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Old 09-02-2010, 12:04 AM   #1
Philippe Lemay
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Location: Canada, Quebec
Device: iPad, iPod Touch
60MB PDF file is loading nothing but white pages

At first I thought this was a caliber issue, because I noticed after having messed with the file's metadata, and ran into this problem. But after loading the native file that hadn't had anything done to it's metadata, I found the same problem. So it's an iPad compatibility issue, not caliber's fault.

Anyway, what the title says. A friend of mine passed me some Warhammer 40,000 PDF books to get me into it (lots of good recent stuff like 4th and 5th editions). One of which won't load properly. I had to mess with the metadata because they were all mish-mashed, but as I said above that probably isn't the cause for this...

Oh and the file itself is (or should be) sound, I was able to open it up in Foxit just fine. For some reason it's just white-page-ing on my Pad. Anyone have any experience with stuff like this? I'd really like to get it fixed if I can because the file that's not working is the core Rulebook for the 5th edition. The primary component for a would-be gamer like myself.

EDIT:
Now you know why I call myself an Apple Hater. To memory I can't remember having owned a more bug-prone device. I still love it though... lol, despite all it's failings, because what it does do right more than compensates. It's an odd... love/hate relationship.

EDIT2:
The file also white-pages on the Stanza App. My first attempt was on iBooks. I still suspect it's something wrong with the iPad though (and not just the file) because Foxit encounters no problems when reading it.

EDIT3:
I just found out that Foxit recently released an iPhone/iPad App (awesome!), and lo and behold, it actually works! So now I suppose I have the file on my Pad, which was the original goal. But I would still like to know why I ran into the white-page problem for all my other main eBook reading Apps.

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