Eric,

I have to answer "mostly no" to your question. 

I can open it with the Adobe reader on my Android tablet, but the pages are too 
blurred to read. It's a little (don’t take this literally) like an interlaced 
image when only the first half of the lines are displayed. I've never run into 
this before. 

When I open it with Documents to Go, each page is blank with a red X across it. 
I've run into occasional pages like this with large graphical PDF files (most 
often with one that's 77 Mb), but after waiting maybe 5 seconds the pages 
render fine. With your file, the pages are all like that and waiting doesn't 
help.

Whatever the problem, it's not likely to be the size of the file.

Mike
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric 
Lease Morgan
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 9:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [CODE4LIB] opening a pdf file

Are any of you able to open the following URL with an Android-based tablet 
device:

 http://dh.crc.nd.edu/sandbox/cyl/corpus/canarybird00schm.pdf

I have harvested about 60 PDF documents from the Internet Archive, and I 
created a rudimentary tablet-based interface to the collection here:

 http://dh.crc.nd.edu/sandbox/cyl/catalog/

Using my desktop machine I am able to download and view the PDF documents found 
in the "catalog", but I am unable to view them on my iPad nor my iPhone. Grrrr… 
I've tried many different PDF viewers on my iPad and iPhone, all to no avail.

I'm wondering whether or not this is a iOS thing or if there is something wrong 
with my PDF files.

Please tell me what your experience is.

-- 
Eric Morgan
University of Notre Dame

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