Players Manual text problem

Randomizer · Post by **Randomizer** » December 11th, 2007, 7:06 am

Is it just me or is the Mac demo version of the Eschalon Player's manual almost all unreadable characters? Except for the cover and the map there aren't enough readable parts to use it. Most are just rectangular boxes.

macdude22 · Post by **macdude22** » December 11th, 2007, 8:16 am

Are you using Adobe Reader or Preview, and if so what version? The manual should just be a PDF, at anyrate it looked fine to me and I printed it off for easy access.

Randomizer · Post by **Randomizer** » December 11th, 2007, 8:28 pm

It the Adobe reader that came with the iBook and it's about 2 years old for the version. This is the first time I've ever had a problem reading a pdf file.

macdude22 · Post by **macdude22** » December 11th, 2007, 8:38 pm

Try getting the latest version of Reader, it's possible the pdf isn't compatible with the old version. The PDF format is getting pretty wonky these days, gone are the good ol days of PDF, guaranteed you can view it guaranteed you can print it. Now they want to put friggin ADs in them even!

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat

Randomizer · Post by **Randomizer** » December 11th, 2007, 10:55 pm

It was Preview 2.1.1 from 2004 (obsolete for software). I'm downloading the latest version of Reader for my operating system.

"Five years is a lifetime for computers" - Bionic Woman

Jude · Post by **Jude** » December 12th, 2007, 3:52 am

There is no way to update Preview to view the manual properly if you are still using OS X 10.3.9. like I am. Luckily the version of Adobe Reader that works on OS X 10.3.9 will read the manual correctly.

I wish more care had been taken when making the manual pdf file to assure that all the people who are able to run the game can also read the manual! What is it anyway that makes the letters get changed into boxes? Is it because the pdf was done in Windows or was there a special feature that can only be accessed with later versions of pdf readers? If so, I don't see what it was or why it was necessary.

Jude

Randomizer · Post by **Randomizer** » December 12th, 2007, 6:26 pm

Now that I can read it with Acrobat Reader, it appears to be that Preview is failing to convert some of the graphic type text. It probably is a font problem.