On 5 Jul 2006 at 13:36, A-NO-NE Music wrote:

> David W. Fenton / 2006/07/04 / 05:01 PM wrote:
> 
> >A file is a file. You should be able to tell Adobe Acrobat Reader to
> >attempt to open any file, no matter what the format, and it should
> >attempt it (and give an error message if it's not a PDF file).
> 
> If I remember correctly, PDF uses special binary header.  Any error on
> the header ends up in error that Acrobat will identify it as
> corrupted. Did we not have this cross platform problem common between
> some Acrobat versions a long while ago?  I don't remember the detail,
> but it was something to do with header identifying compression algo.

So, this is a problem with the Mac version of Acrobat? Or the built-
in PDF creator in OS X?

Why in the world would an app on its native platform create files 
that are not cross-platform compatible when the whole purpose of the 
files is universal portability? Sounds like somebody screwed up!

-- 
David W. Fenton                    http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates       http://dfenton.com/DFA/

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