Re: pdf not read by acrobat ?!?!?

["A. Villaveces" <avillave@007mundo.com>]

Sorry for the long delay, Hans, Hraban and you all! I was away from
Bogota, in
a place with no really workable connection for some days! Here are some
answers,
questions and followup.

Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
> At 03:58 PM 7/17/2001 -0500, A. Villaveces wrote:
> 
> >I have produced recently a very nice document with ConTeXt, loaded with
> >graphics. I always open it locally with xpdf, which renders it
> >perfectly. I tried to open the same document under Acrobat Reader, and
> >for some reason the reader claims there is some error with the document.
> >
> >This only happens with this new, ConTeXt-produced document (otherwise
> >Acrobat works normally). And the document seems ok (as xpdf can read it
> >perfectly).
> 
> which version of pdftex / context / acrobat?

pdftex: 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1)
context: 2000.1.31 fmt: 2001.7.10
acrobat: 4.2

> 
> >Has anyone of you had this situation? Does anyone know what to do in
> >this case?
> >
> >(One reason I need to be able to open it is for quality printing: the
> >place where they have the good printers is windows-based, so I want them
> >to be able to open the file with Acrobat... unless anyone suggests some
> >other option).
> 
> There are problems with files produced by pdftex and acrobat 5.
> 
> (1) widgets, i adapted context
> (2) fonts, tom kacvinski adapted pdftex
> 
> although both are more adobe/acrobat problems, pdftex is now okay. The font
> problem had to do with the new cool type dll's not supporting subsetted
> encoding arrays in the proper way [and more]. I've run quite some
> complicated tests [most of this happened off line between
> fabrice/tom/me/few people] with many fonts and it seems to work ok. Another
> improvement of pdftex is that pdf inclusion is more efficient. [btw, in
> general, if you use the context figure base stuff mentioned on our site,
> figure inclusion is much faster anyway]. This means that page imposition
> [texexec etc] is very efficient now. This version of pdftex will go on
> texlive, and the windows version can be found at the fptex site.
> 
> So, if you have problems: take the latest context, pdftex and it should work.

Are there easy patches to the latest context and pdftex? How different
are they
from the versions I have? I would like to avoid having to rebuild from
the very base tetex!

Followup: after many other attempts (with the same system), I produced
later on a document readable by Acrobat. I cannot tell what essential
difference there was. I just kept working on the context document, until
at some point (days later) I tried again to visualize the new version on
Acrobat, and it worked! (it did not claim the file was corrupt as
before).

I have, however, a few other questions on context, but for the sake of
clarity, I prefer to ask them in a separate message.

Thanks for your help!

Andres Villaveces