Hello, My problem is solved now ... I realised it had to have something to do with the folder threads - i.e. that the thread records didn't maintain correct references to the folders.... was quite a silly error actually .... the nodename[0] field which holds the length of the nodename (in the folder and its thread didn't correspond to each other due to a small bug in my program) ... so though the file and the icon got displayed correctly and the data could be accessed, acrobat apparently tries relocating its way down the tree starting from root.
One surprising thing I noticed is that I didn't have this problem for jpg files - probably the graphics application which is launched on Mac OS functions slightly differently as compared to Acrobat..... dunno in what way although...good news is it works now anyway !
Regards, Nandini Hengen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Sisak" sgs-lists@codewell.com To: "Entwicklung" entwicklung@whengenibk.de; darwin-development@lists.apple.com Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 2:14 PM Subject: Re: pdf files on Mac-OS 9
At 1:23 PM +0200 4/19/02, Entwicklung wrote:
What could this be due to ? Could this be some problem with the
filesystem
format or does it rather have to do with Acrobat Reader for Mac OS?
This is not a Darwin issue, but it's probably that the HFS file type is not set to and therefor the file can't be opened by Acrobat because it isn't recognized as a PDF file.
When you copy the file, PC File Exchange treats it as a Non-Mac file (because the type isn't set) and applies a type/creator based on the file's extension which allows the copy to be opened by Acrobat -- it probably doesn't matter where you copy.
(Note that the creator is not important, but most pre-X Mac applications will not open a file with an incorrect type -- extensions have no significance pre-X)
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