Jane Hakes wrote:Jan,Legacy, on the other hand, can't be expected to jump in and embrace every release of new PDF engines when undoubtedly their customer base is going to still be using Acrobat Reader v. 6 or perhaps even older.
You are correct. Human nature seems to be that people always want to find someone else to blame for their problems. Legacy is at fault because they didn't immediately release an update to accommodate the Adobe changes. Adobe is at fault because they had the audacity to change their data structure.
You both are making an assumption that seems wildly unwarranted to me. Do you really believe that Adobe has released a reader that requires changes to the pdf creation process? If that were true, what about the billions of PDF files that already exist in the world? Do they all need to be recreated because they were written with previous versions of a PDF generator?
And, Ron, where did you get your information about Adobe changing its data structure?
The simple truth is that Legacy produces PDF files that are non-conformant. Maybe the Legacy PDF files always have had errors, I don't know. Luckily, previous versions of Adobe reader managed to display the errant files from Legacy. However, many Legacy users have had trouble having their PDF files printed at Kinkos. Legacy PDF files have been shown to fail a verification suite. Legacy PDF files fail to display properly using Reader v7.
This is a pre-existing Legacy problem that has gone unaddressed for some time and has now become rather critical.
You drive a truck but never pay much attention to how tall it is because it always fits under the bridges. One fall, your co-driver points out that the truck is 14' 0" and a bridge on your route has a prominent warning sign that says clearance 13' 9". However, you know that you fit fine because you drive that route often. Next spring the road is repaved, which pleases you until you drive under the bridge and find, in a rather jarring manner, that you no longer fit even though all the 13' 9" trucks still fit just fine.
Dennis Nichols
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