Preview does not properly show all of PDF

If you go to Pfaltzgraff.com and download the PDF coupons for their factory stores, these will not display or print in their entirety using Preview. This happens on 10.4.10! However, if you use Adobe reader 7.0.5 or 8.1 they display and print fine.These are the first two documents I have ever seen that do not work properly in Preview. I thought things just worked on a Mac :^)

Hi SkiALot ~
Any application that has to interface with the web has the potential for this. You probably have noticed web browsers sometimes work, sometimes not... which is why a lot of folks have more than one. On rare occasions, I find Safari won't work with some web code on sites, so I use Firefox on those.
The problem is that although good web sites try to follow a web standard, not all web technologies work well with all applications out there that interface with the web.
I can confirm that the site you mentioned did indeed not allow Preview to display the coupons correctly. If you use this site frequently, you may want to send an Email to them pointing this out. Perhaps they can alter their code. If not, it's just one of those annoyances. In this case, since Acrobat handles it just fine, it isn't a big one.

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now it's time for me to post the problem & perhaps someone will come up with some kind of "dummy" way to fix it.
until then many sites a regularly use are totally useless to me on this fast puter.
the only way i can get to use such sites, are two choices: 1. use a dinosaur laptop, which is slower than molasses & cannot handle to any streaming stuff, or 2. use an available internet access puter at the library. but useage for ea person per day is limited to only one hour a day. and one can end up waiting for an hour or more ( in the busiest periods) to even get to use one.
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thanks muchly :^D
p.s. i can't pay anybody any money for such help, as is required in certain sites (e.g. Java website), cuz i don't have any.
i can pay in labor tho, if there is someway to find someone who can physically be at this puter w/me, taking me step-by-step
sorry for the 20-pg essay. i hope it was all clearly understood. if, not, well, clear communication is always what is needed, ask away.

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