PDF woes

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:04:49 -0600
Mike Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:

> It must be something to do with your setup. I have no problem
> printing, here.
> 
> I'm not sure what you call them, but I'm seeing increasing numbers of
> these "fill-in-form" type of pdf files. In general, you can print the
> form, completed or otherwise, but you only can save the basic
> un-edited file. I get a warning when I attempt to save the file, that
> only the basic file will be saved, not the changes, and that I must
> purchase Adobe Acrobat in order to save an edited file.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Mike
> 

The problem I encountered today (trying to print a form from a
University financial aid site) reminded me of something I discovered
some time ago but had forgotten.  There are some PDF documents that
appear to work only with Acrobat Reader 6.0 (the windows version). As
long as the linux acroread  software remains stuck at 5.x, these
documents cannot be printed, because acroread 5.x generates bogus
postscript from these documents. Even if you print to a file first, the
document is not printable. I had to boot up my WinXP machine to print
the form I needed.

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Collins Richey - Denver area
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