Good suggestion Susan.  Thanks Joe.

violet

Violet Bruce
Office of Sponsored Projects
Smithsonian Institution
phone: 202/287-3687
fax:       202/287-3707
email:xxxxxx@osp.si.edu

>>> xxxxxx@GWU.EDU 06/07/00 01:54PM >>>
joe...can you put it as an attachment to the list serve?  i think there are
many who might find it useful.  thanks,
susan

Joe Titone wrote:

> 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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The George Washington University
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