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Subject:Re: Acrobat 9.0 Professional text edits a no-go From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:Fox Cole <foxcole -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Tue, 12 May 2009 13:35:36 -0700
I downloaded that PDF with Firefox 3 and opened it in Acrobat 8.1
Standard. I got no errors and had no problem using the TouchUp Text
tool. So whatever problems you encountered must be on your end.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Fox Cole <foxcole -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Combs, Richard <richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com
>> wrote:
>
>> It opened fine in Firefox 3 w/ Acrobat Plug-In v7.00. I saved a copy to
>> my desktop and opened it with Acrobat Pro 7 -- no problems. I think the
>> problem must be on your end.
>
> I have Firefox 3 but download files directly; I don't open PDFs in the
> browser. Just a quirk of mine.
>
> As I said, I'm using Acrobat 9.1 and PDF-XChange Viewer 2.0.
>
>
>> What specifically do you mean by "threw errors"?
>
> In a hurry because I'm at work, I didn't copy down the exact message from
> each program---but they were about invalid file format, unsupported file
> type or damaged file. Could be something on my end is damaging it, behind my
> employer's firewall, virus checker and other security; but I would find that
> disturbing. It's a PDF file. It's not as though this is an uncommon file
> type.
>
> I'll open it later in an editor and check the file header... that's what
> usually causes those errors.
>
> Cheers!
> ---Fox
>
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