Should I 1) just rebuild from scratch starting from my last backup and be wiser about 3rd party plugins, or 2) see if anyone out there has experienced something like this? My question may be more about Acrobat than either ID or the Recosoft PDF2ID plugin, but of course this happens on a weekend. I only used this option because my standard ID “Export to PDF” option was messed up, in my opinion due to the trial PDF2ID plug-in from Recosoft. My client has approved EXACTLY what I sent as the “final” document, a PDF created from within Acrobat “CONVERT” (from my PERFECT ID doc and now the original ID doc is no longer available). Perhaps I don’t understand something about the way CS4 works, but the available Recosoft PDF2ID trial 8/18 seemed to introduce some kind of erratic behavior to my system and I lost a 10+MB, 44-page ID doc to a 3-MB PDF in the process. It could be because I’m still on Mac OS 10.4.11 and CS4. I’ve just had a very bizarre and unfavorable experience with the Recosoft PDF2ID trial version. My specs: CS4 Master, Mac 10.4.11 Mac Pro 2×2.66 dual core 6GB ram, 275 GB available. The benefits of protecting InDesign from crashing (if PDF2ID ever goes astray) and offering improved performance is far greater a benefit (we believe) then a minor inconvenience of allowing port no 5000 to operate.ĭirector of Engineering & Chief Architect of PDF2IDĨ/27/10 - Well, I see that the last entry was several months ago. Furthermore, this architecture offers significantly improved performance benefits on modern multi-core/processor systems due to Threading. If the PDF conversion ever crashes, InDesign is protected. The conversion is performed by a back-ground process which the PDF2ID plug-in communicates with. PDF2ID uses an advanced client-sever architecture. PDF2ID v2.0 will now post a much more intelligent message (unlike the 4999 error) that a custom firewall has been set and it needs to be relaxed.īasically, allowing port 5000 to operate normally (if you use a tool like little snitch it will tell you) will let PDF2ID function. 5000 which is a legal user-space port) is being blocked out causing the 4999 error. The API calls that PDF2ID uses is completely legal and supported by the various Operating Systems (Mac OS X/Windows).īeing more specific, a certain port (port no. The 4999 error occurs due to a custom firewall that is set. I’d also like to address the 4999 error issue mentioned above. I’d like to indicate that PDF2ID v2.0 is now shipping and a trial version has been posted on our website. If you get a chance to try this plug-in, please leave your comments about it below! That can also be very helpful in some cases. One of the most interesting things about this plug-in is that it imports some of Acrobat’s comments/annotations on to a new layer in the document. For example, someone could export a PDF from a MS Publisher document, open the PDF in InDesign, and then do some clean-up. However, even with its limitations, PDF2ID is far better than having to rebuild a document from scratch! And this may finally give people a way to “import” content from other formats. The result is a lot of unthreaded text frames. The PDF doesn’t really understand how text flows from place to place on your page in most PDF files, so the plug-in has to guess. For example, there’s no way a PDF file will “remember” your paragraph and character styles, so all the formatting is applied to text locally. Remember that a huge amount is lost whenever you create the PDF. The more complex the document, the longer it takes to convert, of course, but a 10-page document made of mostly text and a couple of images opened in about 15 seconds.Īs was pointed out in the earlier post, PDF2ID isn’t meant for round-tripping your documents. You literally just choose File > Open PDF File, set up the Options dialog box, and click OK. It’s quite astonishing to see a PDF opened in InDesign. You are in luck! Earlier this year, Sandee Cohen alerted us to a new plug-in that would convert PDF files to InDesign files… but it wasn’t ready to be released Last week, while I was in Tokyo, Recosoft finally shipped this very cool and useful tool, called PDF2ID. Is there a way I can get the content from the PDF back into an InDesign file? By accident, I saved over that file with other content. I had an InDesign file that I saved as a PDF.
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