Aditya— I am using character protrusion. So far as printing goes, TexShop still prints long files with protrusion turned on and still fails with the question file when I turn it off. But, as for not being able to open the file, I will check to see what the recipient is using to read it. That is a good tip. Many thanks. Alan On Mar 6, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Alan Bowen wrote:
Though I can print the thing, the problem is still somewhat pressing. I sent the file to two people who usually have no difficulty with my PDFs. But this time one could not open the file—it was reported as damaged.
Do you by any chance use character protrusion. I had trouble with character protrusion with pdf-1.4. It works correctly on my computer (WinXP+Acrobat 7.0) but, I could not open the file on Solaris+Acroread 5.0. Acroread 7.0 opened the file correctly on Solaris, so I assumed that acroread 5.0 does not support the new method of character protrusion of pdftex.
I sent the file to someone on a Mac. If they double clicked on the file, acrobat 7 reported the file was damaged. If they opened the file from File->Open menu, it opened correctly. Since it was not my computer, and the file was opening correctly, I assumed it was a problem with the configuration on the Mac. (As you can see, I am very confident that pdftex is doing the right thing :). Disable character protrusion got rid of the problem with acroread 5.0 and Mac, so I did not worry about it more (there were other things to worry about, like the content of the pdf)
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