Extremely odd, doesn't make any sense, bizarre ... that's pretty much what I think.

The pdf that I took a picture of and the source that produced it are in a zip file at this address:

http://carneades.pomona.edu/test/badpdf-source.zip

If you're willing to have a look, that would be great.
It looks ok in my lunux box
with xpdf, acroread 9 , evince, kghostview


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luigi