Re: Uploaded TeX


"Robin Fairbairns" <rf10@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Tau" <nill@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Dan, this looks useful advice. Answers embedded.
You create a PDF file but don't say how.

Drop-down menu in TeXnics.

I didn't see any statement from you whether the PDF file worked fine
before you uploaded it.

Yes, works absolutely fine.

If so, you should use Document Properties in
Acrobat Reader to see what information it gives about fonts.

I've got full Acrobat. Right-click on Properties unfortunately tells me
absolutely nothing.

no: open the document; then "document properties" (or something like)
is on the file drop-down. on acrobat 7, the fonts are on a tab of the
properties window.


Got there.
There were about a dozen fonts, all looking in good order.


however, if you've full acrobat, why not try making postscript and
opening that in acrobat. it will distill it and make pdf; but at the
same time it will moan about any fonts it believes are wrong.


Made a ps, distilled it and there was no moaning.


The server, Fasthosts, say they don't have the facility to support MIME,
so
apparently my PDF can only work with an extension to the website of
\index.PDF. But this is all outside my realm of knowledge.

if these people don't send the correct document type for a pdf file,
they're beyond the pale, and shouldn't be given any business
whatever. (for apache, it involves a line in the config files; it
can't be much different in other server software.)

if you can tell us the url for this file, it should be pretty easy to
find out whether they are in fact serving it properly. i wouldn't be
at all surprised if they _do_ actually deal with pdf, but the people
who you were talking to were droids who didn't know pdf from a bottle
of beer.

I guess I'm getting a bit OT, but if you have any suggestions as to what to
do (get a refund?), they will be gratefully received. If there's a better,
but also *cheap*, server out there that can do this, I'm interested.

--Tau


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Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge


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