Re: PDFs from Word show differently in Reader 9 or Acrobat Pro 9

[Leslie Turriff <jlturriff -at- centurytel -dot- net>]

On Wednesday 16 December 2009 11:49:36 McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com
> >
> > I have reason to use both methods to create PDFs (printing to a
> > postscript driver, and directly to Adobe). I've seen a lot of font and
> > alignment problems when distilling a .ps file. Haven't seen missing
> > borders yet.
>
> Didn't Adobe come up with PostScript originally?
> Shouldn't they, better than anybody, know how to work it?
>
> PostScript generated from the Adobe printer instance and then run through
> Adobe's own Distiller was supposed to be the cleanest, most reliable, and
> most bullet-proof way to get from an authoring tool to a PDF. I'm surprised
> they'd let that break, or let Acrobat Pro and Adobe Reader - at the same
> version number - get out of sync.
>
	Perhaps you should open a bug report with Adobe concerning this.  Both 
Acrobat Pro and Adobe Reader ought to render the same displayed pages.

	Also, it might be worthwhile to check to see if they produce the same 
hardcopy output.

Leslie
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