Michal--


On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 13:58 -0600, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:19:34PM -0400, douglas germann wrote:
> > Michal--
> > 
> > Thanks for the quick response.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:53 -0600, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:00:18PM -0400, douglas germann wrote:
> > > > Hi--
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Have a 16 page document. A couple days ago I entered changes on most of
> > > > the pages. Today I entered changes on page 11.
> > > 
> > > Have you checked that you are not editing linearized document?
> > > Could you send your document? 
> > 
> > Yes, it does not show up as linearized. Instead it shows various
> > versions in the box which would say linearized.
> 
> If I understand correctly, you have modified linearized (original)
> document and then modified it again. If this is a case, then it makes
> sense - modifying linearized documents can lead to unpredictable
> problems as they are not designed for incremental update used for saving
> changes by PDFedit. 

Nope, sorry I did not make this clear. The original was never reported
as linearized. Does that change any of your thoughts about this?
> 
> If you have linearized document (warning should be displayed during
> document loading and Revisions combo box should read Linearized
> documents).
> 
> Newer versions [*] and current CVS sets such a document as read-only so
> you even can't modify such a document.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Sorry, no, I cannot send it because it has confidential information in
> > it. I can send the blank but not sure that is going to help.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Now if I view the pdf in a document viewer, it shows only the changes on
> > > > page 11.
> > > 
> > > Which document viewer do you use? 
> > 
> > evince 2.22.2, xpdf, acrobat 6.0 standard. I just checked acrobat 8.0
> > reader and it shows what looks to be all edits!
> 
> acrobat reader can do really black-magic with documents (pdf generators
> can misuse some PDF format features and Adobe is trying their best to
> enable showing all such -read damaged- documents).
> 
> > 
> > Is that to be expected? Is there some trick I can use to get the other
> > programs to see everything?
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > If I go into pdfedit, I can see all the original edits in Revision 1;
> > > > and all today's edits on page 11 in Revision 3. But I cannot get them
> > > > all on one document.
> > > 
> > > Does this mean that all changes are not shown when you open document in
> > > the latest revision (without changing it)?
> > 
> > Yes, that is correct.
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > What do I need to do?
> > > 
> > > The best way would be reporting it in our bug tracker ;) It can be a bug
> > > or some non standard pdf.
> > 
> > If I find an extra half hour, I will try to recreate this without the
> > confidential info and post it there, too.
> 
> If you have modified linearized document, then there is no need to
> report this - because this behavior is expected. If you have the
> same/other problem also with delinearized (or not linearized original)
> then please upload original document and scenario.
> 
> > 
> > The document was created using Microsoft Word and printing to pdf, I
> > think.
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks!
> > > > 
> > > >                         :- Doug.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks for your help, Michal!
> > 
> >                     :- Doug.
> 
> [*] This was even tracked and fixed in
> http://pdfedit.petricek.net/bt/view.php?id=206 closed and released in
> PDFedit >=0.4.0
> 

Thanks, Michal!

                        :- Doug.


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