This sounds like the Distiller settings need to be changed.  You can find
the information you need to correct problems like this in the Acrobat (4)
Guide.  Check Setting Acrobat Distiller Options, Advanced Options (changing
settings).

Rosemary

At 09:24 AM 6/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm forwarding this message from a non-subscribing colleague:
>
>  I have been following the discussion about converting to PDF for
>Fastlane and thought I should mention a behavior that we discovered.
>As several people mentioned, it is possible to add or modify pages in
>PDF, distill them to a postscript file, then reconvert them to 3.0
>format.  This works until they are posted to Fastlane.  However if a
>PDF is DOWNLOADED from Fastlane, modified, converted to postscript,
>and redistilled, the contents of the document are shifted about 2" to
>the right, giving a 3"  left margin and chopping off the righthand
>side of the text.  Has anyone else experienced this problem or know
>of a solution (assuming the original source document is not
>available)?  We ended up cutting and pasting the text (which removes
>the formatting) into a new Word document and starting over.
>Cliff Wilbur
>Information Systems Manager
>University of Maine
>Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
>(207) 581-1419
>
>Sharon Jackiw, Associate Director
>Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
>University of Maine
>5717 Corbett Hall
>Orono ME 04469-5717
>phone 207.581.1480
>fax   207.581.1446
>xxxxxx@maine.edu
>
>
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