On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:51:26 -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. > > 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 That's not a PDF file, however. It's PostScript. Display it with "less" to see. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
