[Zope] PDF Zope Book freakyness

[Jens Vagelpohl]

FWIW, back in my windows-"dark ages" i have always found that using 
PDF-files within internet explorer was a really bad thing to do. save 
it to your drive and open it with acrobat reader. that solved many a 
crash for me.

jens


On Tuesday, Sep 3, 2002, at 18:01 US/Eastern, Charlie Reiman wrote:

> Because, as I noted, it only happens with that file. That doesn't mean
> acrobat is not buggy but it does mean that file is special, special in 
> a bad
> way.
>
> I'm sure both components are in error in some way but I'm not likely 
> to have
> much influence with Adobe.
>
> BTW, it's not the Reader I'm talking about here. I have Reader 
> installed,
> sure, but it's Acrobat (sans 'Reader') that most likely adds the PDF
> Properties tab. That's why I imagine very few other folks have seen 
> this.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of 
>> Chris
>> McDonough
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 2:31 PM
>> To: Charlie Reiman; zope@zope.org
>> Subject: Re: [Zope] PDF Zope Book freakyness
>>
>>
>> How is this a bug in the book and not in your version of Acrobat?
>> The sins of the data should never be visited on the reader. ;-)
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Charlie Reiman" <creiman@kefta.com>
>> To: <zope@zope.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 3:14 PM
>> Subject: [Zope] PDF Zope Book freakyness
>>
>>
>>> I've got a very strange problem with the PDF version of the Zope
>> Book under
>>> Windows 2k. If I right click on it and select properties, the
>> properties
>>> dialog never appears. Instead the explorer starts sucking down all
>> my CPU
>>> cycles.
>>>
>>> This only happens with this book. The Admin guide shows its
>> properties just
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> I have Acrobat installed, which seems to supply explorer with a
>> PDF
>>> Properties tab under the standard properties tab. I'm guessing the
>> ZB PDF is
>>> malformed in some slight way and the PDF Property pane freaks out.
>>>
>>> Is anyone else seeing this? Can it be isolated and fixed for the
>> 2.6 book
>>> release (assuming it's not just me)?
>>>
>
>
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