On 10/18/07, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just downloaded and installed AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i486.rpm.
>
> First anomaly, but not the one I intended to write about, is that it
> identifies itself in its Help screen as Adobe Reader 7.0. The file
> /opt/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/AcroVersion says 8.1.1
>
> Real anomaly, which also happens with with its predecessor Acrobat Reader 7.
>
> Print a page which was created iin letter format (8.5x11). Do not
> check "expand small" or "shrink oversize". See by looking at
> printed output or by saving to a file and examining the code in the PS
> file that the output is placed on an A4-size sheet, which is about 0.7
> inches longer than letter size, so the printing is displaced 0.7
> inches upward on the page.
>
> Now go to the File -> Print Setup page, see the paper size as: Width
> 8.50 Height 11.00.
> Delete the 11.00, type in 11.00. Check OK. Now print again, and find
> that the output is properly placed on the letter-size paper, or see
> that the PS file is different in the code that determines the
> placement of the image on the page. The gory details:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ diff print0.ps print1.ps
> 4c4
> < %%CreationDate: 20:11:12 10/18/07
> ---
> > %%CreationDate: 20:11:39 10/18/07
> 3276c3276
> < 0.0 0.0 595.0 842.0 0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0 0 0 false false false false
> PDF begin PDFVars begin ASR end end
> ---
> > 0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0 0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0 0 0 false false false false PDF
> > begin PDFVars begin ASR end end
>
> Note the numbers 595 842 are A4 size, and 612 792 are letter size, in PS
> points.
>
> Acroread 5 did not have this problem.
>
> It has taken me many months to figure out why sometimes printed PDF
> was placed wrong on the page.
Disregard some of the above. It turns out that the icon that Adobe
Reader 8 placed on the Desktop was pointing to Acroread 7. So the
placement on the page problem is still an Acroread 7 problem.
Need to do more experimenting with Reader 8. The GUI user interface
is different, and out of a small sample, the PostScript it produces is
not openable by GhostScript.
carl
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