On Friday, February 8, 2002, at 01:32  PM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> can at worst get pdfs that when viewed in Preview just show some
> randomly scattered symbols instead of nice formulas, and at best texts
> with wrong kerning after some ligatures. At one time you could produce
> kernel panics by just opening certain pdf files in Preview.

Preview.app sucks.  The idea behind it is great -- a simple barebones 
piece of software that can view any graphics file.  But I sometimes have 
problems getting it to open simple graphics files like JPEGs, and it 
doesn't open PNGs to the best of my knowledge... (more complaints)

> On the other hand, my experience dates back from the ancient times of
> OSX 10.0.x. It is quite possible that nobody has rechecked this problem
> in more recent times.

I believe this was discussed only a month ago, and bug reports have been 
submitted to Apple with no acknowledgement yet.

> Anyway, even with ghostscript6, there are bugs in OSX' pdf engine: Some
> people can't print correctly from Preview, although the screen output is
> correct, and have to use Acrobat Reader instead.

I have had this very problem when trying to print from Preview on 
occasion, it just prints out pages and pages of strange symbols at the 
top of the page when all I wanted was one IE-exported printout.  And why 
don't I just print out from IE?  For some reason it doesn't print 
correctly on our HP Color Laserjet 8550 DN printers.

Whatever, I hardly ever print anyways.


Erik

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Erik Price
Web Developer Temp
Media Lab, H.H. Brown
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