On 10/15/05, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question possibly refers to conversion at a level lower than that of LyX, > but > regardless: > > I often find that my supervisor, who is an avid Windows XP user, cannot view > documents that I compile in LyX as PDF (this has gone on for over 2 years, PS > support needs additional software for Windows). I believe he uses the latest > of > Adobe Acrobat Reader, but he might be on version 6, still. The PDF's that I > generate appear fine in both KGhostScript and Acrobat Reader 6, as well as > version 7 (both Fedora Core II and SuSE). The problems I have come across are > as follows: > > * Images disappear arbitrarily (not all of them), sometimes re-appearing as > the > viewer goes from one page to another. > > * Document text appears 'out of boundary' completely so the body seems to have > slid outside. > > I am somewhat worried as reviewers who receive my PDF's are more likely to be > Windows users and I do not want to give them the hassle or be led to knock my > head against the wall, trying to resolve Adobe's bug or, less likely, Windows > bugs. I may as well point out that, at my end, I have never had any problem > opening PDF's that had been originally generated under a Win32 environment. > > Any idea what might be causing this? How can this be avoided? I have no > Windows > machines to test this on and I see no reason why I should. Isn't the intention > of PDF's to remain consistent across platforms (among other things)? It is not > a Web page that I need test under different O/S's and browsers, so I am > somewhat upset with whoever is to blame for the deficiency. To me, it's almost > like an embarrassment to LaTeX when my supervisor sees corrupted PDF output.
Roy, That is a very strange problem! I have very often viewed my pdf files (generated by LyX on Linux) on MS Windows computers, and systematically with no problem. One thing I would try first, would be to give a problematic pdf file to other MS Windows users to check whether the problem is specific to your supervisor's computer or not. Paul
