The AM Forum

Passing this along, from the Amrad mail group.

http://www.midcom-inc.com/Tech/pdf/TN69.pdf

  Bacon, WA3WDR

Adobe Acrobat Reader running under Firefox gives an error, saying "the file doesn't begin with %PDF" or similar.

Do you have an alternative format or file?

TIA.

73, Bill

Works fine on windoze exploder.....

Nuts, I had no idea.

Well, they say in it, "This document is copyrighted and may be reproduced in any format, physical or electronic, as long as it is not modified in any way."

So I attempted to print it to Adobe Distiller, which would have made a new and hopefully kosher pdf out of it, but it is an "encrypted" pdf, and I get an error message that says that re-encoding it in pdf form is forbidden.

So once again, technology works against the people.

I guess the thing to do is to download it and read it directly with Adobe Reader; if that is not possible with FireFox, then try it with Explorer.

I might be able to run it through a simple program that would add a '%pdf' to the beginning of the file somewhere, assuming that this would solve the problem.  Given that the owners allow copies and printouts, etc, I don't think that such would violate the spirit of the "don't change it in any way" rule.

That's a download issue, not a file or format issue.

Your file didn't d/l correctly.  Try doing a save-as to the desktop or somewhere else, then open it directly instead of trying to get the browser to pass the file to the 3rd party app.

Hope it helps.


Shane