doesn't receive the bitmaps or it ignores them. Isn't there a logging featre in Acrobat somewhere. Maybe that was Distiller.
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3. Re: Printing to Acrobat = no images!???
lrosenth Jul 16, 2009 2:12 AM (in response to KStreetStudio)What if you print manually instead of programmatically?
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4. Re: Printing to Acrobat = no images!???
KStreetStudio Jul 16, 2009 3:37 AM (in response to lrosenth)Manually?
My program just uses standard Delphi and Windows functions to print. By print, I mean when I want to create a PDF file I print to Adobe PDF, same as I do with all the other programs on my PC. I'm not using and Adobe SDK routines.
Like I wrote initally, I can print fine to several other printers, but not to Acrobat to create PDF files, and in the past Acrobat has sometimes worked and sometimes not worked, depending on the update. SmartDraw's PDF filter works, but that software is not on a lot of people's systems. I may contact them to see if I can find out what they are doing differently.
Also, I have all kinds of error trapping around the bit of code that creates the bitmaps and sends them to the printer, all part of trying to figure out what is going wrong. No errors are reported either by my program or Adobe PDF. I even went as far as, during the print process, to copy the bitmaps to the clipboard so I could see exactly what Adobe PDF is getting. I then pasted them into Photoshop. The images look fine.
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5. Re: Printing to Acrobat = no images!???
lrosenth Jul 16, 2009 4:46 AM (in response to KStreetStudio)It's impossible to know what is going on short of having your code and tracing through it...
Best I can suggest is that unlike other drivers, Adobe's PDF Printer is a Postscript-based solution. Can you try printing to a native Postscript printer from your application to see what happens? Or what if you print to a file and then run the Postscript manually through Distiller?
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6. Re: Printing to Acrobat = no images!???
KStreetStudio Jul 24, 2009 12:05 PM (in response to KStreetStudio)Well, it looks like I do have problems printing to Postscript printers, so it probably isn't just a Acrobat issue.
As far as printing the bitmaps themselves, the code is one line using the DrawBitmap or StretchBitmap command I noted in my original post.


