pdf's of Acts

[David Biggins]

I've seen a lot of cases where PDFs fail to load properly into the browser
when the link is clicked.  Not just here, but for a lot of people.

Worse, after a failed download of a PDF, it seems to be necessary to clear
the browser cache and at least the local proxy/cache (which if you don't
control it involves waiting) before you can do a succesful download.

Strangely, when the link is to an FTP download to the PDF, it always seems
to work perfectly - HTTP links are the ones where the problems seem to
arise.

Right-clicking a link to a PDF and doing "save target as" then opening the
local file copy is, incidentally, the most reliable way of getting a PDF - I
have yet to see problems getting them this way.

## dave ##

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian G Batten [mailto:I.G.Batten@ftel.co.uk]
> Sent: 28 November 2002 13:57
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: pdf's of Acts
> 
> 
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, David Swarbrick wrote:
> > Though the HMSO site Acts are, as you say, chunked, I still 
> see .pdf's 
> > as the spawn of the devil. They are inherently 'anti-net', 
> and half the 
> > machines I use either do not read or print them properly, 
> and they are 
> > awful to use.
> 
> How so?  I've yet to see a platform they fail on.  Conversely, HTML
> generated from DTP packages is usually execrable, and _does_ cause
> rendering problems.
> 
> ian
> 
>