I have had lots of problems with various pdfs on Macintosh, and AFAIK, they all share the same underlying code, with the exception of Adobe's products.
I have Acrobat, and what I do is pass the offending pdf thru Acrobat (doing a Save As... or whatever they call it), and then it usually works fine. I can't remember the details, but there are ways that Apple's code can end up destroying a pdf when you save it, and certain pdfs I have found on the web reliably crash all readers based on Apple's code. It feels that Apple doesn't give a damn about this. I think I have submitted bug reports to Apple (long time ago now), but they don't ever let you know if they have read them. Adobe Acrobat really is bullet-proof, and the bullet you save should be used to kill its user interface. (Sorry, I'm not usually this opinionated, but I have a special sore spot that Adobe is irritating this week). A On Nov 29, 2012, at 14:20 , Ian Baker wrote: > Having some problems reading a PDFv1.5 file, both in Skim and Preview in > 10.6.8. > > Does Skim include it's own PDF parsing libraries, or does it use Mac system > libraries? > > The only other alternative that I can find is Adobe Reader, and I'd rather > avoid that. Any other suggestions? > > Thanks > > Ian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: > VERIFY Test and improve your parallel project with help from experts > and peers. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: VERIFY Test and improve your parallel project with help from experts and peers. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
