[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 22:19:59 +0100, Arjen Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Something is rotten, but is it the font or the viewer? > > > Acrobat Reader 5 seems to be somewhat dyslexic at times when it comes > to reading its own document format. The other day I tried to view a > PDF in Acrobat (on Win2k) and got a string of error message boxes > about colour specifications. When the file finally loaded, there were > black rectangles where the background colour for some paragraphs and > almost all the graphics should have been. > > The same file displayed perfectly in GSView. > > I've also had trouble printing certain PDFs in Acrobat -- a 1MB PDF > would generate a 10MB spool file and crash the printer driver so badly > that it took a restart for Windows to be able to find the printer > again. > > The same file printed perfectly in GSView. > > I suppose we can always hope that the next version of Acrobat will > sort these things out.
All in all Acrobat Reader 5 seems to be not a fully mature product version. I'm inclined to recommend a downgrade to version 4 for those wanting to view MusiXTeX scores with it. As stated in several postings a well functioning, alternative pdf viewer is gsview or, for unix users, gv. Bye -- Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark Phone: +45 89 49 53 01 - http://www.scandiatransplant.org _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
