Lee, On Wednesday 03 November 2004 11:39, BandiPat wrote:
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 12:36 pm, Trey Gruel wrote:
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Rikard Johnels wrote:
Does anyone know if Adobe changed anything in their PDF files lately? I received a file from my accountant that wont open.
not sure if the error is related or not, but adobe has let the linux version of acroread sit at version 5.0.9, while windows and mac have 6.0.1. if the pdf was created for acrobat 6, it may have compatibility issues..
-- trey
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Rikard, You might also want to give "kpdf" a whirl on this file. Gpdf & Kpdf are both using xpdf for their backend and it seems to be keeping up better than Adobe's acrobat for Linux.
I just came across a PDF document (<URL: http://www.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~hu/pub/lopstr03-yokoyama.pdf>) that gives Acrobat Reader 5.0.9 no problem at all but which causes the native Linux PDF applications such as "xpdf" and "kpdf" to hang. According to Reader's display of the document properties, this document purportedly conforms to PDF version 1.3 specification. It was apparently created on a Unix or Linux (-like) system from a TeX original document by "dvipdfm" (version 0.13.2c-j-pld). There seems to be some irony there...
I too have had some recent problems with some pdf files, but I'm not sure it's because they were generated for v6.x or if the pdf files were just poorly generated by a bad piece of MS software.
Lee
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