On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 23:34, Margaret_Doll wrote: > I have discovered pdf files that are created by Alden Multimedia using > Acrobat distiller 4.05 for Windows are unprintable from unix, including > Redhat and Mac OS X systems. There are printable from Windows. > > If I look at the files in vi, I notice that the carriage, line feeds > show up as "^M". Various other features are similarly coded. pdf > files created on MacOS X do not contain the controls as "^M" and are > printable on all unix platforms. > > I thought there was a standard for pdf. Its a proprietary format AFAIK make by Adobe, and I don't know if they've given out the specs, or people have just reverse engineered it. (someone else could probably provide more info here). They are binary though, so I expect you would get a lot of unprintable characters. You didn't transfer it from an ftp server in ASCII mode by any chance did you? Regards, -- Iain Buchanan <iain@nospam.pcorp.com.au> I'm frequently appalled by the low regard you Earthmen have for life. -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3
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