Acrobat/Reader 4.0 is SO OLD at this point that all bets are off...Also, be aware that 4.0 had a LOT OF BUGS - so many that the 4.1 update wasn't distributed online, only via disk, because of the size (and equivalent bandwidth at the time).
Leonard On Mar 10, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Rick Roen wrote: > This is a follow up from a message I posted last week. After I > updated Adobe Reader to 8.1.2, I had several vendors say they were > unable to read the pdf purchase orders that my client was sending. > > > > These pdf’s are created using iTextSharp, opened in AR and then > emailed as an attachment using the AR menu. Nothing had changed in > the program, so I was suspicious about the AR version. > > > > The pdf opened with no problem on the clients machines, but they > all had AR v8.1.2 installed. The AR message was that the file was > “corrupt and could not be repaired”. Finally I got one of the > vendors to tell me his version number which was 4.0. I walked him > through an update to v8.1.2 and then he could read the pdf. > > > > So, it seems that updating Adobe Reader will solve the problem, > although this is difficult to do with technically inept vendors who > just want to get their order and are just suppliers to my client. > > > > My itextsharp.dll is v 4.0.3.0. Does itext refer to a version > dependent Adobe dll or something that causes this open failure? I > can’t figure out why else they are suddenly un-openable after an AR > version update. > > > > Regards, > > > > Rick > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
