[Bradford] PDF problems

hudsonjr at ntlworld.com hudsonjr at ntlworld.com
Fri May 15 12:57:47 UTC 2009


The colours are fine in KPDF and Gwenview.

The heading has a pattern of triangular links to the left and progressively deeper blue to the right.

So I suspect it is your document viewer,not where it was made.

John

---- David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk> wrote: 
> Can anyone help with this...?
> 
> I've had something similar a few times before. It's about viewing PDF's
> in 'Document Viewer' on Ubuntu 8.04 (but saw it on 7.10 as well)(I don't
> use any other PDF viewer...)
> 
> Sometimes they just don't look the way they should (colours can be
> wrong, text can be a different colour, or the thing just doesn't render
> right!)
> 
> I think it may be to do with where the PDF has been made. If it's been
> made on a Mac, and probably with Illustrator, these seem to be
> bothersome.
> 
> The PDF here: http://www.airevalleybikebus.org.uk/files/Bikebus_A4_airevalley1.pdf
>  has been built with the following:
> Adobe Illustrator CS3, using 
> Adobe PDF library 8.00
> 
> On a windows machine (with Adobe Reader) it's fine. 
> 
> On my machine the Blue heading has diagonal white stripes through it (it
> should be just a block of blue)
> 
> Can anyone else see the problem? Do you have any ideas about how to keep
> it consistent across machines?
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> David Carpenter
> 
> nornir
> 
> E: david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk
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> 
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