CAIB Working Scenario - Anyone been able to download this yet?

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(G EddieA95) wrote:

Alright, what will I need to get it successfully? Do I need to purchase
Acrobat 6?

No, Acrobat Reader 5 for Mac OS X and Linux, Acrobat Reader 6 for Mac
and Acrobat Reader 5 and 6 for WinXP all open the file just fine, as do
Apple Preview for OS X and Xpdf or Ghostview for Linux. It's pretty
much just a .pdf file, despite the warnings that Adobe pops up if you
open in Acrobat 5. The only thing odd about it (from my perspective) is
that when I print it from my iBook to my networked printer (connected to
my Linux box via CUPS), all the letter A's (upper or lower case) come
out as little graphical boxes! All the grapgics and every other
character print just fine. How weird is that? If I print it natively
(as a local file) from Acrobat Reader 5, Xpdf or Ghostview for Linux, no
problems. Must be some kind of networking glitch in either CUPS or my
printer driver.

Ahh, fun with networks . . . ;-)

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:23:00 -0500, Doug...
wrote:

In article ,
says...
Alright, what will I need to get it successfully? Do I need to purchase
Acrobat 6?

You shouldn't need to purchase anything. Acrobat 6 is available for free
(at least the parts you need) from Adobe.

....If you have Acrobat 5 loaded, it should either automatically
download the required updates. However, if you tell it "no", the
document will still open just fine.


OM

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free
(at least the parts you need) from Adobe.

...If you have Acrobat 5 loaded, it should either automatically
download the required updates. However, if you tell it "no", the
document will still open just fine.


OM

Thanks OM,

How do you get around the repeated DL aborts of the document???

OM wrote:
...If you have Acrobat 5 loaded, it should either automatically
download the required updates. However, if you tell it "no", the
document will still open just fine.

Unless you were to open the document in both Acrobat 5 and Acrobat 6 at
the same time and compare them page by page there's no easy way to tell
if you're missing anything.

With nothing else than intuition to go on, my guess is that there is no
difference. The document was probably produced with a recent version of
Acrobat - version 6 - and the warning is just friendly marketing-speak
for "we really want you to upgrade so our bottom line will benefit".

If they _really_ wanted to be helpful they should have added a warning
like "There's a really nifty graphic on page 32 that you won't be able
to view properly unless you upgrade to Acrobat 6". That the warning
only mentions the possibility that not everything will render properly
speaks volumes IMO.

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