bOING bOING zine PDF: now smaller, more compatible

A few people have emailed me to let me know that the PDF of bOING bOING no. 1 (my print zine from 1989) was not working for them. If you had trouble opening the file, try this version. It is smaller (11MB instead of 16MB) and compatible with earlier versions of Acrobat Reader.
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Reader comment: Simon says: "The compatibility problems are mainly with mac users not using acrobat. all macs running OS X come standard with apple's own 'acrobat' called 'preview'.

"preview reads .pdf files just like acrobat and i've never had a problem with it until i downloaded your boing boing zine! yeah for some reason (i don't know?) the boing boing zine in apple's preview just came up dead blank ...nuthin' ! it did show that the document was 32 pages - but every one of them 32 pages had zero content.

"so i then opened the .pdf in photoshop - and that actually worked! but photoshop had to rasterize the whole document first before i could view it.

"so yeah ...then i downloaded acrobat reader for mac OS X and it worked fine - i could see the zine! ...yay!

"so yeah ...i'd say 90% of boing boing readers would have acrobat reader already.

"but then you got those pesky mac users who have never downloaded acrobat cuz they've always just used apple's preview.

"anyhow, the zine was a great read - a blast from the past!"