Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-08 Thread Paul Tremblay
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-08 Thread Matej Cepl
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-08 Thread Paul Tremblay
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-08 Thread Matej Cepl
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-08 Thread Paul Tremblay
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.

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-08 Thread Matej Cepl
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-07 Thread rab
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-07 Thread rab
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-07 Thread rab
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-06 Thread Helge Hafting
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-06 Thread Dekel Tsur
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-06 Thread Diab Jerius
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-06 Thread Diab Jerius
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-06 Thread Helge Hafting
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-06 Thread Dekel Tsur
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-06 Thread Diab Jerius
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-06 Thread Diab Jerius
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-06 Thread Helge Hafting
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)

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-06 Thread Dekel Tsur
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-06 Thread Diab Jerius
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-06 Thread Diab Jerius
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

pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread John Coppens
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

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Diab Jerius
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
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

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
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

pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread John Coppens
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

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Diab Jerius
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
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

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
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

pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread John Coppens
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

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Diab Jerius
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
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

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
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 ?