[pdftex] "Linearized hint data" problem

[Jennifer Howlett]

John Culleton wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 16 August 2003 10:24, Jennifer Howlett wrote:
> > John Culleton wrote:
> > > On Saturday 16 August 2003 04:25 am, Jennifer Howlett wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> 
> > > > Does anyone know the actual cause of the problem? Is there
> > > > something wrong with Ghostscript's optimizer? Would the problem
> > > > persist if my colleague could be persuaded to use pdftex
> > > > originally, and only use ghostscript at the optimizing stage?
> > > >
> > > >> Any help would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Bob Howlett
> 
> What is Ghostscript's role in all this? I am not familiar with "optimizing"
> using Ghostscript.  Does theproblem occur if the pdflatex output is
> viewed in Acrobat Reader?

No, the problem only appears when the pdf file is opened in a web
browser.
Both IE and Netscape exhibit the problem.

Ghostscript comes with an optimizer (or linearizer) called pdfopt.
I've been telling my colleagues repeatedly that it is a good idea to 
optimize pdf files, but since most of them don't have Acrobat they
have to use pdfopt to do it. This problem is damaging my
credibility!

Bob Howlett