[Error-Report] Scrambled Output with files from PDFCreator

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[Error-Report] Scrambled Output with files from PDFCreator

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Hi 'oh great developers' :wink:

Whenever I open files created with the free PDFCreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/) the contents are completely scrambled in pdf-XChange-Viewer (look fine in Acrobat or Foxit). The same is true for the first page of all the files from jstor.org (which is a major problem because ~48% of all files used in the humanities come from that page, that is a big usergroup). Apparently these have been created by iText (http://www.lowagie.com/iText/).
I've included a sample file from both sources in the attachment (only first page from jstor-file, shouldn't be a copyright-problem).
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Re: [Error-Report] Scrambled Output with files from PDFCreator

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Sorry, see no difference (just small difference in font rendering, as usual).
Can you provide screenshot(s) illustrating the problem?
And please ensure that you are using lates build.
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Re: [Error-Report] Scrambled Output with files from PDFCreator

Post by John - Tracker Supp »

Hi,

I also confrim that using the latest build there is no problem viewing these files - please update :

1: Using the option - Help -> Check for updates

or

2: Uninstall and download the latest full install from :

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/PDFXVwer.zip

HTH
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Re: [Error-Report] Scrambled Output with files from PDFCreator

Post by grovel »

Ok, sorry, entirely my fault. :oops: I'm a fan of portable versions and had simply copied the executable from the portable version onto my desktop. This worked fine, except for these files. Works fine now, with full install, also works fine with portable if the entire zip is extracted.
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Re: [Error-Report] Scrambled Output with files from PDFCreator

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Yes, into the bundle there is file resource.dat which can be critical for some kind of documents. It contains metrics for PDF standard fonts, etc.
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