[18485] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.4.15: distill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Tue Nov 7 10:47:31 2000
Message-Id: <200011071547.KAA09131@geskekelud.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 10:47:23 -0500
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
System name: geskekelud.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.4.15 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgsix
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: fvwm2
What were you trying to do?
specify a level of compatibility at the command line
What's wrong:
neither the -noprefs flag nor the -compatlevel flag cause the
choice of
Enter Acrobat Distiller personal preferences file modification [1, 2, 3]
[1] use 3.0 new features
[2] use 2.1 compatibility
[3] leave compatibility undefined
to be skipped
What should have happened:
If I specify a preference at the command line, it shouldn't ask
me to interactively specify a preference
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
When you run distill, you get:
WARNING: This version of the Acrobat Distiller may not be fully
compatible with previous versions of Acrobat Exchange
and Acrobat Reader due to new functionality based on
recent PDF language additions. To ensure compatibility
with previous versions of Acrobat Exchange and Acrobat
Reader, the DEFAULT for compatibility can be set inside
your personal preference file. Setting this compatibility
switch, however, will result in the disabling of new
features of the Acrobat Distiller. The compatibility
switch may easily be overridden at run-time through the
specification of -compatlevel and in no way represents an
actual permanent loss of features for Acrobat Distiller.
NOTE: Running the Acrobat Distiller with the -noprefs option
will effectively disable the preference chosen below.
"May easily be overridden at runtime" and "will effectively disable"
seem to suggest that it won't ask the question, though if it really
means "will ask the question and ignore the answer" that should be
clarified.
echo "3" | distill filename.ps
will get around the issue.
-Laura
