[26231] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.3.16: Adobe Acrobat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Dec 10 17:46:13 2004
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To: rpigneri@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[26230] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:45:33 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: alexp@mit.edu
cc: bugs@mit.edu
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Hi Rocco,
You report:
>What were you trying to do?
> Read a 6.012 PDF.
>
>What's wrong:
> Adobe reports that there are some characters in the PDF that
> it cannot read. It then prints these characters as empty boxes.
>
>What should have happened:
> It should have read the PDF and printed it properly. It
> reports that it needs to be updated to read the PDF properly.
If you give me a file and location in it where you see this problem I can try
to reproduce it; however I doubt I'll be able to do anything to fix it. We're
running the latest available Acrobat readers for Sun and Linux and these are
one major release out of date now (this will become two shortly unless Adobe
updates them soon).
If Adobe were serious about supporting Linux and UNIX users we wouldn't be
up against this. I haven't seen any recent signs that they are.
Alex Prengel
MIT Academic Computing
UNIX Third Party Software Support
