On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 04:12  Uhr, Edmund Ronald wrote:

> It may be time to fix the PDF generator these folks are using -

eDocPrinter PDF Pro Ver 5.23 Build 1289-1289, printing from MS Word.

> The way formats evolve almost day by day is definitely a NEW feature of
> computing . Microsoft calls this "putting them on the treadmill".

Yes, Adobe has been doing this for quite a while with PDF, which is 
turning into a *complete* monster.  Most of the galloping featurits is 
completely gratuitous, many specified features don't even work in 
Adobe's own products, etc.

However, this time it isn't Adobe's fault.  The PDF generated by 
eDocPrinter (not an Adobe product) is simply buggy.  In PDF, each 
"object" at the structure level is syntactically delimited by

<n> <m> obj
...stuff..
endobj

For at least one object in this particular file (object 6, a font), the 
'endobj' is missing.  Acrobat apparently doesn't even notice, wheras 
both Apple's reader and mine barf on that.

Marcel

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