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Article #2554Re: Adobe Reader 5.0/Windows 2000 Help
From: SaGS
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:53
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:53
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A possible cause for this are "xref streams" (and "object streams"), introduced in PDF 1.5. Reader 5 handles PDF versions up to 1.4. If the PDFs you have use "xref streams", then older readers won't be able to open them at all. [There also exist "hybrid ref PDFs", that can be opened with older readers but with reduced capabilities.] If you can put such a PDF somewhere publicly available and post a link here, I can take a look to see if it's this case. All that you can do is convert these PDFs to 1.4 or an earlyer version. I think Acrobat 6 and later (the full version, not the Reader) can do this. They will be larger, as the "xref/object streams" produce better compression, but compatible with older readers.
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