On Sat, Sep 22, 2007, "G. Crona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Hi Guys!
> 
> I've been toying with Adobe professional and have encountered a perplexing
> problem which I wonder if any others have also had. I scanned a huge book
> (442 pages) in 300 dpi. The resulting file was 230 Mb. 

a suspicous number.

> But here's the crunch: If I copy the
> file to a memory stick or any other drive, it won't open! 

as far as I know, .pdf files are standalone, there is nothing else to go
with them, except fonts if they werent embeded (and arent on the target
system.  A straight copy of the one obvious file should be sufficient; and
if fonts show up missing, thre are procedures to reconcile that, the
messages you are getting suggest the file is corrupted during the copy.

It is conceivable that windoze is having trouble handling a file that
large.

Try splitting the file into smaller pieces (use acrobat).  It is
conceivable that the problem is with one particular page, if so this will
help isolate it quickly (divide the problematical portion in half
continually, 412,206,103,52,26,13,7,4,2,1 after 10 splits at most you will
have the culprit, assuming just one).

> I have only 256 Mb RAM

well, some of that is used by core portions of the operating system, and
more by whatever programs are loaded; what was available at the time you
tried to do this work is what is of concern.  On an older mac there is a
utility program that ships with the system which could tell you in large
scale how memory is being used, not sure if windoze has anything similar.

It is conceivable that limiting the loaded programs will enable the copy
to happen both faster and smoothly.  Dunno why the copy didnt discover it
was mucking up and tell you.

Humongous pdf files are inconveniant in use, please consider splitting
this one up into smaller parts; chapters, gathers, whatever.
-- 
Dana Emery




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