On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 05:19:53PM -0300, Julio Rojas wrote: > 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]
Thanks for the details and the references, Julio. This is great information to have in case someone else experiences the problem. I took a look at how to set /pdfminorversion=4. It seems this could be helpful: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/78248/how-to-force-pdfminorversion-globally Maybe you are hesitant to set it globally? Scott > 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 > >
