Preview App And PostScript Conversion [was color laser printers]

[Scott Stevenson]

On May 5, 2007, at 1:56 PM, steve harley wrote:

> Preview (or rather the OS support in general) isn't really that  
> great at PDF either; i very often encounter PDFs that the OS cannot  
> display properly; not all of these are generated by Adobe apps;  
> this one has bedeviled me lately:
>
> <http://denvergov.org/Portals/193/documents/station%20area% 
> 20profiles/Alameda.pdf>
>
> even though it's PDF 1.3 (which supposedly Mac OS X fully  
> supports), much of the content is blank in Preview, but fine in  
> Reader or Acrobat Pro; i'd really rather use Preview for ready  
> reference because it is a much lighter weight tool

To be fair, I can generate any data I want and call it PDF 1.3. It's  
up to the writer to do things correctly. However, make sure to file a  
bug report and attach the file so someone can look at it.

For what it's worth, I see this in the console when opening this file:

encountered unexpected symbol `XN`'.
encountered unexpected symbol `F35OH'.
Choked on input: `)'.
ASCII85Decode: encountered unexpected EOF.
FlateDecode: decoding error.
encountered unexpected symbol `XN`'.
encountered unexpected symbol `F35OH'.
Choked on input: `)'.


     - Scott

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