[thelist] PDFs & Internet Explorer
D.Bruce Saurer
g1notami at zoominternet.net
Thu Dec 6 13:22:15 CST 2001
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Wallace" <susanhw at webcastle.com>
> <snip>
> >preinstalled on all of the company machines was showing blank documents
> >for some PDFs, but we couldn't find any correllation between PDF creation
> >settings and blank documents.
> >
> >Upgrading to the latest version of Acrobat Reader fixed it,
> It has been my experience that if you create a pdf with Acrobat version 5,
> and attempt to read it with Reader version 4 that you will either get a
> blank document, or the images in your document will not display. I have
not
> seen any way to save to an earlier version, so in our case, our Members
are
> required to have the latest version of the Reader.
<snip>
If you're using Distiller to create the .pdfs under "Job Options/General"
you can choose to create the .pdf with compatability back to v3.
This may be obvious but, are you transfering the files ftp-binary mode?
hth,
bruce
g1notami at zoominternet.net
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