Psytech South Africa

In testing the website, particularly in trying to see whether the uploaded files display correctly in different computers and different browsers, we have found that pdf files, particularly the ones created with Microsoft Word's "save as pdf" feature, do not display the same way on all computers. This can apparently happen even if the different computers are running the same version of Adobe Reader. Graphs and tables are affected more than ordinary text. Well, it so happens that the Psytech reports contain graphs and tables. We have found a workaround, and that is to create the pdf file with Cutepdf writer rather than saving it to pdf using Word. It also seems that pdf files that look strange after having been saved from Word, display correctly in Cutepdf Pro and not in Adobe Reader. We can only conclude that there is some incompatibility between Adobe Reader and the pdf files saved by Microsoft Word. We mention this, because as a service provider you may want to save your reports in pdf format to prevent people being able to modify them easily. However, be aware that if a client wants to view them in Adobe Reader, they may not look as you intended. The solution for us seems to be to install Cutepdf Writer on your computer as a printer driver (it is free) and to print the documents to pdf using that. These files seem to display correctly even in Adobe Reader. We hope this solution will work consistently.