Greetings, Just got through writing a 10 page doc(fanciest thing is a 8x5 table), exported it as a pdf(I believe i'm embedding the type1 font Computer Modern.) Total size is about 150kb.
Every person who has tried the document on a windows system reports the same thing; hangs the box and then(usually) loads eventually. (MacOS -seems- to be unaffected, haven't been able to test it extensively as I only have one MacOS box here, but a friend was able to load the PDF and did not complain about load times etc; however, he's also been doing a lot of work with PDFs from LaTeX output; see below.) One example: -Acrobat Reader gets launched -System locks up(an XP system on a 800mhz laptop, here on the same network, hung for 20 seconds, not even ctrl-alt-del) -Acrobat pops up a "I'm going to check for updates!" window(dismiss) -Acrobat then loads the PDF in a browser window(appears very quickly.) This happens when I point them directly to the PDF in a URL, or when I send them to an HTML file and have them click on the link to the PDF. If they come back and reload, the PDF comes up instantly. Bandwidth is not an issue; this occurs on systems on a local network too. I suspect Acrobat is doing some funky thing because of the embedded font and use through the browser; it is like it does a one-time setup thing, and then poof, everything works fine. Has anyone come across this? I wanted the look of Computer Modern, but this is absurd if Acrobat chokes on it; users generally don't like their systems locking for a half minute. And, incidentally, this doesn't happen on -my- win2k system, but to be honest, the first time I launched it was straight off a network volume, not via a browser. Anyone have any ideas? If you email me privately, I'll be happy to provide the URL, but i don't want to swamp my connection(only 32KB/sec outgoing) with a zillion people on the list checking it out :-) B -- ---- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin http://www.users.cloud9.net/~brett/ http://www.users.cloud9.net/~brett/bdikeman.asc (PGP Public Key)
