Japanese PDFs -- a summary

[John Pitt <jpitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was having mega problems producing Japanese language PDFs of large
manuals, until I received lots of excellent advice from the usual suspects
(Dina Davidson, Dmitri Yunov, Dick Gaskill, Michael [the dead chook]
Richards, and, especially, Steve Schwedland.

I had three major problems: 

1. PDFs produced using Dov's recommended setup couldn't be viewed on a
non-Japanese o/s; 

2.PDFs produced using a HP 4Si/4SiMX PS (which can be opened on any o/s)
were too big to ftp to our Singapore printers; and

3. after applying all the recommendations, I kept getting the
out-of-virtual-memory kill message.

1. Was easy -- accept the inevitable and produce online PDFs only for
Japanese Windows. (with download all fonts as Type 42). PDF sizes are about
7 Mb

2. Ended up producing very large .PDFs using the HP driver, but split book
into 3 parts and zipped the PDFs. Final size before zipping is about; after
zipping is

3. Was very interesting, but Steve Schwedland supplied a fix (he sent me a
file called LowVM.ps which I placed in my ..\Acrobat3\Distiller\Startup
directory; and which Distiller loaded next time I opened it). Don't know who
owns the rights to this little gem, so you may need to ask Stevo
(Schwedland, Steve [Steve.Schwedland@corp.sykes.com]).

Ta all, and back to work.

J

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> Wilcom Pty Ltd
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