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January 20, 2005
Help! Problem with Adobe Reader 7
There are several people around the Net having a strange problem with Adobe Reader 7.0. When they try to open PDFs that worked without any problem in Reader 6 they get an error message "There were too many arguments". Cancelling the error message brings up the document without any visible problems. There are several messages in the Adobe forums (without any anwser yet) and on the FOP list. The problem doesn't however seem to be limited to just FOP generated documents. Eric Wagoner has put some example PDFs up that show this problem. We're also experiencing the same problem using FOP and so I'm hoping someone out there has an idea.
Update: My post over on the Adobe forum seems to have generated a promising answer.
Update: Looks like the error was fixed in a newer FOP version.
Posted by Matthew at January 20, 2005 11:31 AM
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FWIW, I've tested the example files on my macosx system with Adobe Reader 7: stakingsheet.pdf opens without error message, and Estimate.pdf gives the error message but can then be read, as you describe.
Posted by: Bertrand Delacretaz at January 20, 2005 02:07 PM