Re: xemacsweb: Document Acrobat Reader PDF bug

Hi Stephen, could you please try commiting this patch? Here is the command I would use (if it were my own patch) to submit it while sitting in .../xemacsweb: cvs -w -f -z3 -dadriana＠cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xemacs commit -m \ "xemacsweb: Document Acrobat Reader PDF bug \ <14821.45049.395433.328650(a)turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt;&quot; \ Documentation/ChangeLog Documentation/index.content Best regards, Adrian Stephen> Index: Documentation/ChangeLog Stephen> =================================================================== Stephen> RCS file: /cvsroot/xemacs/xemacsweb/Documentation/ChangeLog,v Stephen> retrieving revision 1.6 Stephen> diff -u -U0 -r1.6 ChangeLog Stephen> --- Documentation/ChangeLog 2000/08/20 21:50:41 1.6 Stephen> +++ Documentation/ChangeLog 2000/10/12 12:31:24 Stephen> ＠＠ -0,0 +1,4 ＠＠ Stephen> +2000-10-12 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; Stephen> + Stephen> + * index.content: Document Acrobat Reader bug. Stephen> + Stephen> Index: Documentation/index.content Stephen> =================================================================== Stephen> RCS file: /cvsroot/xemacs/xemacsweb/Documentation/index.content,v Stephen> retrieving revision 1.4 Stephen> diff -u -r1.4 index.content Stephen> --- Documentation/index.content 2000/08/19 13:33:55 1.4 Stephen> +++ Documentation/index.content 2000/10/12 12:09:27 Stephen> ＠＠ -5,9 +5,10 ＠＠ Stephen> %main% Stephen> <h1>XEmacs Documentation</h1> Stephen> - <p> The following documents are available in Postscript, DVI Stephen> - and PDF (with permuted indices) formats for both US Letter and Stephen> - A4 sized paper:</p> Stephen> + <p> The following documents are available in Postscript, Stephen> + DVI and <a href="#AcrobatBug">PDF</a> (with permuted Stephen> + indices) formats for both US Letter and A4 sized Stephen> + paper:</p> Stephen> <table> Stephen> <tbody><tr> Stephen> ＠＠ -61,6 +62,26 ＠＠ Stephen> download them directly from Stephen> <a href="ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/docs/">&lt;ftp://f... Stephen> + <h3><a name="AcrobatBug" id="AcrobatBug">PDF Problems?</a></h3> Stephen> + Stephen> + <p> Many versions of Adobe Acrobat are known to be Stephen> + incapable of reading certain standard-conformant PDF Stephen> + files. Adobe has verified this, but hasn't done Stephen> + anything about it. The standard free PDF readers Stephen> + (<em>Ghostscript</em>,<em>gv</em>, and <em>xpdf</em>) do Stephen> + not have these limitations. <em>Ghostscript</em>, at Stephen> + least, is available for the Windows platform. Stephen> + Stephen> + <p>Unfortunately, both versions of <em>Ghostscript</em> Stephen> + prior to about 6.21 (ie, still in beta) and current Stephen> + versions of <em>pdflatex</em> emit such files (some of Stephen> + the problems were fixed in Aladdin Ghostscript's 6.0 Stephen> + release). There's not much we can do about it until Stephen> + updated versions of PDF writing software that cater to Stephen> + Acrobat's idiosyncracies become generally available. In Stephen> + particular, <em>pdflatex</em>, which we use for Stephen> + generating hardcopy of Texinfo documents.</p> Stephen> + Stephen> <h3>Additional documentation</h3> Stephen> <p>More recent material can be found in the <a href="../FAQ">FAQ</a> Stephen> -- Stephen> University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Stephen> Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 Stephen> _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ Stephen> What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules." -- Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt;, http://www.xemacs.org