Anybody know anything about PDF File Corruption/Changing/Glitches

"NoahthePorscheGuy" (porsche)
04/09/2014 at 21:17 • Filed to: None

So as you could probably tell from my 500 plus posts on the topic in the past week, I became my local PCA editor. Somehow, when I sent the PDF to the person in charge of the website, a line of text got removed and replaced with another that could be seen as vaguely relevant. The left is the pdf sent to the webmaster, the right is the pdf featured on the website. Everything else is identical except file name. How could this happen?

I vote !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , but what say you?

DISCUSSION (10)

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > NoahthePorscheGuy
04/09/2014 at 21:32

Kinjaaaaaa

AthomSfere > NoahthePorscheGuy
04/09/2014 at 21:33

Was the file open at any time while Oppo was also open...?

Probably got Tiger'd.

Joking aside: Are those both shots from your machine?

I'd say someone edited the file by mistake or comments were used on accident are now "off" in the shot on the right.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > NoahthePorscheGuy
04/09/2014 at 22:02

Strange. Any chance you had the PDF on the left open, and hadn't saved some changes to it before sending it to the webmaster?

NoahthePorscheGuy > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/09/2014 at 22:04

no. the left side is me redownloading it from the google driver folder i sent

StoneCold > NoahthePorscheGuy
04/09/2014 at 22:07

Question: What are you using to make the PDFs; also, what is he/she using to read them?

BaconSandwich is tasty. > NoahthePorscheGuy
04/09/2014 at 22:08

Hmm, strange. You could try taking a peek at any metadata that is in the document. Not sure if it'll turn up much, but it might be worth looking into.

NoahthePorscheGuy > StoneCold
04/09/2014 at 22:12

I made the PDF by exporting from indesign, I am unaware what they used to view it, but it was posted to norpca.org where it is viewable.

NoahthePorscheGuy > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/09/2014 at 22:13

where could i look into that/what could it show?

StoneCold > NoahthePorscheGuy
04/09/2014 at 22:15

Huh, I've heard of these shenanigans with reading it with Adobe, but unfortunately, I can't be too much help then :/

BaconSandwich is tasty. > NoahthePorscheGuy
04/10/2014 at 14:24

I'm not entirely sure. I've done it with Word documents before, and it will show the author, how long the file was edited for, when it was edited, etc. Not sure if there is something similar for PDFs.