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[PDF] Xerox RDO to PDF conversion

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Major Information Systems

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Jun 6, 2003, 3:07:58 AM6/6/03
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Hello All,
Our customer runs a small digital printing plant. Their machines accept PDF and PostScript as input.
However, some of their customers deliver their jobs as Xerox RDO files.
Could you give some hint on how to convert Xerox's RDOs to PDFs without buying expensive Xerox DigiPath system for the sole purpose of file conversion?
 
Regards
Aleksander Borkowski

Brian Harned

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Jun 6, 2003, 9:32:16 AM6/6/03
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All RDO's have a .con folder associated with them.  This folder contains the tiff images for the job.  Just import the tiffs into Acrobat.

Major Information Systems

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Jun 6, 2003, 9:50:01 AM6/6/03
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But I would have to restore the layout of tiff images for each page manually. This is not accurate and time consuming ..
A.B.

Brian Harned

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Jun 6, 2003, 11:21:43 AM6/6/03
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What do you mean by 'I would have to restore the layout of tiff images for each page manually'?  Does each page have multiple layers?
 
The fastest way to create a pdf like this is to import the first image into Acrobat, then select all of the other images in Explorer (they're seqentially numbered) and drag them onto Acrobat (the page you just imported). Acrobat should put the tiffs in order of their file name.  You will then be prompted as to where you would like to place your images.  Select 'After' 'last page'.  It works much better in Acrobat 5.  I know this is time consuming, but I don't know of another way outside of possessing a Digipath.

Jan Wiersma

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Jun 6, 2003, 11:37:44 AM6/6/03
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Hi,
It might be an option to ask this customer to save the rdo as pdf. That's possible. However you will loose your imposition done on the Digipath.
You have to redo this in Acrobat with some plugins.
 
regards Jan

Ahmed Zaki

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Jun 7, 2003, 4:01:10 AM6/7/03
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Brian is Right
you will only loose the header and footer and some configuration related to the document structure which is embedded in the rdo files but the scan imaged it self you will get it correctly from the tiff.
 
Ahmed
 
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Major Information Systems

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Jun 7, 2003, 4:24:42 AM6/7/03
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Thanks Brian & Ahmed!
It worked :-))
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From: Ahmed Zaki
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [PDF] Xerox RDO to PDF conversion

Brian is Right
you will only loose the header and footer and some configuration related to the document structure which is embedded in the rdo files but the scan imaged it self you will get it correctly from the tiff.
 
Ahmed
 
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