Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:13:21PM -0500, rab wrote: What e-mail program are you using? I have found that Mozilla 1.0.1 (1.0.1-26 I386 rpm for Red Hat) corrupts outgoing Excel .xls spreadsheet files. Although the fact that they can be read on the Mac may point to a different problem. Try zipping the file and then sending. This works for me until this bug gets fixed. I am using Mutt 1.3x, on a linux box running Mandrake. I an unsure in the ways of Windows. Can they read zipped files? Can I use the gunzip program that comes with my Mandrake? Thanks Paul -- *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
Paul Tremblay wrote: I am using Mutt 1.3x, on a linux box running Mandrake. I an unsure in the ways of Windows. Can they read zipped files? Can I use the gunzip program that comes with my Mandrake? This is way off-topic (subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for this purpose), but the answer is that you have to distinguish between the two types of archives: - ``zipped files'' are usually meant files which are compressed with PkZip, WinZip, or Info-Zip (last is available for Linux too) and they extension .zip, - what you mean are gzipped files (which can compress just one file, so you use it usually together with tar) and which has extenzion .gz (or .tar.gz or .taz). The first one is the most supported format of archives on all platforms and the most popular programs dealing with it on Windows are WinZip, Windows Commander, and PkZip. That one is widely supported and the best way how to achieve compatibility. All .gz (or even .bz2) files are supported too, much they are much less common (in Windows world) and people usually do not know how to work with them. Moreover, given imperfectly working pipes on M$ platforms, people usually have to gunzip whole archive (which can lead to quite large archives) and than work with plain tarball. If you want to communicate with Windows world I would strongly suggest to install packages zip and unzip from your distribution and use .zip files. Matej -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Why should I travel, when I'm already there? -- Bostonian lady, when being asked why she never visited other places than Boston
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:13:21PM -0500, rab wrote: What e-mail program are you using? I have found that Mozilla 1.0.1 (1.0.1-26 I386 rpm for Red Hat) corrupts outgoing Excel .xls spreadsheet files. Although the fact that they can be read on the Mac may point to a different problem. Try zipping the file and then sending. This works for me until this bug gets fixed. I am using Mutt 1.3x, on a linux box running Mandrake. I an unsure in the ways of Windows. Can they read zipped files? Can I use the gunzip program that comes with my Mandrake? Thanks Paul -- *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
Paul Tremblay wrote: I am using Mutt 1.3x, on a linux box running Mandrake. I an unsure in the ways of Windows. Can they read zipped files? Can I use the gunzip program that comes with my Mandrake? This is way off-topic (subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for this purpose), but the answer is that you have to distinguish between the two types of archives: - ``zipped files'' are usually meant files which are compressed with PkZip, WinZip, or Info-Zip (last is available for Linux too) and they extension .zip, - what you mean are gzipped files (which can compress just one file, so you use it usually together with tar) and which has extenzion .gz (or .tar.gz or .taz). The first one is the most supported format of archives on all platforms and the most popular programs dealing with it on Windows are WinZip, Windows Commander, and PkZip. That one is widely supported and the best way how to achieve compatibility. All .gz (or even .bz2) files are supported too, much they are much less common (in Windows world) and people usually do not know how to work with them. Moreover, given imperfectly working pipes on M$ platforms, people usually have to gunzip whole archive (which can lead to quite large archives) and than work with plain tarball. If you want to communicate with Windows world I would strongly suggest to install packages zip and unzip from your distribution and use .zip files. Matej -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Why should I travel, when I'm already there? -- Bostonian lady, when being asked why she never visited other places than Boston
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:13:21PM -0500, rab wrote: > What e-mail program are you using? I have found that Mozilla 1.0.1 > (1.0.1-26 I386 rpm for Red Hat) corrupts outgoing Excel .xls spreadsheet > files. Although the fact that they can be read on the Mac may point to a > different problem. Try "zipping" the file and then sending. This works > for me until this bug gets fixed. > I am using Mutt 1.3x, on a linux box running Mandrake. I an unsure in the ways of Windows. Can they read zipped files? Can I use the gunzip program that comes with my Mandrake? Thanks Paul -- *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
Paul Tremblay wrote: > I am using Mutt 1.3x, on a linux box running Mandrake. I an unsure in > the ways of Windows. Can they read zipped files? Can I use the gunzip > program that comes with my Mandrake? This is way off-topic (subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for this purpose), but the answer is that you have to distinguish between the two types of archives: - ``zipped files'' are usually meant files which are compressed with PkZip, WinZip, or Info-Zip (last is available for Linux too) and they extension .zip, - what you mean are gzipped files (which can compress just one file, so you use it usually together with tar) and which has extenzion .gz (or .tar.gz or .taz). The first one is the most supported format of archives on all platforms and the most popular programs dealing with it on Windows are WinZip, Windows Commander, and PkZip. That one is widely supported and the best way how to achieve compatibility. All .gz (or even .bz2) files are supported too, much they are much less common (in Windows world) and people usually do not know how to work with them. Moreover, given imperfectly working pipes on M$ platforms, people usually have to gunzip whole archive (which can lead to quite large archives) and than work with plain tarball. If you want to communicate with Windows world I would strongly suggest to install packages zip and unzip from your distribution and use .zip files. Matej -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Why should I travel, when I'm already there? -- Bostonian lady, when being asked why she never visited other places than Boston
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
Paul Tremblay wrote: I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on a friend's machine. Any idea what is going on here? Thanks Paul What e-mail program are you using? I have found that Mozilla 1.0.1 (1.0.1-26 I386 rpm for Red Hat) corrupts outgoing Excel .xls spreadsheet files. Although the fact that they can be read on the Mac may point to a different problem. Try zipping the file and then sending. This works for me until this bug gets fixed. Rick B.
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
Paul Tremblay wrote: I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on a friend's machine. Any idea what is going on here? Thanks Paul What e-mail program are you using? I have found that Mozilla 1.0.1 (1.0.1-26 I386 rpm for Red Hat) corrupts outgoing Excel .xls spreadsheet files. Although the fact that they can be read on the Mac may point to a different problem. Try zipping the file and then sending. This works for me until this bug gets fixed. Rick B.
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
Paul Tremblay wrote: I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on a friend's machine. Any idea what is going on here? Thanks Paul What e-mail program are you using? I have found that Mozilla 1.0.1 (1.0.1-26 I386 rpm for Red Hat) corrupts outgoing Excel .xls spreadsheet files. Although the fact that they can be read on the Mac may point to a different problem. Try "zipping" the file and then sending. This works for me until this bug gets fixed. Rick B.
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
Paul Tremblay wrote: I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on a friend's machine. I have had similiar problems with export-pdf. Fortunately, lyx offer at least three ways of exporting pdf. The two others are export-PDF(dvipdfm) and export-PDF(pdflatex) My publisher uses windows and complained about the export-pdf files. Acrobat 5 on linux gave an error message too, but showed the file fine on screen anyway. pdflatex had similiar problems, but dvipdfm seems to work perfectly. At least I haven't got any complaints from them. I use dvipdfm from debian testing. Helge Hafting
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:05:03AM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:35:14AM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: I tried exporting the document as latex and running dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi ps2pdf outfile.ps Does using ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf help ? (or 'ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 outfile.ps' if you don't have ps2pdf13) No. I tried this, and my friend complained that the file came out scrambled. This seems a little strange. My PDF files open perfectly on my linux box, and on my girfriends' Macintosh, which uses Acrobat Reader 5. My friends with Acrobat Reader 5 cannot open the same file. Which version of Ghostscript ? How about ps2pdf13 -Ppdf -G0 ? What happens when you use the default latex fonts ?
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On 5 Dec, Paul Tremblay wrote:
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:36:17PM -0500, Diab Jerius wrote:
I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported
a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it
wasn't recognized (I couldn't get a more technical description than
that). I was able to view it with acroread under Linux.
I re-exported the PDF using the pslatex fonts and the document was
succesfully viewed on Windows.
Do you mean that you used the package pslatex ( \usepackage{pslatex})?
I thought this package was deprecated? (Which I guess doesn't matter for
now, if it works!) I am just curios so I can try this myself.
In the Layout-Document popup, under the Document tab,
choose Fonts: pslatex.
(in 1.1.6fix2)
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On 5 Dec, John Coppens wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:36:17 -0500 (EST) Diab Jerius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Dec, Paul Tremblay wrote: I have just done a search on the web and found that no one else has had this problem, or at least that I could find. I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it wasn't recognized (I couldn't get a more technical description than that). I was able to view it with acroread under Linux. Ok... 'It wasn't recognized'... Does this mean that the plug-in didn't get called in the browser? Or was it Reader that complained? In the first case, did you send the file with the correct extension? As Windows hides extension this can be difficult to establish. Well, as I said, that was as techinical a description as I was given. As I noted (see quoted message below), exporting using the pslatex fonts did work correctly. Nothing to do with extensions, etc. I'd suggest to ask the Windows users to _download_ the file (right click save as...) then try to open it explicitly with Acrobat. John I re-exported the PDF using the pslatex fonts and the document was succesfully viewed on Windows. Diab -- Diab Jerius Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden St, MS 70, Cambridge MA 02138 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] vox: 617 496 7575 fax: 617 495 7356
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
Paul Tremblay wrote: I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on a friend's machine. I have had similiar problems with export-pdf. Fortunately, lyx offer at least three ways of exporting pdf. The two others are export-PDF(dvipdfm) and export-PDF(pdflatex) My publisher uses windows and complained about the export-pdf files. Acrobat 5 on linux gave an error message too, but showed the file fine on screen anyway. pdflatex had similiar problems, but dvipdfm seems to work perfectly. At least I haven't got any complaints from them. I use dvipdfm from debian testing. Helge Hafting
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:05:03AM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:35:14AM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: I tried exporting the document as latex and running dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi ps2pdf outfile.ps Does using ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf help ? (or 'ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 outfile.ps' if you don't have ps2pdf13) No. I tried this, and my friend complained that the file came out scrambled. This seems a little strange. My PDF files open perfectly on my linux box, and on my girfriends' Macintosh, which uses Acrobat Reader 5. My friends with Acrobat Reader 5 cannot open the same file. Which version of Ghostscript ? How about ps2pdf13 -Ppdf -G0 ? What happens when you use the default latex fonts ?
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On 5 Dec, Paul Tremblay wrote:
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:36:17PM -0500, Diab Jerius wrote:
I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported
a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it
wasn't recognized (I couldn't get a more technical description than
that). I was able to view it with acroread under Linux.
I re-exported the PDF using the pslatex fonts and the document was
succesfully viewed on Windows.
Do you mean that you used the package pslatex ( \usepackage{pslatex})?
I thought this package was deprecated? (Which I guess doesn't matter for
now, if it works!) I am just curios so I can try this myself.
In the Layout-Document popup, under the Document tab,
choose Fonts: pslatex.
(in 1.1.6fix2)
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On 5 Dec, John Coppens wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:36:17 -0500 (EST) Diab Jerius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Dec, Paul Tremblay wrote: I have just done a search on the web and found that no one else has had this problem, or at least that I could find. I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it wasn't recognized (I couldn't get a more technical description than that). I was able to view it with acroread under Linux. Ok... 'It wasn't recognized'... Does this mean that the plug-in didn't get called in the browser? Or was it Reader that complained? In the first case, did you send the file with the correct extension? As Windows hides extension this can be difficult to establish. Well, as I said, that was as techinical a description as I was given. As I noted (see quoted message below), exporting using the pslatex fonts did work correctly. Nothing to do with extensions, etc. I'd suggest to ask the Windows users to _download_ the file (right click save as...) then try to open it explicitly with Acrobat. John I re-exported the PDF using the pslatex fonts and the document was succesfully viewed on Windows. Diab -- Diab Jerius Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden St, MS 70, Cambridge MA 02138 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] vox: 617 496 7575 fax: 617 495 7356
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
Paul Tremblay wrote: > > I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on > a friend's machine. I have had similiar problems with export->pdf. Fortunately, lyx offer at least three ways of exporting pdf. The two others are export->PDF(dvipdfm) and export->PDF(pdflatex) My publisher uses windows and complained about the export->pdf files. Acrobat 5 on linux gave an error message too, but showed the file fine on screen anyway. pdflatex had similiar problems, but dvipdfm seems to work perfectly. At least I haven't got any complaints from them. I use dvipdfm from debian testing. Helge Hafting
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:05:03AM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:35:14AM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > > I tried exporting the document as latex and running > > > > > > dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi > > > ps2pdf outfile.ps > > > > Does using ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf help ? > > (or 'ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 outfile.ps' if you don't have ps2pdf13) > > No. I tried this, and my friend complained that the file came out > scrambled. This seems a little strange. My PDF files open perfectly on > my linux box, and on my girfriends' Macintosh, which uses Acrobat Reader > 5. My friends with Acrobat Reader 5 cannot open the same file. Which version of Ghostscript ? How about ps2pdf13 -Ppdf -G0 ? What happens when you use the default latex fonts ?
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On 5 Dec, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:36:17PM -0500, Diab Jerius wrote:
>> I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported
>> a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it
>> wasn't recognized (I couldn't get a more technical description than
>> that). I was able to view it with acroread under Linux.
>>
>> I re-exported the PDF using the pslatex fonts and the document was
>> succesfully viewed on Windows.
>>
>
> Do you mean that you used the package pslatex ( \usepackage{pslatex})?
> I thought this package was deprecated? (Which I guess doesn't matter for
> now, if it works!) I am just curios so I can try this myself.
>
In the Layout->Document popup, under the Document tab,
choose Fonts: pslatex.
(in 1.1.6fix2)
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On 5 Dec, John Coppens wrote: > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:36:17 -0500 (EST) > Diab Jerius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 5 Dec, Paul Tremblay wrote: >> > I have just done a search on the web and found that no one else has had >> > this problem, or at least that I could find. >> >> I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported >> a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it >> wasn't recognized (I couldn't get a more technical description than >> that). I was able to view it with acroread under Linux. > > Ok... 'It wasn't recognized'... Does this mean that the plug-in didn't > get called in the browser? Or was it Reader that complained? > In the first case, did you send the file with the correct extension? > As Windows hides extension this can be difficult to establish. Well, as I said, that was as techinical a description as I was given. As I noted (see quoted message below), exporting using the pslatex fonts did work correctly. Nothing to do with extensions, etc. > > I'd suggest to ask the Windows users to _download_ the file (right > click & save as...) then try to open it explicitly with Acrobat. > > John > >> >> I re-exported the PDF using the pslatex fonts and the document was >> succesfully viewed on Windows. >> >> Diab >> -- Diab Jerius Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden St, MS 70, Cambridge MA 02138 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] vox: 617 496 7575 fax: 617 495 7356
pdf won't open on other platform
I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on a friend's machine. In my preamble I have \usepackage mathptmx In order to run the conversion, I simply exported the document using the file-export-PDF option. I have a linux box, and I can open the resulting PDF file with both xpdf and acroread. In addtion, I mailed to the file across my apartment to my girfriend's Macintosh, and the PDF file opens perfectly with Acrobat 5. The file looks beautiful. However, my friend has a Windows box, and he reports this error: Adobe Acrobat 5.0 tells me that it cannot open it and that the root object is missing or invalid. I tried exporting the document as latex and running dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi ps2pdf outfile.ps Again, this produced a perfectly working version for both my linux box and for the Macintosh, but it would not open on the Windows machine. Any idea what is going on here? Thanks Paul -- *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:23:31 -0500 Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea what is going on here? Thanks Paul Did you try to re-install Acrobat on the Windows machine? Even if you can open other pdfs, the executable or libraries can be damaged or incomplete. John
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:53:06PM -0300, John Coppens wrote:
Did you try to re-install Acrobat on the Windows machine? Even if you
can open other pdfs, the executable or libraries can be damaged or
incomplete.
I don't have access to the Windows machine. I have sent the file out to
people in our group. Two different people cannot open the file.
I did forget to mention that I used Adobe Avant Garde font for my title.
Avant Garde is a Postscript type 1 font. I would thing that at most
this would render the title in an ugly font.
I also tried pdflatex. When I sent this to my friend, he said that Adobe
Acrobat Reader opened, but he saw only a blank screen.
I have just done a search on the web and found that no one else has had
this problem, or at least that I could find.
I will try using \usepackage{times}. I will also get rid of the special
font for the title, and then see if he can open up that.
Thanks
Paul
--
*Paul Tremblay *
*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On 5 Dec, Paul Tremblay wrote: I have just done a search on the web and found that no one else has had this problem, or at least that I could find. I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it wasn't recognized (I couldn't get a more technical description than that). I was able to view it with acroread under Linux. I re-exported the PDF using the pslatex fonts and the document was succesfully viewed on Windows. Diab
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: I tried exporting the document as latex and running dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi ps2pdf outfile.ps Does using ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf help ? (or 'ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 outfile.ps' if you don't have ps2pdf13)
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:36:17PM -0500, Diab Jerius wrote:
I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported
a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it
wasn't recognized (I couldn't get a more technical description than
that). I was able to view it with acroread under Linux.
I re-exported the PDF using the pslatex fonts and the document was
succesfully viewed on Windows.
Do you mean that you used the package pslatex ( \usepackage{pslatex})?
I thought this package was deprecated? (Which I guess doesn't matter for
now, if it works!) I am just curios so I can try this myself.
Paul
--
*Paul Tremblay *
*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:35:14AM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: I tried exporting the document as latex and running dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi ps2pdf outfile.ps Does using ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf help ? (or 'ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 outfile.ps' if you don't have ps2pdf13) No. I tried this, and my friend complained that the file came out scrambled. This seems a little strange. My PDF files open perfectly on my linux box, and on my girfriends' Macintosh, which uses Acrobat Reader 5. My friends with Acrobat Reader 5 cannot open the same file. Thanks Paul -- *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
pdf won't open on other platform
I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on a friend's machine. In my preamble I have \usepackage mathptmx In order to run the conversion, I simply exported the document using the file-export-PDF option. I have a linux box, and I can open the resulting PDF file with both xpdf and acroread. In addtion, I mailed to the file across my apartment to my girfriend's Macintosh, and the PDF file opens perfectly with Acrobat 5. The file looks beautiful. However, my friend has a Windows box, and he reports this error: Adobe Acrobat 5.0 tells me that it cannot open it and that the root object is missing or invalid. I tried exporting the document as latex and running dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi ps2pdf outfile.ps Again, this produced a perfectly working version for both my linux box and for the Macintosh, but it would not open on the Windows machine. Any idea what is going on here? Thanks Paul -- *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:23:31 -0500 Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea what is going on here? Thanks Paul Did you try to re-install Acrobat on the Windows machine? Even if you can open other pdfs, the executable or libraries can be damaged or incomplete. John
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:53:06PM -0300, John Coppens wrote:
Did you try to re-install Acrobat on the Windows machine? Even if you
can open other pdfs, the executable or libraries can be damaged or
incomplete.
I don't have access to the Windows machine. I have sent the file out to
people in our group. Two different people cannot open the file.
I did forget to mention that I used Adobe Avant Garde font for my title.
Avant Garde is a Postscript type 1 font. I would thing that at most
this would render the title in an ugly font.
I also tried pdflatex. When I sent this to my friend, he said that Adobe
Acrobat Reader opened, but he saw only a blank screen.
I have just done a search on the web and found that no one else has had
this problem, or at least that I could find.
I will try using \usepackage{times}. I will also get rid of the special
font for the title, and then see if he can open up that.
Thanks
Paul
--
*Paul Tremblay *
*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On 5 Dec, Paul Tremblay wrote: I have just done a search on the web and found that no one else has had this problem, or at least that I could find. I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it wasn't recognized (I couldn't get a more technical description than that). I was able to view it with acroread under Linux. I re-exported the PDF using the pslatex fonts and the document was succesfully viewed on Windows. Diab
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: I tried exporting the document as latex and running dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi ps2pdf outfile.ps Does using ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf help ? (or 'ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 outfile.ps' if you don't have ps2pdf13)
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:36:17PM -0500, Diab Jerius wrote:
I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported
a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it
wasn't recognized (I couldn't get a more technical description than
that). I was able to view it with acroread under Linux.
I re-exported the PDF using the pslatex fonts and the document was
succesfully viewed on Windows.
Do you mean that you used the package pslatex ( \usepackage{pslatex})?
I thought this package was deprecated? (Which I guess doesn't matter for
now, if it works!) I am just curios so I can try this myself.
Paul
--
*Paul Tremblay *
*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:35:14AM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: I tried exporting the document as latex and running dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi ps2pdf outfile.ps Does using ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf help ? (or 'ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 outfile.ps' if you don't have ps2pdf13) No. I tried this, and my friend complained that the file came out scrambled. This seems a little strange. My PDF files open perfectly on my linux box, and on my girfriends' Macintosh, which uses Acrobat Reader 5. My friends with Acrobat Reader 5 cannot open the same file. Thanks Paul -- *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
pdf won't open on other platform
I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on a friend's machine. In my preamble I have \usepackage mathptmx In order to run the conversion, I simply exported the document using the file->export->PDF option. I have a linux box, and I can open the resulting PDF file with both xpdf and acroread. In addtion, I mailed to the file across my apartment to my girfriend's Macintosh, and the PDF file opens perfectly with Acrobat 5. The file looks beautiful. However, my friend has a Windows box, and he reports this error: Adobe Acrobat 5.0 tells me that it cannot open it and that the "root object is missing or invalid." I tried exporting the document as latex and running dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi ps2pdf outfile.ps Again, this produced a perfectly working version for both my linux box and for the Macintosh, but it would not open on the Windows machine. Any idea what is going on here? Thanks Paul -- *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:23:31 -0500 Paul Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any idea what is going on here? > > Thanks > > Paul > Did you try to re-install Acrobat on the Windows machine? Even if you can open other pdfs, the executable or libraries can be damaged or incomplete. John
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:53:06PM -0300, John Coppens wrote:
>
> Did you try to re-install Acrobat on the Windows machine? Even if you
> can open other pdfs, the executable or libraries can be damaged or
> incomplete.
>
I don't have access to the Windows machine. I have sent the file out to
people in our group. Two different people cannot open the file.
I did forget to mention that I used Adobe Avant Garde font for my title.
Avant Garde is a Postscript type 1 font. I would thing that at most
this would render the title in an ugly font.
I also tried pdflatex. When I sent this to my friend, he said that Adobe
Acrobat Reader opened, but he saw only a blank screen.
I have just done a search on the web and found that no one else has had
this problem, or at least that I could find.
I will try using \usepackage{times}. I will also get rid of the special
font for the title, and then see if he can open up that.
Thanks
Paul
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Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On 5 Dec, Paul Tremblay wrote: > I have just done a search on the web and found that no one else has had > this problem, or at least that I could find. I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it wasn't recognized (I couldn't get a more technical description than that). I was able to view it with acroread under Linux. I re-exported the PDF using the pslatex fonts and the document was succesfully viewed on Windows. Diab
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: > I tried exporting the document as latex and running > > dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi > ps2pdf outfile.ps Does using ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf help ? (or 'ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 outfile.ps' if you don't have ps2pdf13)
Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:36:17PM -0500, Diab Jerius wrote:
> I just had this experience last night, as a matter of fact. I exported
> a document to PDF, sent it off to a Windows user, who complained that it
> wasn't recognized (I couldn't get a more technical description than
> that). I was able to view it with acroread under Linux.
>
> I re-exported the PDF using the pslatex fonts and the document was
> succesfully viewed on Windows.
>
Do you mean that you used the package pslatex ( \usepackage{pslatex})?
I thought this package was deprecated? (Which I guess doesn't matter for
now, if it works!) I am just curios so I can try this myself.
Paul
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Re: pdf won't open on other platform
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:35:14AM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > I tried exporting the document as latex and running > > > > dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi > > ps2pdf outfile.ps > > Does using ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf help ? > (or 'ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 outfile.ps' if you don't have ps2pdf13) No. I tried this, and my friend complained that the file came out scrambled. This seems a little strange. My PDF files open perfectly on my linux box, and on my girfriends' Macintosh, which uses Acrobat Reader 5. My friends with Acrobat Reader 5 cannot open the same file. Thanks Paul -- *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
