My question possibly refers to conversion at a level lower than that of LyX, but
regardless:
I often find that my supervisor, who is an avid Windows XP user, cannot view
documents that I compile in LyX as PDF (this has gone on for over 2 years, PS
support needs additional software for Windows). I believe he uses the latest of
Adobe Acrobat Reader, but he might be on version 6, still. The PDF's that I
generate appear fine in both KGhostScript and Acrobat Reader 6, as well as
version 7 (both Fedora Core II and SuSE). The problems I have come across are
as follows:
* Images disappear arbitrarily (not all of them), sometimes re-appearing as the
viewer goes from one page to another.
* Document text appears 'out of boundary' completely so the body seems to have
slid outside.
I am somewhat worried as reviewers who receive my PDF's are more likely to be
Windows users and I do not want to give them the hassle or be led to knock my
head against the wall, trying to resolve Adobe's bug or, less likely, Windows
bugs. I may as well point out that, at my end, I have never had any problem
opening PDF's that had been originally generated under a Win32 environment.
Any idea what might be causing this? How can this be avoided? I have no Windows
machines to test this on and I see no reason why I should. Isn't the intention
of PDF's to remain consistent across platforms (among other things)? It is not
a Web page that I need test under different O/S's and browsers, so I am
somewhat upset with whoever is to blame for the deficiency. To me, it's almost
like an embarrassment to LaTeX when my supervisor sees corrupted PDF output.
Roy
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