Adobe Acrobat 6.0 doesn't support tiled patterns?

[Chris Shearer Cooper]

I'm hand-rolling my own PDF files (long story, don't ask why), and
I've just started including tiled patterns. They work great when I
load the PDF into Adobe Reader 8, but Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard
chokes with the extremely helpful message "A drawing error occurred."

I thought you could Control+Click on the OK button in the error box to
get details on the error, but it just closes the box like normal
clicking. Is there any way to get better error information out of
Acrobat?

According to the reference manual, tiled patterns were introduced with
PDF 1.2 back in 1996, and Acrobat 6.0 came out in 2003, so it should
be able to handle them.

So what's the situation?
1) Acrobat 6.0 was buggy, all is good in 7.0, if Reader 8 accepts my
PDF then my PDF is good.
2) Reader 8 is sloppy and accepts PDF files that it really shouldn't,
it's my PDF that's at fault

Thanks,
Chris

p.s. One possibility ... I have 4 patterns, each pattern draws an
image, and since each pattern has its own resource object, all of the
images drawn by patterns are named "/img0" which should be fine since
they are in separate resource objects, right?

[Bruno Lowagie]

On 2/10/2010 0:41, Chris Shearer Cooper wrote:
> I'm hand-rolling my own PDF files (long story, don't ask why),

You are either very brave or very stupid.

I prefer to think people hand-rollings PDFs are brave.
I started doing the same thing over 10 years ago.
The result 10 years later is more than 150K lines of code,
and two books: http://itextpdf.com/book/

The second book will be released next week,
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"All in all, the book is well written and the examples are vastly
improved over the first book. If you are creating a system for
generating ad hoc reports, programmatically generating PDFs on the fly
for web or other applications, modifying existing PDFs without their
original documentation or doing just about anything else with PDFs, this
is the book you need. Highly recommended." John Griffon

[ne...@nowhere.com.invalid]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:41:23 -0700 (PDT), Chris Shearer Cooper
<chris.shea...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm hand-rolling my own PDF files (long story, don't ask why), and
>I've just started including tiled patterns. They work great when I
>load the PDF into Adobe Reader 8, but Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard
>chokes with the extremely helpful message "A drawing error occurred."

---snipped---

Let me get this straight - your beef is about a product that is THREE
VERSIONS BACK from the current-day release.

You have too much time on your hands and should get out more.

[Chris Shearer Cooper]

On Oct 6, 1:14 pm, n...@nowhere.com.invalid wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:41:23 -0700 (PDT), Chris Shearer Cooper
>

> <chris.shearer.coo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >I'm hand-rolling my own PDF files (long story, don't ask why), and
> >I've just started including tiled patterns.  They work great when I
> >load the PDF into Adobe Reader 8, but Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard
> >chokes with the extremely helpful message "A drawing error occurred."
>
> ---snipped---
>
> Let me get this straight - your beef is about a product that is THREE
> VERSIONS BACK from the current-day release.
>
> You have too much time on your hands and should get out more.

Well ... yes and no ... my question is whether my Adobe Acrobat 6.x
was the problem, or whether my PDF was the problem. It looks like the
judges are voting that Acrobat was the problem.

Upgrading Acrobat costs $200. If you want to pay for that I'll be
glad to send you my PayPal information (grin)!

Should get out more? Heck yes.