[plug] acrobat reader and printing

[Chris Darby]

MS word 8 is Word 97, ms word 9 is word 2000

-----Original Message-----
From: Shackleton, Kevin [mailto:kshackleton at agric.wa.gov.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 6 September 2000 9:15 AM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] acrobat reader and printing


What's MSWord 8?  Is that '97 or 2k?  My '97 doesn't allow you to create
pdfs, and since it's Adobe licensed stuff I'd have thought that no Word
would, unless it's done through having Acrobat (not just the reader)
installed which might add the 'save as' facility to Word.  In that case it
looks that the Adobe add-on for Word doesn't produce 'true' pdf the same as
creating the document in Acrobat without Word.  Maybe then you should search
the Adobe site for a bug fix or tell them the problem.  (This of course
means getting the lecturer to take on the update).

K.

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> From: 	BillK[SMTP:billk at iinet.net.au]
> Reply To: 	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Sent: 	Tuesday, 5 September 2000 21:08
> To: 	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: 	[plug] acrobat reader and printing
>
> Anybody have any experiance of viewing acrobat files made by exporting
> from MSword 8.0 (as pdf's of course).  One of the lecturers at Murdoch
> has decided to distibute his notes in this form (on a unix based
> subject!) and I am unable to print them under linux using acrobat
> reader.  I am also unable to use another program as they are password
> protected which means kghostview etc cannot get a look in!  My thoughts
> are that MSword is producing a slightly nonstandard file that upsets the
> print drivers when printing under Linux.  Other pdf's print and seem
> OK.  There was also the bug where you have to run X in 16bit mode (in my
> case) to enable acrobat to even startup! - seems a bit of a dud of a
> program under linux!
>
> And of course, they work flawlessly under acrobat reader on windows:(
>
> BillK
>