PDF files not accessable

[mpeterson]

Hello Pro Users

Has anyone had issues opening PDF files created from ProE? My boss who has administrative type rights has created some PDF files recently that I and others can not open giving us a message, " there was an error opening the file. Access denied". This started happening out of the blue in mid March some time, but I just stumbled across this yesterday. We are currently on WF5 M30. Our IT department thinks its a Pro/E issue, but we are still checking things out. Some how in these PDF files the permissions for who can read/open them are different from earlier in the year. Was there some changes in build 30 that could have made these PDF "settings" change? In the PDF settings dialog box everything is grayed out in the Securities tab. Please advise if you can.

Thanks!

Mark A. Peterson

Sr Design Engineer

Igloo Products Corp

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[mpeterson]

We got word from PTC that build M50 has the fix to this issue, but no projections as to when that release will be.

Mark P

[lwh]

That's why we use a mapkey forwarding a standard ProE postscript plot to Ghostscript for the conversion. This even allows tweaking the plot to add watermarks, logos etc. (and it works already on earlier ProE versions...)

[mjenkins]

Can youshare any information as how you are adding a watermark with Ghostscript?

In Reply to Harald Martin:

That's why we use a mapkey forwarding a standard ProE postscript plot to Ghostscript for the conversion. This even allows tweaking the plot to add watermarks, logos etc. (and it works already on earlier ProE versions...)

Michael R. Jenkins P.E.
Design Engineer
Direct: 816-801-2332
Fax: 816-891-9432

Commercial Vehicle Systems
Haldex Brake Products Corporation
10930 North Pomona Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64153-1215

[lwh]

Well...

There are tomes around explaining the syntax of Postscript. Fortunately, the principle is simple:

Use Your favorite script language to insert a sequence of Postscript commands into the ps (plot) file at the proper location. I added an example, which explains the basic commands:

• define the text
• get the sheet size
• scale the text to fit the sheet
• bind the insert command to the BeginPage command to place it on each page

For a ProE plot, insert these lines after the %%EndPageSetup line in the file.
Then, call Ghostscript to do the conversion to PDF.

With some testing, the method can also be used for Postscript files created by Word or anything else.