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

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

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?

>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.

Hans

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