TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
Subject:Re: PDF - Linux problem From:Michael Collier <mcollier -at- arlut -dot- utexas -dot- edu> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com, silverspring9235 -at- go -dot- com Date:Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:07:12 -0500
Martha,
My experience with xpdf is that it will not display some complex
graphics properly.
There are situations where xpdf is the only PDF viewing option (such as
SCO Unix) and so there is not much you can do about it. But since Reader
is available for Linux, I think in this case it is incumbent on the user
to use the best viewer available to viewer your documents.
................................................................
Michael Collier, Technical Writer Office: N546
Information Systems Laboratory http://isl.arlut.utexas.edu/
Applied Research Laboratories: The University of Texas at Austin
Voice: 512-835-3408 e-mail: mcollier -at- arlut -dot- utexas -dot- edu
................................................................
>
> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:27:26 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Author: Martha Silverspring <silverspring9235 -at- go -dot- com>
>
> Subject: PDF - Linux problem
>
> Body: I use Win98. I'm converting a FrameMaker manual to PDF and
> sending it to a client who uses Linux.
> He says that some of the graphics and formatting don't display properly,
> and wonders if there is some kind of version problem. He says he's
> "using xpdf on Linux 6.2." He downloaded Adobe's Acroread for Linux, but
> wonders if there isn't a better way to resolve this so customers don't
> have to do that.
> What say you wise ones?
> Martha
