Re: AbiWord PDFs created in Ubuntu not displaying properly on Mac OS X

From: Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon Apr 06 2009 - 23:05:57 CEST

Apple's Preview.app is broken. It's only a universal format if all of
the viewers implement all of the features.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Mark Patey <mjpatey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, Group-
>
> I'm experiencing a perplexing issue with PDFs I've created in AbiWord
> on Ubuntu 8.10.  They display just fine on Ubuntu and several Windows
> XP systems.  When opening them on a Mac (OS X), the table elements are
> retained, but the text will not display, with each character showing
> up as a little box.
>
> I always thought PDF was a universal format that would display
> everywhere identically, regardless of fonts installed, etc.  Any idea
> what could be causing this problem?
>
> Thanks for any insight you may have!
>
> -Mark
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