In the wee hour of 02:07 PM 6/16/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] bequeathed
such tales as these:
>Keith and others,
>
>There seems to be a MUCH bigger problem with version 5 than this I found
>the other day.
>
>I downloaded the new version 5.0 reader for use on my system at work,
>which is running Win2K. When I tried to open any number of PDFs located
>on one of our servers, which were NEVER a problem with earlier versions
>of reader, in every case, I got the the same error message, that the PDF
>either was incorrect format or corrupted.
>
>After this, I called Adobe's support service, trying to figure this one
>out, since, again, they were never a problem previously in being able to
>read them (they are PDFs dealing with each type of printer connected
>through the Novell Network, for configuration issues that people
>connected to the network might be dealing with - somewhere between 50
>and 100 PDFs).
>
>The answer I got from customer service was quite surprising - she told
>me that the new version of the reader, version 5.0, has problems in
>various cases of reading and displaying PDFs created with earlier
>versions of Acrobat. And there does not seem to be any rhyme or reason
>for when the problem shows up. So one PDF will open and display
>perfectly while another will end up giving this error message.
>
>What is interesting is that I posted a message about this issue on the
>reader forum on Adobe's support area, and did NOT receive one response
>from anyone to this issue, either from Adobe's people or other users.
>Since it is known problem, am surprised that Adobe would not have
>already released some kind of update to the problem to take care of the
>issue.
>
>So now I have to have both version 4 and 5 readers on my system at work,
>while I will need the version 4 reader as well as the full version 5
>package on my home system - BAH AND HUMBUB!!!!
>
>Ralph
They still haven't corrected this bug yet? This same bug has existed since
the release of version 4 three years ago. Back then, version 3 readers
might have a problem with files created with version 4 sometimes. It was
intermittent at best and just a royal pain the rest of the time. Plus the
version 5 full is a giant resource hog, it draws about 30 mbs of memory,
more when running the distiller too. I went back to 4 at least until they
can release some really good fixes for it.
Peter Kaulback
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