I was randomly browsing through my computer today, and came across a strange file. The filename is “ENUtxt.pdf”, and it’s in “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Resources”.
It’s an 8.5"x11" PDF, blank except for one sentence on two lines in the extreme lower left corner. That sentence is:
What’s the point of it? It seems awfully random and silly, especially for Adobe.
Just keep examining every low
bid quoted for zinc etchings.
What’s the point of it? It seems awfully random and silly, especially for Adobe.
It has all the letters of the alphabet in it.
-Wallet-
It’s better than “The quick brown fox…”, sure, but why that particular test phrase in that corner?
Seriously, the text is incredibly tiny and takes up about an inch and a half square in the extreme bottom left corner.
Hmmm … in 6.0 it says:
Lorem ipsum dolor
ad minim verniam高間家
Gotta be some kind of font test or demo file.
The spectators were astonished by the unusual amounts of blood.
belgian waffles belgian belgian waffles syrup waffles waffles
I’m guessing it’s just the equivalent of “One two testing”.
Mine is just like the OP’s.
Weird!
Like Twoflower, I user version 6.0 and see the same thing…“Lorem ipsum dolor
ad minim verniam高間家”
I decided to Google that expression and it gave me this link: http://www.lipsum.com/
If you open up Acrobat and go to Edit / Preferences on the menus and select the smoothing option are the various examples of font smoothing the same as the text in that file? I think it’s an example PDF, localised for ENglishUS that it renders via its different filters as a demonstration.
Why Google? http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010216.html
How is it better?
Yes, Armilla is exactly right, except the “smoothing” section of the preferences has been removed in version 7. I bet this file was left in the install package as an oversight.
Sure enough, editing that file changes the font smoothing samples in the preferences box: http://www.codsquad.com/~galt/acrotest.png
