Thanks for all the help, everyone. It ends up that the problem was not with the pdf file, but with the way I sent it. I was sending it as an attachment using Mutt (my mail agent in linux). For some reason, this creates a corrupt file.
Paul On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > I have creaed a latex file and converted it to PDF, and it won't open on > a friend's machine. > > In my preamble I have > > \usepackage mathptmx > > In order to run the conversion, I simply exported the document using > the file->export->PDF option. > > I have a linux box, and I can open the resulting PDF file with both xpdf > and acroread. In addtion, I mailed to the file across my apartment to my > girfriend's Macintosh, and the PDF file opens perfectly with Acrobat 5. > The file looks beautiful. > > However, my friend has a Windows box, and he reports this error: > > Adobe Acrobat 5.0 tells me that it cannot open it and that the "root object is >missing or invalid." > > I tried exporting the document as latex and running > > dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps infile.dvi > ps2pdf outfile.ps > > Again, this produced a perfectly working version for both my linux box > and for the Macintosh, but it would not open on the Windows machine. > > Any idea what is going on here? > > Thanks > > Paul > > > > > -- > > ************************ > *Paul Tremblay * > *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* > ************************ -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* ************************
