25th June 2002
Lockergnomie Caleb Ciampaglia has documented a document dilemma: "After upgrading to the latest and greatest Adobe Acrobat Reader (5.05), I encountered an error message when I was using a Web based reporting tool at work. Whenever I tried to view a report (which was a PDF file), I received an error message: 'linear data' error. After a little research on Adobe's Web site, I disabled an option called 'Allow Fast Web View' and everything worked wonderfully, though it was a tad slower. This option can be found in Edit | Preferences | Options. Apparently, it is a new method that Adobe uses to transfer the PDF file from the Web browser (in my case, Netscape 4.79 and Internet Explorer 6.0) to the Acrobat Reader. It [the method] is incompatible with many PDF file generators (like reporting tools). So, if you are having these sorts of problems, just configure Acrobat to use the old, more reliable, way of transferring the document." I've never liked viewing my PDFs inline (inside the browser). If you're given the option, you might be just as smart to right-click and "Save Target As" instead of opening it up right then and there.