Posted by Jim Higson on 05/31/06 10:02

>> They know about it but don't know what can be done. It prints
>> with the proper grid apparently (not tried this) but the inner
>> lines fail to show. I expect they can't be bothered to make a
>> proper table of it with borders in html and choose the PDf and
>> don't know how to fix the display. I get the same problem
>> downloading the PDF to my Adobe Acrobat Reader... ah hang on, it
>> opens fine in Mac Preview... So it seems it is a prob with
>> particular software... ho hum... Mac at least has easy fix...
>> (discovered during course of this note to you lot... btw, anyone
>> do Sudoku?)
>
> No Acrobat here (only use FOSS software), but it displays fine in KPDF
> (which uses the Poppler renderer)

Forgot to mention, newer versions of Poppler use the Cairo graphics backend,
which supports anti-aliasing for everything, so all that zooming might not
be necessary.

There might be a Windows/Mac program that uses this renderer, I haven't
looked.

Some links:
http://www.archivesat.com/Poppler_PDF_rendering_library/
http://cairographics.org/

--
Jim

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