Re: [ARSCLIST] Triggering memories of the so-called "computer" tape of days gone by

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Uh, those versions are a lot more current than 4, which is the last non-toxic version for this 
computer. Good for those who can open it, for the rest of us it's yet another slap in the face from 
Adobe with their "universal" format that's not backwards-compatible.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Triggering memories of the so-called "computer" tape of days gone by


> Opened for me in Acrobat 6.0.6 and Acrobat Reader 7.0.9 -- certainly not the current versions by 
> any means. This under WinXP. Opened in Windows Explorer just by clicking on it, not downloading 
> and saving as a file on my server.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
> At 07:50 PM 2007-09-21, Tom Fine wrote:
> > I also got a fatal PDF crash. Must be saved in one of these past-version-hostile newest versions 
> > of PDF. Oh well. If anyone happens to re-save it as backward compatible PDF, I'd love to see a 
> > copy.
> >
> > "Universal" document format, indeed.
> >
> >
> > http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d071233r.pdf
>
> Richard L. Hess                   email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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