Product

All versions of Prinergy^® Evo

Platform

Dell^®

Operating system

Microsoft^® Windows 2000, Macintosh^® OS 9.2.x, OS X.x

Symptoms

PDF files can be secured against content changes by using: 

• A password simply to open the file 

Or:

• A password for changed and/or print control. 

Adobe Acrobat allows you to save PDF files in EPS format. A file secured against content changes can be saved in EPS format, and the EPS file will print if RIPed to raster format by the Adobe CPSI RIP. However, the EPS file will fail to refine to PDF during the Prinergy and Prinergy Evo refine process and will fail to distill with Adobe Distiller.

Cause

The PDF security provision against content and printing changes is passed to the EPS file in PostScript format in order to prevent you from distilling the EPS file back into an unsecured PDF document.

Solution

Remove the document security settings in Adobe Acrobat

Note that you can save a content- or print-secured PDF file to EPS format only if you have the password for the document. Since you have the password, remove the  document security as follows.

In Acrobat 5:

1. From the File menu, select Document Security.

2. In the Document Security dialog box, in the Security Options list, select No Security.

3. Click Close.

4. Resave the document (as PDF).

5. Submit the unsecured PDF document to a Refine to PDF submission channel in Prinergy or Prinergy Evo.

6. There is no need to save as EPS first.

In Acrobat 6:

1. From the File menu, select Document Properties.

2. In the Document Properties dialog box, from the list on the left, select Security.

3. In the Document Security area, Security Method list, select No Security.

4. Resave the document (as PDF).

5. Submit the unsecured PDF document to a Refine to PDF submission channel in Prinergy or Prinergy Evo.

6. There is no need to save as EPS first.

Technical contact(s)

Michael Weber

Submitted by

Michael Weber

Date submitted

12 Feb 2004