My specs: CS4 Master, Mac 10.4.11 Mac Pro 2×2.66 dual core 6GB ram, 275 GB available . . is that enough?

I’ve just had a very bizarre and unfavorable experience with the Recosoft PDF2ID trial version. It could be because I’m still on Mac OS 10.4.11 and CS4. 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.

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). 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 question may be more about Acrobat than either ID or the Recosoft PDF2ID plugin, but of course this happens on a weekend. 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?

I can see that their newest version will be great etc, but for those of us who are waiting for paychecks to upgrade to OS6 and CS5, this is a real issue on a real weekend. Any ideas out there would be helpful.

The only time this will occur is if the page that’s being converted contains many graphics objects (like 20000 or more).

PDF2ID has to collect the graphics data together and form something coherent out of it.

The above said the file will convert; it will just take some time.

We do have a patch that speeds things up to a certain degree but unfortunately its for our real users of PDF2ID and not for the trial version.

We’ve tried pages with 50000 or more graphics objects and it converts fine. The faster the system the faster the conversion speed. But the patch we have speeds it up more.

PDF2ID works

– paul chadha

– paul chadha

By complex I mean the original InDesign file had many overlaying objects before the file was exported to .pdf.

Anyone else having this problem?

Thanks.

When InDesign is running and you use the Open PDF file command, Little Snitch will get invoked. You can allow any/all connection (first radio button) or the default recommended one (last radio button). It should give you a port 5000 access warning.

ie APPLICATION –
do you select the plugin?
Nothing in the PDF2ID app folder?

SERVER –
Any server?
Local? Network?

PORT –
5000

PROTOCAL-
Any?

I’d like to indicate that PDF2ID v2.0 is now shipping and a trial version has been posted on our website.

I’d also like to address the 4999 error issue mentioned above.

The 4999 error occurs due to a custom firewall that is set. The API calls that PDF2ID uses is completely legal and supported by the various Operating Systems (Mac OS X/Windows).

Being more specific, a certain port (port no. 5000 which is a legal user-space port) is being blocked out causing the 4999 error. 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.

Basically, allowing port 5000 to operate normally (if you use a tool like little snitch it will tell you) will let PDF2ID function.

PDF2ID uses an advanced client-sever architecture. The conversion is performed by a back-ground process which the PDF2ID plug-in communicates with. If the PDF conversion ever crashes, InDesign is protected. Furthermore, this architecture offers significantly improved performance benefits on modern multi-core/processor systems due to Threading.

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.

Regards -

Paul Chadha
Director of Engineering & Chief Architect of PDF2ID
Recosoft Corporation

…..just a tad late.

Error crippled non functioning Demo expired months ago! So no way to tell if this works. And, as said, Reconsoft wouldn’t/couldn’t reset my demo – so pretty much impossible to test this product.

Also can’t run any networked computer with a firewall disabled – thats just mad

Maybe version 2 will allow the demo to run again – if not, then anyone who ran the v1 demo is going to be rather stuffed!

Reconsoft told me that the problem was fixed in the release version, but wouldn’t/couldn’t send me working demo or reset the demo – but they did convert my test pdf (woopie do!).

Don’t have any faith in this product. If I really get stuck then I’ll take a look again with V2. For me the support is poor and the product costly….and they’ve raised the cost again with V2 – well what can you say.

Rather than something I would purchase as an extra item for my toolkit – its now something that I’ll only purchase if I’m backed into a corner and desperately need it.