need help testing a pdf file on my improved website--can you open it?

[storm]

i need some folks to go to the bottom of my homepage (www.stoneageskills.com) and click on the new pdf file--the Boiling Stones article (it is updated). i want to make sure everyone can open and read it before i convert all my files to pdf format. currently all my articles are in MS Word, a program that everyone does not have. but apparently everyone can open pdf files. thank you!

please let me know if you were successful or not.

 

[Pablo]

Storm,

Yup...it works for me. The file opens up in the same window.

Pablo

 

[fred gordon]

Works fine with me too.

 

[led]

Me too, opens fine.

 

[sandbender]

Opens fine on the Macintosh platform, its a bit big though, I ran it through Acrobat and reduced it to 420kb with no loss in quality.

Not too sure how these things work in windows land, however a google search for 'reduce pdf size freeware' produces several hits for free filesize reducing utilities.



It is a very good idea not to provide 'Microsoft Word' documents as downloadable files, nor to email them, as they can contain additional information hidden in the metadata. See the BBC story for details...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3154479.stm

 

[leon-1]

It works for me, a nice article as well thank you storm

 

[oracle2]

No problems for me.

 

[Brian]

Storm,

It works fine with Firefox mate,

Brian

 

[Squidders]

Works a treat for me... also very interesting.
Cheers!

 

[stone]

Works with Firefox on Linux too!

 

[OldJimbo]

It worked fine on all the standard linux pdf viewers, though for some reason KGhostview changed the font.
You should be able to optimize and reduce size for non-broadband users.

 

[OldJimbo]

And I should have added that I really enjoyed the content! That's been my experience with various rocks too.

 

[cossack]

Opens fine into a new tab (Firefox), been there with Microsoft word compatability though, either with trying to open with old versions or sending files to people with only MS works

 

[storm]

since folks from around the world have let me know that the pdf works for them, i've removed the test pdf from my homepage and have converted all of my articles to pdf--finally...

but i'll search for that freeware that reduces pdf file size!

 

[Rod]

Hi Storm,

Works fine for me - really interesting articles

cheers