Iliad won't open some PDFs

sputnik · 07-14-2008, 11:25 PM

The bar at the bottom shows activity, so does the green led, but after some seconds the screen flashes and instead of opening the file, it continues to display the list of files. I tried putting other pdf's, and they open.

Anyone had this problem? Why some pdfs won't open? Is there a solution?

EDIT: I reprinted/refried the pdf that wouldn't open as a pdf file (I "refried" the pdf). During this process, Acrobat gave me an error saying that some font could not be found and the document might not display correctly. The pdf was created, and then I put it on the USB stick and the iLiad did open it. So I think that the problem might have been the font contained by the original pdf. Anyone can confirm this??

sharpshin · 07-15-2008, 08:38 PM

The normal response to any kind of error in reading a PDF is to bail back to the ContentLister. If you are adventurous and linux-knowledgable you can SSH to the Iliad and turn on syslogging which sometimes will give you an error diagnostic. I've had insufficient memory errors for very complex PDFs.

07-14-2008, 11:25 PM	#1
sputnik Enthusiast Posts: 46 Karma: 133388 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: London, Ontario Device: EB 1150, iLiad	Iliad won't open some PDFs The bar at the bottom shows activity, so does the green led, but after some seconds the screen flashes and instead of opening the file, it continues to display the list of files. I tried putting other pdf's, and they open. Anyone had this problem? Why some pdfs won't open? Is there a solution? EDIT: I reprinted/refried the pdf that wouldn't open as a pdf file (I "refried" the pdf). During this process, Acrobat gave me an error saying that some font could not be found and the document might not display correctly. The pdf was created, and then I put it on the USB stick and the iLiad did open it. So I think that the problem might have been the font contained by the original pdf. Anyone can confirm this?? Last edited by sputnik; 07-14-2008 at 11:54 PM.

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07-15-2008, 08:38 PM	#2
sharpshin Member Posts: 13 Karma: 301 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Silicon Valley Device: Iliad V2	The normal response to any kind of error in reading a PDF is to bail back to the ContentLister. If you are adventurous and linux-knowledgable you can SSH to the Iliad and turn on syslogging which sometimes will give you an error diagnostic. I've had insufficient memory errors for very complex PDFs.

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