Re: Acroread Error (not) Message

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 07 January 2005 12:41 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
> In any case, the contents of the file seem viewable.  Perhaps something 
> wrong with the PDF library?  (Ethan?)  I think I just compiled the most 
> recent version of PDFlib-Lite.  (PDFlib-6.0.1p1-Linux.tar.gz)  Either
> 
> 1) PDF library does something acroread doesn't like.

The first line of the output from PDFlib is now 
  %PDF-1.5
It used to be
  %PDF-1.2

Whether PDFlib actually *uses* any of the features introduced since
1.2, that I don't know.

> 3) Acroread added an error message from 5.6 to 5.10 and complains where 
> it used to not know the difference... and Acroread 7.0 can actually 
> handle what is in PDF library, it's just that there's only a beta 
> version of Acroread 7.0 just yet.

The world has moved on, and Acroread for linux mostly hasn't.
Version 5.8 now spits out this warning message for a majority
of PDF files that I have to deal with each day from many sources.
Nevertheless, even files that truly do contains elements not fully
supported by 5.8 (e.g. fillable forms) still display and edit properly.

So it's annoying, but harmless.


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