DART Guide

Enhancing DART Schlumberger Pdf Report using Acrobat

from Adobe
By Corinne JACQUES

Content ID: 4219890 Validation Date: 21-SEP-06 Expiration Date:

Have you ever looked at your DART report, and thought:

How nice it would be if I could modify this little thing in my Pdf file ?

Well, Using Acrobat Software from Adobe, can enable you to considerably enhance
your DART report, by working directly on the Schlumberger Pdf file generated by DART,
or by providing you with alternative way for printing your report.

The following file content should help you with the following:
* Printing
Correctly setting Windows default printer
No printers in Windows
Paper size “Letter” or “A4”
Max number of columns printed in a DART page
Acrobat printers, another way of printing DART reports
Acrobat Distiller or Schlumberger Pdf Report
Merging Pdf reports
Deleting pages from a Pdf report
Extracting/inserting/replacing Pdf pages
* Edition of cells
Correcting the value of a cell in a report
Editing an empty cell
* Converting data to and from Pdf

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Printing

Printing

Windows default printer

Before acquisition, it is best to choose as the Windows default printer, the printer that will be used during
the job, because all printers do not use the same number of number of lines, and this affect printing,
because DART would prepare a formatting for printing on your Windows default printer. If you actually
print on another printer, the risk that your page won’t appear completely or will not be well sized
increases.

To choose the printer, go to windows menu

Start
Settings
Printers

Right click on your printer, then Set it as default printer.

Only after, open your DART software, to start acquiring.

No printers in Windows

When 2 DART jobs are opened at the same time, (Note: Second job may be open by launching a second
DART windows, from DART executable icon, then opening a second DART job) you may lose the
windows printer, and not be able to print anymore. Only solution in that case is to completely shutdown
and restart the computer. Printers installed in Windows will reappear.

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Paper size “Letter” or “A4”

Before using a printer in DART, one option needs to be checked: The size of the printout, most
commonly “letter” or “A4”.
Having set “letter” instead of “A4” would reduce the width of the printed page, and possibly make you
loose one column, on your final printout.

Number of columns printed in a DART page

Using DART Schlumberger printer, you can print 9 columns in a portrait page or 14 columns in a
landcape page. You can print respectively only 8 columns and 13 columns from the Summary Of Result
page, because an additional one column is used by DART to output the duration of the flow period.

One method that has been proposed is to change the scaling of the page, from 100%, to 80%. This will
increase the number of columns available, both in portrait and in landcape mode. This option is however
depending on the printer. If your default printer does not have it, then your Schlumberger Pdf printer
won’t have it as well. Also, this option reduces also the height of the page, in addition to its width, which
makes the page appear as not being well fit to its page.

You can see below this option, respectively from PdfWriter, and Acrobat Distiller:

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Acrobat printers, another way of printing DART reports

Pdf Writer and Acrobat Distiller are 2 printers that are added to your list of available printers, when
Acrobat is installed. They go in addition to the Schlumberger Pdf printer, available from DART.

It happens sometimes that the page to print does not appear fully when printing with the Schumberger Pdf
report.

For example, even the nominal number of columns won’t appear fully (14 for landscape pages, or
13 in the Summary of Result, and 9 for portrait pages):

Also the bottom of the page can get lost, with either the last values or the last events, not
appearing at all, before report jumps to next section on next page.

Example: Last value of a Main Result section with Schlumberger Pdf report:

Last value of the same Main Result section with Acrobat Distiller:

In this example, 21 lines had been skipped by Schlumberger Pdf report, while they all appear in
Acrobat Distiller, or on the screen before printing.

Acrobat PdfWriter is not very usefull, since it records even less lines from the section than
Schlumberger Pdf Printer.

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Acrobat Distiller or Schlumberger Pdf Report

Schlumberger Pdf Report is not perfect, considering the final printed report. Acrobat Distiller Printer
corrects some of the flaws from Schlumberger Pdf report, but adds some more of its own and is not
perfect either.

Some of the drawbacks from Acrobat distiller are:

• Duplicated events/values or empty pages
• Image pages not printing
• Dividers pages have Schlumberger representative and clients name a bit close from the right of the
page

So the best seems to produce a merged report. Events, Summary of Results and Main Results pages will
be better printed Acrobat Distiller while all other sections or pages will be better printed using
Schlumberger Pdf Printer.

Merging Pdf reports

You can merge two or more Pdf reports, by deleting pages from a Pdf, extracting pages from a Pdf file, or
importing pages from a Pdf file into another Pdf file.

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Deleting pages from a Pdf report

1. Select “thumbnails” tab, to see a reduced pictures of all Pdf

pages
2. Select the reduced view of the page you want to delete
3. Then press del.

Extracting/inserting/replacing Pdf pages

In the thumbnail tab:

4. Select a thumbnail
5. Rigt click
6. Select wanted option

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Edition of cells

Edition of cells

Correcting the value of a cell in a report

GasGR is given in the Schlumberger Pdf report with unit (SG). Your client is requesting you to change it
to (air=1), which is more commonly used in the oilfield. You may not be able to choose this unit in
DART (up to version 1.1a44), but you can manually edit the resulting Pdf file from DART.

Choose the TouchUp Text Tool from Acrobat

And highlight the text or value you want to correct.

Type the new value and unselect the changed value. The change is validated.

Editing an empty cell

You cannot use the TouchUp Text Tool, to select an empty cell, because there is nothing to select.

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Edition of cells

To fill in an empty cell, or to add a line, anywhere in the report, use the Form Tool

Create a border at the place and of the size of the text to add. When the border is chosen and the mouse is
released, a form appears:

In Appearance Tab,
• Uncheck Border Color
• Check Background Color as solid, of the color you want
• Select Text Color, Font and Size
• Check that the Form Field is visible, so it will appear when viewing the page, AND when printing.

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Edition of cells

You can know the attributes of an existing Pdf text, similar to the one you want to add by using
the TouchUp Text Tool, selecting the text, right clicking and selecting “Attributes”. This can
help you selecting the font and size of the text you are adding with the Form Tool.

In Options tab,
• Select in “default” field, the text or value you wish to appear on the page
• Select the alignment, a sentence in the DART pdf report would be aligned left, a value in a cell would
be aligned right, and a unit would be aligned in the middle.
• Uncheck the box for the limits of characters, otherwise, your text may not fully appear on the page.
This limit also affects you when you use the TouchUp Text, to modify an existing field, by restricting
the number of characters affectively appearing on the page, compared to the ones you typed.

For the text you created using this method, to appear in the Pdf file, you need to unselect the Form Text.
This can be done, by selecting any tools other than the Form tool.

To fill up a channel with a unit that doesn’t exist in DART, the above method can be used on a
channel with “no unit” selected in DART.

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Edition of cells

Above method can also be used to add a note on the bottom of a predefined page, like Summary
of Result or Main Result page.

Or to add some information in the Header section of the report.

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Converting data to and from Pdf

Converting data to and from Pdf

Inserting a Pdf file from the client into a Schlumberger Pdf

report

• Open the Pdf file using Acrobat

• Go to menu “File”, “Export”, “Extract Image As”, “JPEG File”
• Save the resulting file on your disk
• In Microsoft Word or Excel, choose menu “Insert”, “Picture”, “From File”
• Select the image that was just inserted
• Copy in the clipboard (Menu “Edit”, “copy”, or Ctrl+C)
• Create a picture page in DART report
• Paste the picture from Microsoft word or Excel
• That’s it! The Pdf file from the client, now belongs as information in your report, and is appearing
under the standard header from Schlumberger, while keeping the header from the client, if there was
any !

If you create in DART a “user editable” page instead of a “picture” page, selections can only be
copied from Microsoft Word, and not anymore from Microsoft Excel.

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Converting data to and from Pdf

When creating a picture page from Excel copied cells, it is recommended to leave an empty line
below the last written line. Otherwise, a line appears in the middle of the last written line.

The above method is also usefull when trying to insert an excel page, like a DST string, as
image into a “picture” page in DART report. It can happen, that the copy and paste function
from Excel to DART report is not efficient and cuts the original Excel file, in width or in length.
In that case, a solution is to directly convert the DST string from Excel into a Pdf file, then apply
the method above, to reconvert the Pdf file, into an image that will better fit into a DART
“picture” page.

Instead of a full file, you can also edit part of a Pdf file and convert it into an image by
copy/paste using the Graphic Select Tool.

Converting Pdf data into text data

Pdf files are not readable using standard file reader. From a client point of view, it is not good to receive a
Pdf report, even on electronic format, because they cannot re-use the data provided in another program,
like Microsoft Excel to make graphs, or else.

Also, transforming data from a Pdf file, into a text file, removes the chances of having differences
between the printed report from DART, and the exported Ascii files, due to difference in interpolation
method when outputting the data.

Some functions in Acrobat enable to transform text file from Pdf file, into a text ASCII file.

First tool for a simple selection is Text Select Tool. First select the tool in Acrobat:

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Converting data to and from Pdf

Then, select the text to copy:

Then copy and paste into a text file, in Notepad or another Text editor:

Similarly, the Column select Tool, selects a column.

And the Table selects and copy text data under the form of a table:

A text from a Pdf file can only be converted in a text format again, if it was originally a text
before it’s conversion as Pdf. So a text, cannot be copied as image, transformed into a Pdf file,
and then reconverted as a text file.

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