Computers

[yrieithydd]

I just decided to print something out because it would be easier too read. It is a pdf document produced with Miτεχ and dvipdfm. I have never printed it before although my supervisor has printed earlier versions of the document and given me copies. The title page printed fine (but it doesn't say much). After that much of it has come out of outline boxes with the odd cross and one black square. There seems little logic to what is boxes and what is normal. The boxes all represent a character. The black square is a macron, but I can't see what the crosses should be. Oddley in the body it's italic or bold which has come out whereas in the footnotes these are what generally hasn't come out (although one italicised word which appears twice and two others work. It is not to do with the .tex file as far as I can tell as the same word in affected by the same command works once and not a second time in the same footnote).

I admit I told it to do odd pages (which it has done). Interestingly my attempts to print it .ps (to see if it my printer driver) have resulted in only the first page.

I am confused!

Comments

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

I've worked the crosses out - they're the ff ligature (which interestingly if one copies from a pdf and pastes into Mulberry comes out as a capital R).

[emperor]

if you want us to have a look at the .tex, I could attempt to do so...

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I'm not sure whether the problem is at the level of the tex or the level of the pdf. I'll experiment and see what happens if I print from the dvi. It's fine and the pdf looks ok on the screen. I think I'll blame my version of adobe acrobat.

I've mailed you the pdf anyway.

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

Having looked at about acrobat, I'm using 5.1 (17/09/02). This could be the problem!

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

Having upgrade my acrobat reader, I've just tried printing it again with no problems! Which serves me right for not having upgraded acrobat for a while. However, there's a reason for that - they've changed the search interface (rather than floating it takes up a side bar) and I don't like it!