It could be because I’m still on Mac OS 10.4.11 and CS4. I’ve just had a very bizarre and unfavorable experience with the Recosoft PDF2ID trial version. My specs: CS4 Master, Mac 10.4.11 Mac Pro 2×2.66 dual core 6GB ram, 275 GB available. 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.ĭirector of Engineering & Chief Architect of PDF2IDĨ/27/10 - Well, I see that the last entry was several months ago. Furthermore, this architecture offers significantly improved performance benefits on modern multi-core/processor systems due to Threading. If the PDF conversion ever crashes, InDesign is protected. The conversion is performed by a back-ground process which the PDF2ID plug-in communicates with. PDF2ID uses an advanced client-sever architecture. 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.īasically, allowing port 5000 to operate normally (if you use a tool like little snitch it will tell you) will let PDF2ID function. 5000 which is a legal user-space port) is being blocked out causing the 4999 error. The API calls that PDF2ID uses is completely legal and supported by the various Operating Systems (Mac OS X/Windows).īeing more specific, a certain port (port no. The 4999 error occurs due to a custom firewall that is set. I’d also like to address the 4999 error issue mentioned above. I’d like to indicate that PDF2ID v2.0 is now shipping and a trial version has been posted on our website. If you get a chance to try this plug-in, please leave your comments about it below! That can also be very helpful in some cases. One of the most interesting things about this plug-in is that it imports some of Acrobat’s comments/annotations on to a new layer in the document. For example, someone could export a PDF from a MS Publisher document, open the PDF in InDesign, and then do some clean-up. However, even with its limitations, PDF2ID is far better than having to rebuild a document from scratch! And this may finally give people a way to “import” content from other formats. The result is a lot of unthreaded text frames. The PDF doesn’t really understand how text flows from place to place on your page in most PDF files, so the plug-in has to guess. For example, there’s no way a PDF file will “remember” your paragraph and character styles, so all the formatting is applied to text locally. Remember that a huge amount is lost whenever you create the PDF. The more complex the document, the longer it takes to convert, of course, but a 10-page document made of mostly text and a couple of images opened in about 15 seconds.Īs was pointed out in the earlier post, PDF2ID isn’t meant for round-tripping your documents. You literally just choose File > Open PDF File, set up the Options dialog box, and click OK. It’s quite astonishing to see a PDF opened in InDesign. You are in luck! Earlier this year, Sandee Cohen alerted us to a new plug-in that would convert PDF files to InDesign files… but it wasn’t ready to be released Last week, while I was in Tokyo, Recosoft finally shipped this very cool and useful tool, called PDF2ID. Is there a way I can get the content from the PDF back into an InDesign file? By accident, I saved over that file with other content. I had an InDesign file that I saved as a PDF.
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