More details: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
One of the main problems I have with acroread is that fonts are not displaying correctly. That's the best I can make of it---two words are overlaid on each other; a whole line may only be an inch or two wide, but in letters 14 or 18 points high. I am now trying xpdf and gv also. Thanks for the

Re: More details: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-08 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the main problems I have with acroread is that fonts are not displaying correctly. That's the best I can make of it---two words are overlaid on each other; a whole line may only be an inch or two wide, but in letters 14 or 18 points high.

Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-07 Thread Shaul Karl
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 11:05:21PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: Has anyone gotten Acrobat to work on Potato? No, but why not use ghostscript? (eg, gv). Package: acroread Version: 4.0-1 Do you mean the reader? Seems to work well here. -- System Information Debian Release: potato

Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 07:30:24 +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: The problem seems to be with a compressed or encrypted PDF format, which xpdf and gv have failed to read. If the problem is encryption, you need xpdf-i or gs-pdfencrypt (for gv), both of which are available from

Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-06 Thread Dylan Thurston
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 11:05:21PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: Has anyone gotten Acrobat to work on Potato? No, but why not use ghostscript? (eg, gv). --Dylan Thurston

Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
The problem seems to be with a compressed or encrypted PDF format, which xpdf and gv have failed to read. I believe there was a plugin type of package that would enable reading encrypted pdf in one of the above, but it wouldn't work for me. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of

Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-04 Thread Damon Muller
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 11:05:21PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis was heard to state: Is anyone using TeX/LaTeX to produce PDF? Can the PDF be understood by commonly available PDF readers? I run TeXLive, up to date, so My Milage May VaryTM). I cannot get anywhere. I have waited for a library

PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-03 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Has anyone gotten Acrobat to work on Potato? I have often if not always gotten a message that Acrobat on this system of mine (Potato) cannot grok\footnote{understand} the file, because it's a compressed(?) format .pdf. Is anyone using TeX/LaTeX to produce PDF? Can the PDF be understood by

Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-03 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone using TeX/LaTeX to produce PDF? Can the PDF be understood Yes. You can use pdf(la)tex which produces PDF directly (http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/), and dvipdfm, which uses the normal DVI output