[X Newbies] Making PDF files readable in v5.0 for 9

[TheMacintoshLady]

Mark_PHILIP at scdf.gov.sg tapped out this message on 2/17/2003 8:36 PM 

>I think the problem is with how you created the PDFs in the first place.
>Try this:
>1) Go to your application (Say AppleWorks)
>2) Open your document, select Print Preview
>3) This should generate a PDF. I believe that either Acrobat Reader 5 or
>Preview will launch. Save the resulting previewed document as name.pdf
>4) You should be able to open this PDF on any platform...
>
>Hope that helps!
>Let us know how it goes!

I have done this as well as SAVE AS PDF. I made a lot of PDFs in Mac OS. 
I wonder if they won't read due to not having resource forks in the X 
system?
A lot of things do NOT carry over and no wonder, it's UNIX of course.