At 7:42 PM -0500 2/8/02, Erik Price wrote: >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)
I've opened many PNGs with Preview. > >>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 > >---- > >Erik Price >Web Developer Temp >Media Lab, H.H. Brown >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >_______________________________________________ >Fink-beginners mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners -- -------------------------------------- Don MacQueen Environmental Protection Department Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA, USA -------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
