Re: miscellaneous comments

[brender at gemevn dot zko dot dec dot com (Ron 603-884-2088)]

Todd,

>Broken pdf:
>
>   I'm sure this is just a procedural thing, but I'm viewing the
>   dwarf2p1-draft5dw-001130-dif-base.pdf document from the eagercon.com site,
>   and the tables in it seem broken.  At least when viewed with the linux
>   version of acroread 4.05.
>
>   In every table, for however many vertical cells there are that contain
>   actual text, there are an equal number of them preceding the table that
>   are just empty.  Or in some cases, the empty cells are interspersed with
>   the real cells.  For instance, pages 188-201 of my copy of this are
>   completely filled with empty cells.
>
>   Also, the Index is replicated.  There is a version with correct page
>   numbers, and another with incorrect ones.  (I forget which one is which.)
>
>   I suppose it could be a bug in the version of acroread that I'm using, but
>   I've never seen it behave this way on any other document, so that isn't my
>   first assumption.

The effect you are seeing has nothing to do with Acrobat/pdf. It is solely
related to what Word 97 does when asked to produce a "differences"
document in which there is a change in a Table between the versions
being compared. For running text, Word seems to do a reasonable job but
for Tables what it produces is, as you observe, pretty attrocious.

The difference documents have no actual or ever intended formal status,
so I produce them but never spend any time trying to tidy them up. For
one thing, the pagination is messed up and for another there are two
Indexes (the one you think has the incorrect one page numbers is surely
the one from the earlier version where the the page numbers *were* correct!)
If they help, great; if they don't (and for Tables they generally don't)
then there is always the two finger method... :-)

Ron