RE: Saving PDF File With Xywrite

[Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx]

>"Part binary" is like "a little pregnant". They're binary. That is, they contain low-order (<32) and high-order (>127) characters.
>Only a handful of these are troublesome to Xy, but they make all the difference.

See, this is how little I know about what goes on "under the covers" in the virtual world.
I always thought that binary was binary, and ASCII was ASCII...and never the twain...and all that.

>Whatever you do, make backups before you edit!
>What were these PDFs created from?

Backups Schmackups. If I ruin the files, I just run my Xywrite program and recreate the source files
again...then drop into an Autoproc folder. 300 Toyota files just took me about 10 minutes.

>Have you considered editing in the original word-processing format, then creating new PDFs? If you still have the original files, that is.

This is the hitch in the entire process. You can't pre-code the bookmarks for appearance (the only
aspect of the PDFs I can't affect at the source). And forget about doing the work in Acrobat...it's
completely manual; Right-click each one, select color, then bold, then OK. By my calculations...for
3 bookmarks, it's 18 mouse-clicks per file! Times 8,000. That works out to Carpel Tunnel in about 2
weeks...give or take a day. No thanks.

>Carl Distefano

Brian H.