I have a written procedure for how to do this successfully with v4.0.  If
you wish, I'll send it to you as an attachment, but you may have to modify
it slightly depending on your operating system and scanner.  We had
problems too until NSF provided a Fastlane profile for Distiller 4.0 that
allows output in 3.0 mode.

At 11:46 Am 6/7/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Here at the College of New Jersey we ran into a real problem converting
>files to PDF in preparation for NSF Fastlane submission.  We used the
>Adobe Acrobat Distiller 4.0 to do the conversions, then we view the
>whole proposal and saw that not all the parts were readable as Fastlane
>warns.  We then went to the Hints page and followed their step by step
>instructions but the results were the same.  When viewing and printing
>the whole proposal, we again had distortion and unreadable text.  Can
>anyone give us hints as to what went wrong! You can respond to me
>directly or to the list.  Thanks.
>
>Vilja Casey (xxxxxx@tcnj.edu)
>Program Assistant
>Grants and Sponsored Research
>The College of New Jersey
>
>
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Univ. of Southern California
xxxxxx@mizar.usc.edu
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