On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 23:34, Margaret_Doll wrote: > I have discovered pdf files that are created by Alden Multimedia using > Acrobat distiller 4.05 for Windows are unprintable from unix, including > Redhat and Mac OS X systems. There are printable from Windows. > > If I look at the files in vi, I notice that the carriage, line feeds > show up as "^M". Various other features are similarly coded. pdf > files created on MacOS X do not contain the controls as "^M" and are > printable on all unix platforms. > > I thought there was a standard for pdf.
Its a proprietary format AFAIK make by Adobe, and I don't know if
they've given out the specs, or people have just reverse engineered it.
(someone else could probably provide more info here). They are binary
though, so I expect you would get a lot of unprintable characters. You
didn't transfer it from an ftp server in ASCII mode by any chance did
you?
Regards,
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Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm frequently appalled by the low regard you Earthmen have for life.
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