TrimBox problem with microscopic text
Hello,
Adobe Reader is the only PDF reader that cannot open properly some kind of PDFs generated by the LaTeXiT software (I am the developer BTW).
Those PDFs have a particularity : some metadata is hidden by using microscopic (1e-6) font size with transparent text.
The PDF is generated through Apple's Quartz technology and standard drawing commands, using the standard Courier font.
No PDF standard seems violated, but Adobe Reader complains about TrimBox problems (while all other PDF readers just work).
Is there any reason/workaround ?
It seems to be a bug in Adobe Reader.
Here is attached an example.
Pierre Chatelier
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Michael Engel
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I have the same problem. It not only appears with Adobe Acrobat Reader, but also with Adobe Acrobat Pro 2017. Let me clarify, this problem occurred for me in the OS X version of these programs.
Sometimes the behavior is a crash, sometimes there are error messages:
* Error message: “An error was encountered while saving this document.”
* Error message: “An error was encountered while flattening transparent objects."It is reproducible every time with pdfs that contain formula generated with LaTeXiT.
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Oliver Will commented
This is really bad. I will have to tell anyone to not use Adobe Reader when opening PDFs that contain equations. Please look into this issue!
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Pierre Chatelier
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Is my user voice listened to ?
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Pierre Chatelier
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Add-on: sometimes there is no error but some parts of the PDF are just not rendered.
Here is a PDF generated by Keynote: a single page where a PDF equation from LaTeXiT have been copied twice.
Only one of the two equations is rendered (under Adobe Reader, every other PDF reader is OK).