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Pdf flyer for documentary
It's here. I used a new compression program that got it down to 110 kb or so, from what had been over a megabyte, but I'm not sure every pdf display program will show it. Take a look and let me know if it works with yours!
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The pdf works fine with the Linux PDF viewer 'xpdf', and presumably with other viewers (e.g. 'kpdf') based on the same pdf interpreter.
Under Ubuntu Linux 6.10 using the stock Evince 0.6.1 pdf viewer, the text is flawless but the images are so severely compressed that the faces range from horrible to unrecognizable. The text in the top right image is unreadable.
Works for me on Windows XP with Adobe Reader 7.0
The file displays fine in MacOS X 10.4 using Preview.app and Adobe Reader 6.
Since Evince under Ubuntu 6.10 had lousy image quality I installed xpdf but then the images didn't even show up at all. I booted Knoppix 3.9 and viewed it with Adobe Acrobat Viewer 4.0 but it said "unknown filter name" and didn't show the images at all. But that's old software so I booted Knoppix 5.1.1 from a CD, which is fresh from the beginning of this year, and viewed it with kpdf 0.5.5 which is based on xpdf. The images were visible but poor quality. So then I went to view it on a friend's Mac with Acrobat Profesional 6.0.5 (version from Mar 2006) and it looked OK, although some of the text in the upper right image still wasn't readable. So obviously my linux software isn't rendering the images properly.
I booted the CD of the latest version of Ubuntu (7.04) and it had the same blurry pictures. I think Ubuntu is the most common desktop distribution of linux now. A lot of linux users may have Adobe Reader installed and therefore might be able to view the images correctly. I won't install it though. There's no telling what kind of crud Adobe has hidden in their binary. The open source viewers usually work well enough.
Looks great to me Dave. The pics are a little blurry but they are thumbs.
The Randy Barnett quote seems to have picked up a stray word - maybe it's just me, too early in the morning.
Great work and much appreciated.
tg
It also works in Foxit.
Maybe produce two versions, one with higher-res graphics. I'm guessing these pix won't come out that well when the flyer is printed on paper. I can't read the text in that upper right graphic, either.
Thanks for all the hard work on the documentary.
Whoops. I said it looked fine with xpdf, but I didn't realize the images were supposed to look good. I tried it again with Acrobat, and they look much better.
Works great. The flyer is well presented, I have already contacted all of the area libraries and put requests in, along with several cable tv stations. I think I'll send out another letter with this flyer.