Re: Multiplatform PDFs

[Marcus Streets <marcus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeanette Feldhousen wrote:
> 
> We ship PDFs and a full text search index generated with Catalog
> on HP-UX 10.20, Solaris 2.5 and Windows NT 4.0. The only problem
> that I can think of off hand is that the files generated by Catalog
> have uppercase names by default, and we had to write a script to
> convert the names to lower case before they would work on UNIX.
> It really seems to be pretty problem-free (now watch--tomorrow
> I'll get a call from a customer that they can't read any of our
> PDFs on some platform!)

I have had problems with embedded truetype fonts on Unix readers
In particular Letter Gothic.
Therefore I decided not to use it.
Aside from that I have not had any reported problems, at least not ones
relating to the PDF the content is another matter.
Marcus


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