Hi Scott, Here you can find some references: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64448/how-to-overcome-acrobat-reader-error-131-with-a-pdflatex-doc https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/error-problem-reading-document-131.html
Last reference is from Adobe itself, but the solution is somewhat cryptic as I am using Reader DC and couldn't find those menus. It seems that the compressed PDF will sometimes trigger this error in Adobe Reader. I used pdftk to uncompress my file and it could be opened by Reader. I also removed a couple of PDFs (created the same way as the remaining in the document) and even compressed it could be opened by Reader. I use Sumatra, thus, I didn't know of this problem until I shared some slides with my students who used Adobe Reader. One of them used Chrome's PDF plug-in to open it, then printed it as PDF and the problem was removed. In Ubuntu, Ocular could open it without a hassle. I don't know if Apple's Preview could do it. I hope this info is enough to track the error. Regards, Julio. ------------------------------------------------- Julio Rojas [email protected] On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:11:49AM -0300, Julio Rojas wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I have read that in order to avoid the dreaded error 131 that Adobe > Reader > > shows when opening some files generated with pdfLaTeX, the > > \pdfminorversion=4 flag should be added before loading Beamer. How can I > do > > this in Lyx? > > > > Thanks in advance. Regards, > > ------------------------------------------------- > > Julio Rojas > > [email protected] > > Hi Julio, > > I have not heard about this problem. Can you give us some references? > Can you reproduce it yourself? If so, I would be very curious if you > could reproduce it with SumatraPDF. I am not suggesting you switch, I'm > just wondering if other PDF readaers suffer from the problem. > I'm also curious if there is a bug report. Does Adobe recognize there is > a problem and intend to fix it? If you find a bug report, please give > the URL. > > If no one else answer with a fix for setting \pdfminorversion=4, I will > look into it. > > Best, > > Scott >
