[X4U] Why can't Windows users open my pdf files?

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Sep 28, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Tut wrote:

> Lately, I have been getting complaints from people using Windows  
> that my files can’t be opened.  Most of them have been pdf files  
> created using the Print panel.  I tried even using Acrobat, saving  
> as Acrobat 5 with the same result.  Even a Word document from a  
> Windows user to another Windows user was not opened on that  
> system.  Their systems claimed that the documents were damaged  
> beyond repair.
>
> I am using Entourage and all my attachments are encoded for Windows  
> (Base64/MIME); no compression; Windows file name extensions.  I am  
> using an iMac G5 with Tiger 10.4.2.
>
> Can anyone guess what is causing this?

Are you adding the .pdf extension?


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