Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-07 Thread Brian Nelson
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:52:16PM -0800, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Stig Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > <...> > > > > Then try gv. It works better for me with pdf's than xpdf. It does not > > > complain about the document using Type 3

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:52:16PM -0800, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stig Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <...> > > Then try gv. It works better for me with pdf's than xpdf. It does not > > complain about the document using Type 3 fonts either, which usually is > > the error

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
On 04 Dec 2001 21:52:16 -0800, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stig Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > Hi Ben! > > > > > > Thanks for your reply! > > > > > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, ben wrote: > > > > > > > [...] > > > > i ag

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Stig Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > Hi Ben! > > > > Thanks for your reply! > > > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, ben wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > i agree. the purpose of a boycott is to disempower. adobe have shown that > > > they don't deserv

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-04 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi Ben! > > Thanks for your reply! > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, ben wrote: > > > [...] > > i agree. the purpose of a boycott is to disempower. adobe have shown that > > they don't deserve a position of any esteem in the free system that linux > > ex

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-03 Thread Alan Shutko
"Eric G. Miller" writes: > The PDF standard has a small number of built-in fonts (Courier, Times, > Helvetica, Zapf Dingbats, I think that's it). Of course, Acrobat Reader no longer ships with those fonts, and will substitute if you use them. Argh! -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:32:57 +0100 (CET), Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the file breaks > > everything, contact the author and tell them they've got busted PDFs. > > It probably isn't the file if it looks all right in acroread on a SuSE > system. I guess it has something to do wit

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Dec 2001, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi! > > When viewing PDFs on a Debian Potato system with Acrobat Reader 4.05, I > encounter crashes with the following error message: > > Exited with error code: 0x400e0009. > > Something similar happens to me when viewing PDFs from within Netscape > 4

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-03 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Ben! Thanks for your reply! On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, ben wrote: > [...] > i agree. the purpose of a boycott is to disempower. adobe have shown that > they don't deserve a position of any esteem in the free system that linux > exemplifies. Would love to do that if xpdf worked as nice as as a *w

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-03 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Karsten! Thanks for your quick reply! On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Try the free software replacements (and boycott the programmer > persecuter Adobe in the process) xpdf or gv. Ok. I tried acroread 4.05 on a SuSE system and it worked just fine. Concerning xpdf I got to say

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-02 Thread ben
On Sunday 02 December 2001 08:09 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > Any disuse of acroread is a purely meta-boycott: nobody pays adobe for > > that software. > > Or just a preference for free-as-in-liberty software, which acroread is > not. > > Craig i agree. the purpose of a b

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-02 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Any disuse of acroread is a purely meta-boycott: nobody pays adobe for > that software. Or just a preference for free-as-in-liberty software, which acroread is not. Craig

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-02 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 19:59, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Try the free software replacements (and boycott the programmer > persecuter Adobe in the process) xpdf or gv. If the file breaks > everything, contact the author and tell them they've got busted PDFs. Its terribly unfortunate that the free

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:26:46PM +0100, Holger Rauch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > When viewing PDFs on a Debian Potato system with Acrobat Reader 4.05, I > encounter crashes with the following error message: > > Exited with error code: 0x400e0009. > > Something similar happens t

acroread crashes

2001-12-02 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! When viewing PDFs on a Debian Potato system with Acrobat Reader 4.05, I encounter crashes with the following error message: Exited with error code: 0x400e0009. Something similar happens to me when viewing PDFs from within Netscape 4.78 using either the nppdf.so plugin or Acrobat Read