Error Opening PDF on PC (drawing error) tried good, best, etc

Are you e-mailing these files to people? I have had hit and miss with PC folks and I believe it is more due to their e-mail app than my PDF's. I have better luck sending them a link to the files which I have uploaded to my web site. This forces them to use their browser to get the file.

There are quite a few free sites out there. I use Yahoo and Geocities for my free web pages. The only drawbacks are a pop up message that most newer browser squelch anyway.

You might also want to make sure the .pdf suffix is on the file. Without it Windows does not recognize the file.

Kurt

In a Google search many of the drawing errors were memory related. What amount of ram do you have on the Windows beasts?

This update addresses some problems. Do you have it?

Acrobat 7.0.5 Update

Kurt

Just to make things clear, do you check the pdf on the mac with the preview application or with the Acrobat Reader ?

Hello musiccomposer,

I had problems with pre Mac OS X 10.4 and high compression settings for PDF. All images were displayed as negatives. I have created my own ColorSync filter for PDF creation and since than all went fine. What kind of display error do you get by viewing the PDFs?

Perhaps it will help to create the ColorSync filter. Here is a previous post with the tut how to create it: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1864792&#1864792.

Hi musiccomposer,

you should always keep images for digital publishment as small as possible. That means not publish only 72 dpi images. But most TIFFs are not compressed, so it is better to use PNGs or JPGs.

You have to open the package folder of your document and load the image file into you image editor by hand. Navigate in the Finder to the document icon and click on it while holding the control key down. Choose from the appearing menu the item "Show Package Content" and a new window with all the media files and the xml text document in it will appear. Now you can open the images into your image editor and save them as JPGs or PNGs. But don't save the images into the documents package folder. Delete the unused image objects in the document with Pages and insert the new ones into it or make the old images as placeholders and drop the new ones above them.

The other method to replace the images is to edit the "index.xml.gz" file with a text editor. For this, create a copy of the document to have a back-up. Close the document in Pages, replace the images in the document package folder. Be sure the converted images have exact the same names like the replaced images. Double-click the "indes.xml.gz" file. It will be unpacked to a normal "index.xml" file. Open this file in TextEdit or your preferred text editor and search and replace the file name endings with the new ones. Now you can open the document with the new images in Pages.

You don't have to work with two document versions to have a document for print and for screen. With the ColorSync filter method you can set the output resolution by using the two number fields titled "Resolution". So you can insert a high resolution image in the document and export one PDF with high resolution images and one PDF with low resolution images.

Of course you have to save the document on your disk drive to do the file type conversion I wrote in my post above. There is no way to order Pages to open an image in Photoshop and after the edit to update/replace the image.

How are you creating the tiff files? There is a mac and windows version of tiffs. Tiffs are not cross platform. Photoshop and PS Elements can save the files as a Windows tiff. You may get better success that way.

JPEGS are cross platform but you will lose quality if you use compression.

PNG format may be a better choice if you can convert the files.

Kurt