stupid kinkos

Friday, August 20, 2004, at 02:50PM

By Eric Richardson

Anyone know when Adobe released Acrobat 5? 'Cause I'm pretty sure it was a while ago, and all the Kinkos around here still have 4. Now, when you try to view a file that uses 5 features in 4 (particularly alpha in the objects) you get some nice blocky non-transparent objects that look nothing at all like what your nice design did in anything recent. I know, if I was smart I would have saved my pdfs only using 4.0 features, but who would have guessed Kinkos is at least two years behind the times. I mean, come on, Acrobat 6 is out, and has been for a while.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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