# What's up with this strange PDF that comes with Acrobat? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 11, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965 "2005-03-11T03:42:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965/1 "2005-03-11T03:42:12Z")
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: > [@](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Wallet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e99b99/32.png) [@Wallet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallet)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965/2 "2005-03-11T03:47:39Z")
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- ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965/3 "2005-03-11T03:51:24Z")
It’s better than “The quick brown fox…”, sure, but why that particular test phrase in that corner? ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965/4 "2005-03-11T03:57:13Z")
Seriously, the text is incredibly tiny and takes up about an inch and a half square in the extreme bottom left corner. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965/5 "2005-03-11T04:43:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965/6 "2005-03-11T07:12:49Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965/7 "2005-03-11T07:49:36Z")
Mine is just like the OP’s. Weird! ---
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965/8 "2005-03-11T08:14:14Z")
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/](http://www.lipsum.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Armilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Armilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Armilla)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965/9 "2005-03-11T10:46:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965/10 "2005-03-11T14:45:20Z")
> [@Squee](#): > > 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/](http://www.lipsum.com/) Why Google? [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010216.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010216.html) ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965/11 "2005-03-11T19:00:59Z")
> [@Gunslinger](#): > > It’s better than “The quick brown fox…” How is it better? ---
**Author:** ![galt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@galt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965/12 "2005-03-12T00:48:26Z")
> [@Armilla](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![galt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@galt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this-strange-pdf-that-comes-with-acrobat/293965/13 "2005-03-12T00:57:04Z")
Sure enough, editing that file changes the font smoothing samples in the preferences box: [http://www.codsquad.com/~galt/acrotest.png](http://www.codsquad.com/~galt/acrotest.png)