... >> in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf >> or documentviewer. >> >> But once in a while I get a pdf file that they cannot read and then I >> have to go to Windows to open it. >> >> What is so spectacular about these files that they cannot be read by the >> above mentioned programs? Is there another program that would read such >> a file? It's hard to tell, without having those files. PDF has many variants and options. I too have encountered some, though very few, which only open with Adobe Reader. As I recall, they were just PDF "shells" with instructions to load actual contents remotely... -- Sarunas Burdulis Systems Administrator, Dartmouth Mathematics math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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