Mac PDF's not working on PC...

Joe_Cutolo · Joe_Cutolo #1 (**permalink**)

08-18-2008, 04:23 PM

I have made a handful of nice attractive pdf's on my macbook, using MS Word. They have a black background, which displays properly on my mac, but when opened on Windows machines, with acrobat reader, the background only covers 25% of the page. I have made a handful of pdf's and the problem keeps happening.

Any advice would be very appreciated.

Dysfunction · Dysfunction #2 (**permalink**)

08-18-2008, 04:29 PM

do they do the same in Adobe Reader on the mac?

Joe_Cutolo · Joe_Cutolo #3 (**permalink**)

08-18-2008, 04:34 PM

I don't have adobe for the mac... I found a different setting that saves the file as a "pdf-x" and it seemed to work correctly. So I'm going to troubleshoot that solution and see what happens. Thanks for the reply.

rogerinlondon · rogerinlondon #4 (**permalink**)

08-18-2008, 04:42 PM

The Adobe reader is a free download, also for the Mac.

Dysfunction · Dysfunction #5 (**permalink**)

08-18-2008, 05:09 PM

Yep, and I've found (and reported) rendering differences between Reader and Preview.

rogerinlondon · rogerinlondon #6 (**permalink**)

08-19-2008, 05:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Dysfunction

Yep, and I've found (and reported) rendering differences between Reader and Preview.

Really? What is the difference?

Alexis · Alexis #7 (**permalink**)

08-19-2008, 09:39 AM

Preview can sometimes have problems with transparency. And the colours sometimes darken.

Dysfunction #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 17, 2008 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 6,514 Mac Specs: 2008 and 2011 15" mbps, late 11 iMac, iPhone 4s, and too many ipods and other stuff	08-18-2008, 04:29 PM do they do the same in Adobe Reader on the mac? mike This machine kills fascists Got # ? phear the command line!
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Dysfunction #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 17, 2008 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 6,514 Mac Specs: 2008 and 2011 15" mbps, late 11 iMac, iPhone 4s, and too many ipods and other stuff	08-18-2008, 05:09 PM Yep, and I've found (and reported) rendering differences between Reader and Preview. mike This machine kills fascists Got # ? phear the command line!
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Joe_Cutolo #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jun 25, 2008 Posts: 25	08-18-2008, 04:23 PM I have made a handful of nice attractive pdf's on my macbook, using MS Word. They have a black background, which displays properly on my mac, but when opened on Windows machines, with acrobat reader, the background only covers 25% of the page. I have made a handful of pdf's and the problem keeps happening. Any advice would be very appreciated.
	QUOTE Thanks

rogerinlondon #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 02, 2006 Location: London, England Posts: 397 Mac Specs: MacPro 2,66GHz 10GB RAM NV 8800GT Cinema 30" * MBP 15" Glossy 2.33 GHz 2 Duo 3GB RAM 160GB HD	08-18-2008, 04:42 PM The Adobe reader is a free download, also for the Mac.
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Alexis #7 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 20, 2006 Posts: 2,255 Mac Specs: Al iMac 20" 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo	08-19-2008, 09:39 AM Preview can sometimes have problems with transparency. And the colours sometimes darken.
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