Hellor Rikard!
On 01/17/2011 04:49 PM, Rikard Fröberg wrote:
> It's definitely added to the file by adobe software. That's my feeling
> at least.
>
>> Then, we should contact the institution to make them aware of the
>> problem, and see how they could solve it. Explaining them that their
>> documents are not accessible for everybody should ring a bell and make
>> them react quite quickly...
>>
>
> I actually contacted the Swedish Police on this matter and described the
> situation thoroughly to them, explaining each step and the implications
> of them offering applications in a form that requires particular
> software, proprietary no less, and got a confused reply where they
> explained: "Yes, we are aware. That's why we changed to PDF recently."
>
> I.e. they didn't understand that the PDFs they create cause a problem
> similar to when they had *other* file formats before. Sigh.
>
After some investigation made by an Evince developper, we now know that
- the PDF is specially crafted so you won't be able to see it unless you
are using Adobe reader and a new version... I
- the institution is using Adobe Live Cycling to create the
PDFs.
Regards
--
Maëlle Costa
Free Software Foundation Europe - intern
im : maelle(a)jabber.fsfe.org