Fedora makes bad pdf files?

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Tue, 9/23/08, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Fedora makes bad pdf files?
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 2:53 PM
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:51:26 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
> > Dear Linux Using Friends:
> > 
> > I've run into a trouble that Firefox users who
> "print to file" and
> > create pdf output generate files that acroread cannot
> open.
> > 
> > My teaching assistant first discovered this while
> browsing the web.  A
> > variety of pdf created by print to file were viewable
> in evince, but
> > not acrobat.  SInce most students are using acrobat on
> Windows or
> > Macintosh, this created a problem.
> > 
> > In my Ubunutu Linux (Hardy Herron) system, the error
> message I see
> > when I try to open the file is "There was an
> error processing a page.
> > Error while parsing a Form, Type 3 font, or
> Pattern."  I have not seen
> > the Microsoft Acroboat error with my own eyes, but the
> students
> > complain it says "not a valid pdf file."
> > 
> > In one example, the error says "Adobe Reader
> could not open 'file.pdf'
> > because it is either not a supported file type or
> becausethefile has
> > been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email
> attachment and
> > wasn't correctly decoded)".  However, the
> EXACT same file can be
> > viewed with Evince:
> > 
> > http://pj.freefaculty.org/linux/file.pdf
> 
> That's not a PDF file, however. It's PostScript.
> Display it with
> "less" to see.
> 
> -- 

Evince opens both files up, but the first has the second page not show properly.  If the files are ps files disguised as PDF, then evince will open them, but acrobat won't.  This has happened to me.  Solution might be a
# yum install cups-pdf

and then print to pdf using cups-pdf and the pdf should be viewable in Acrobat Reader.

Regards,

Antonio