On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 15:51 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > Dear Linux Using Friends: > > I've run into a trouble that Firefox users who "print to file" and > create pdf output generate files that acroread cannot open. It would be bettere to install rpm cups-pdf and then print to the printer: Cups-Pdf. > > My teaching assistant first discovered this while browsing the web. A > variety of pdf created by print to file were viewable in evince, but > not acrobat. SInce most students are using acrobat on Windows or > Macintosh, this created a problem. > > In my Ubunutu Linux (Hardy Herron) system, the error message I see > when I try to open the file is "There was an error processing a page. > Error while parsing a Form, Type 3 font, or Pattern." I have not seen > the Microsoft Acroboat error with my own eyes, but the students > complain it says "not a valid pdf file." > > In one example, the error says "Adobe Reader could not open 'file.pdf' > because it is either not a supported file type or becausethefile has > been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and > wasn't correctly decoded)". However, the EXACT same file can be > viewed with Evince: > > http://pj.freefaculty.org/linux/file.pdf > > I'm posting a copy of a bad pdf file that was created by opening it in > acrobat reader, and using save-a-copy: > > http://pj.freefaculty.org/linux/4145321-corrupt.pdf > > Sometimes I've had luck converting files pdf to ps and pack to pdf > with pdftops and ps2pdf14, but it does not always work. The end > result has some of the heading fonts that are legible, but there are > just fuzzy blocks where the actual text is supposed to be. > > I have seen the same problem happen when users open a pdf file in > Firefox, which then opens the Acrobat for Linux plugin, and when the > "save as" option is used, it creates an illegible pdf. I'm quite > baffled why that happens, because so far as I can tell, the pdf that > was saved should not be changed by acrobat reader. > > If you have any ideas, please let me know. > > -- > Paul E. Johnson > Professor, Political Science > 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 > University of Kansas > -- ======================================================================= You will receive a legacy which will place you above want. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
