-------- = Forwarded message --------
From: Kurt Pfei= fle <kurt.pfeifle@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [kde-promo] booklet
T= o: KDE Promo <kde-promo@kde.org= >

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Felix Michel <felix_michel@gmx.ch&= gt; wrote:

> C:\downloads> *pdfinfo Kde_booklet_redistilled_by_Ghostscript.pdf*<= br> > Producer: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 GPL Ghostscript 8.71
> CreationDate: =C2=A0 09/15/10 09:14:03
> ModDate: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A009/15/10 09:14:03
> Tagged: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 no
> Pages: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A07
> Encrypted: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0no
> Page size: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0419.528 x 595.276 pts
> File size: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0191791 bytes
> Optimized: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0no
> PDF version: =C2=A0 =C2=A01.4
>
> In detail:
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0- InDesign's signature in the metadata is gone. =C2= =A0;-)
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0- File size has shrinked from ~580 kBytes to ~190 kBytes<= br> >
> I don't see any visible difference in Acro Reader 9.3.3 on WinXP a= t 96dpi
> screen resolution and 200% Zoom other than a smaller degradation in th= e KDE
> logo at the top of each page. But this could be improved or kept at sa= me
> quality by adding some appropriate tweaking parameters to the Ghostscr= ipt
> commandline (without much more finetuning, first try by adding
> =C2=A0-dPDFSETTINGS=3D/prepress).
>
> Cheers,
> Kurt

thanks Kurt. i only used this font once and it is not really us= eful for my
purpose because i need a bold version of this font. i am new at this whole = pdf
printing stuff, so i am happy to get some hints. maybe we should provide to=
versions, one without indesign signature and so on and the other one for printing the booklet. what do you think?

<= /div>

I don't think circulating 2 different PDF versions of the sam= e KDE promo file (which even will not display any visible difference on use= rs' screens) would work. People will not micro-manage 2 versions for th= emselves. Murphy's law should tell us that people then will always use = the wrong file for printing =C2=A0;-)

My point is: whichever version we distribute should wor= k on all (even older) PDF viewers and on (also older) Linux printers. And b= efore distributing, let people run some tests. (It may even be that the cur= rent file is working fine in all viewers and through all printer drivers, a= nd the message in my cmd.exe console was fake. I've just had bad experi= ence with CS3/4/5-PDFs...)

If you want to retain/restore the InDesign signature in= the metadata even after running it through a sanitizing Ghostscript re-dis= tillation, I can give you some additional commandline which would do just t= hat. Try this:

=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0gs \

=C2=A0= =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0-o Kde_booklet_redistilled_by_Ghostscript.pdf \<= /span>

=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0-sDEVICE= =3Dpdfwrite \

=C2=A0= =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0-c=C2=A0 "[/Creator (Adobe= InDesign CS3 \(5.0\)) /Author (KDE Promo Team) /Title (foobar) /Subject (s= omething) /Keywords (blabla, so-and-so) /DOCINFO pdfmark" \

-dPDFSETTINGS=3D/printer \<= /div>

=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0-f Kde_boo= klet.pdf

This will produce the following metadata as displayed by 'pdfi= nfo':

Title: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0= =C2=A0 =C2=A0foobar

Subject: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0something

Keywords: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 blabla, so-and-so

Author: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 KDE Promo Team

Creator: =C2=A0 =C2=A0= =C2=A0 =C2=A0Adobe InDesign CS3 (5.0)

Producer: =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 GPL Ghostscript 8.71

CreationDate: = =C2=A0 09/15/10 16:53:49

ModDate: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A009/15/10 16:53:49=

Tagged: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 no

Pages: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A07

Encrypted: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0no

Page size: =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0419.528 x 595.276 pts

File size: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0192151 bytes

Optimized: =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0no

PDF version: =C2=A0 =C2=A01.4

You= could play with the -dPDFSETTINGS=3D parameter to see some filesize and qu= ality differences. Supported values to use are "/screen", "/= ebook", "/default", "/printer" and "/prepress= ". You could even replace the "Creator:" thingie if you want= ...

Cheers,

Kurt

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