- Problem: When viewing files with the Adobe reader, sometimes characters in equations are replaced by underscores or are grayed out.
Solution: A simple way to fix this is to deselect the radio button for Greek text (circled in red) in the general preferences window as shown in Figure 1. The window is available under the File/Preferences/General menu tree. The sense of this button does seem to be reversed. (Hey some people think that momentum compaction ought to be momentum dilation.)
Figure 1. General preference window from Adobe
acroread
3.01 on a Linux box.
A similar window is available in other versions of the Acrobat Reader.
- Problem: For Unix versions of Adobe
acroread
, characters in equations sometimes get scrambled in printing when they display OK on the screen.Solution: Select the print window from the File/Print menu tree. Deselect the "Download Fonts Once" button as shown in Fig. 2. This radio button seems to exist only for Unix platforms. With this button enabled, certain fonts get downloaded to the printer at the beginning of the of the first page but get cleared before the next page. The usual symptom is that the first printed page looks OK, but succeeding pages have Courier or Helvetica substituted for symbols in equations on following pages.
Figure 2. The print menu window from Adobe
acroread
3.01 on a Linux box.
- Problem: When viewing Papers with the Adobe Reader Version 4.0, sometimes characters in the text and equations appears to be colored, on some platforms.
Solution: The suggestion is to use Acrobat Reader V3.0, or try changing the Platform. If Acrobat Reader V4 must be used, a simple way to fix this is to deselect the radio button for 'Smooth Text and Images' in the general preferences window as shown in Figure 3. The window is available under the File/Preferences/General menu tree. However, although the text is more readable, it can degrade the figures.
Figure 3. General preference window from Adobe
acroread
4.0 on a HP Unix box.
A similar window is available in other versions of the Acrobat Reader.