Adobe Acrobat 6.0 doesn't support tiled patterns?

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From: Chris Shearer Cooper
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:41

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I'm hand-rolling my own PDF files (long story, don't ask why), and
I've just started including tiled patterns.  They work great when I
load the PDF into Adobe Reader 8, but Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard
chokes with the extremely helpful message "A drawing error occurred."

I thought you could Control+Click on the OK button in the error box to
get details on the error, but it just closes the box like normal
clicking.  Is there any way to get better error information out of
Acrobat?

According to the reference manual, tiled patterns were introduced with
PDF 1.2 back in 1996, and Acrobat 6.0 came out in 2003, so it should
be able to handle them.

So what's the situation?
1) Acrobat 6.0 was buggy, all is good in 7.0, if Reader 8 accepts my
PDF then my PDF is good.
2) Reader 8 is sloppy and accepts PDF files that it really shouldn't,
it's my PDF that's at fault

Thanks,
Chris

p.s. One possibility ... I have 4 patterns, each pattern draws an
image, and since each pattern has its own resource object, all of the
images drawn by patterns are named "/img0" which should be fine since
they are in separate resource objects, right?

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