RE: [Flightgear-devel] getstart.pdf

[Paul R. D. <pau...@ve...>]

> > When opening the PDF version of the FlightGear Getting Started
> > Manual using
> > the latest Adobe Acrobat (5.0.1), I get the error,
> >
> > "There was an error processing a page.  The page contents object has the
> > wrong type."
> >
> > Other .pdf documents open up with no problem, including the FG Short
> > Reference Guide (FGShortRef.pdf).
>
> Great.
>
> I use Acrobat Reader 4.0 and I just confirmed that the version on
> the server
> works perfectly for me. Anyone else having problems? Are you sure
> there were
> no problmems with the download (size is 1.35 MB)...just in case?
>
> As an alternative, I can offer to send you the file again via mail or make
> you a Postscript version.
>
> On the other hand I should keep an eye on this. Should Adobe have
> made some
> "improvement" making it incompatible?

Hi Michael,

Thanks, but you don't need to send any files to me.

The problem only happens with Acrobat reader 5.0.1.  I tried opening
getstart.pdf with Acrobat 4.0 on a friend's machine and it worked fine (as
you confirmed), so download size is not the problem.

I've tried 5.0.1 on two machines (WinNT and Win2000) and getstart.pdf will
not open on either one.  Other .pdf files open up fine, even very large
ones.

No doubt other users are or will be using Acrobat Reader 5.0+, so yes it
might be a good idea to check on this.

Cheers,

Paul

Paul R. Deppe
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