How can I read PDFs created on a Windows PC from my Power Mac?
I have PDF documents that were produced on a Windows PC using Adobe
Version 5.0. I want to be able to read them on a Power Mac using Adobe
Professional 6.0, but it won't work. Any advice? I have PDF documents that were
produced on a Windows PC using Adobe Version 5.0. I want to be able to read them
on a Power Mac using Adobe Professional 6.0, but it won't work. Any advice?
--Ron
When you
save them on your PC, select pdf as well as type .pdf in the name field. I know
this works when going from Mac to PC.--RYAHOD
Did you use Acrobat distiller or
Acrobat printer? Did you embed fonts? Did you check security preferences on your
PC version. (The Mac doesn't care what you name your pdf, only your PC does.)
--Robert Stanley
As an addendum, although it's
correct that a Mac doesn't care what name you use for a file, it does have its
own way of identifying what type a file is. There is a data-fork file and a
resource-fork file that is invisible and not created when you save a file
on a PC. If the file is showing up as a plain text or a generic file on your
Mac, it means that even though the file is a PDF and is a cross-platform
file format, the Mac can't recognize it without the fork files. As a quick fix, open
each PDF file on the Mac FROM WITHIN Acrobat and resave the file with a
.pdf extension to make it compatible on both platforms. –Edward
Becker
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