Comments on: Your PDF Files May Show More About You Than You Expect

By: Jeff Kew

Jeff Kew — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:56:04 +0000

I actually find this a very useful feature. A number of clients will often change the filename of the low-rez pdf’s I send them to match their own filing system. In doing so they are removing my docket number off the pdf. So when they send me a pdf months later and say “let’s revise this ad for the next insertion”, well, they’ve removed my dkt number.

No problem I say, I just look in the pdf properties and lo and behold, there’s my original InDesign file name for me to reference. This saves me alot of time as I don’t need to go thru my archives.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:59:48 +0000

Darn, no more erotic fiction lying on the pasteboard and slightly overlapping the page!

By: Eugene

Eugene — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:59:55 +0000

Not that I would do such a thing, but I remember seeing some xhtml and css code before where the person who coded it had all sorts of profanities for the tags. I guess some people get a kick or justification out of doing this…

By: Roland

Roland — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:39:55 +0000

Wow, that’s good to know. No more bad-mouthing customers in parts of the files we thought they’d never see anyway… I wonder if there’s an alternative

By: Mike Rankin

Mike Rankin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:00:35 +0000

Along the same lines, if you’re delivering HTML via the Export for Dreamweaver command, all your style names (para, chara, table, cell, and object) are preserved as CSS style classes, if you choose Empty CSS Declarations in the Export dialog box.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:58:03 +0000

Branislav Milic just pointed out to me an interesting follow-up to this post: If you have some text in a text frame, and even a little bit of that text frame intersects a part of the page that will be in the PDF, then the text gets included.

This could cause problems if, for example, you make a text frame for the slug area, and you put private information in that frame. Now you export the PDF. That private info may show up in the final PDF if the bottom of the text frame was too tall and overlapped the page even a little bit.