At 03:00 PM 6/7/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>In Joe's procedure it looks as though they are using the Acrobat software
to create the image
>file.

That is correct.  We should emphasize that you need the Acrobat Software
which is different from the Acrobat Reader.

>They are actually scanning the image into an Acrobat version 4.0 pdf file.
 And then
>exporting that into a postscript file, and then distilling the postscript
file back into a pdf
>file using Acrobat's NSF profile to save it with version 3.0 characteristics.

That is the key part, and we had problems until NSF made the profile
available.  We only had version 4.0 and to add to the confusion NSF's key
web page was unavailable for a few days.

>Also be advised that from our experience you have to be careful using
version 4.0 to insert or
>delete pages from your pdf document.  For example, if you create a pdf
file that is 10 pages
>long using the NSF Job Options to save the file with version 3.0
characteristics - that will be
>acceptable.  If you later decide to delete the last page (using Acrobat
4.0) and then save the
>file, it will now be saved with version 4.0 characteristics and FastLane
will not accept the
>file.  Even though the original file was created with the NSF Job Options,
re-saving the file
>with version 4.0 will overwrite the 3.0 characteristics.  In these cases,
I think that Joe's
>procedure may be the way to go.  If you export the file to a postscript
file and then re-distill
>it using the FastLane Job Option I think that it should work.

I didn't know this and thanks for pointing it out.

>Todd Travis
>Assistant Coordinator/Research Funds
>Division of Research
>Clarkson University
>V: 315-268-6475, F: 315-268-6515
>xxxxxx@clarkson.edu

Joe Titone
Dept. of Contracts and Grants
Univ. of Southern California
xxxxxx@mizar.usc.edu
213 740-6069

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