From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/33715 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Bowen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: printing problem Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:31:56 -0500 Message-ID: <7FF8DD19-8075-417E-9B8D-6B3DDE4AFFB1@princeton.edu> References: <092842C4-2715-42C4-8C20-4D8CD8423995@Princeton.EDU> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173204394 1325 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2007 18:06:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:06:34 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Mar 06 19:06:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HOe3I-0003ew-8m for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:06:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF0C32; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 19:01:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09792-05-3; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 19:01:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E57B51FCDB; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 19:01:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393E714 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 19:01:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09792-05-2 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 19:01:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net (vms048pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.48]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F6B1FA5F for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:27:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([72.82.250.165]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JEH009RNSP99Z50@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:31:57 -0600 (CST) In-reply-to: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:33715 Archived-At: Aditya=97 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=97it 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) > > Aditya > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context