A related issue on the printing thread: I often have this problem with Adobe Acrobat Distiller (which I use to create PDF versions of maps). When I use the Print command and select Acrobat Distiller as the printer to use, it will work about 30-50 percent of the time as long as I only use the default settings and name the resulting pdf file with a single-letter file name.
But if I change any settings (such as shift from color to black and white, or change from portrait to landscape), or if I give it a file name with more than one letter in the file name, it fails over 95 % of the time and I have to tell it to print again. Thankfully I've figured out how to tell immediately if it's going to work or be a problem: if it's going to work, the status bar at the bottom of the maptitude window will run through the various layers being printed, showing the name of each layer one at a time (but for only a tenth of a second each or so). If it's not going to work, the "printing" pop-up message appears for 10 - 30 seconds and then goes away, but Acrobat never appears. This problem only occurs with Maptitude, and I've encountered it over 100 times (for my work, I create pdf files from Maptitude or other programs virtually every day). I have never encountered it in any other program. Obviously I've found a useful work-around, but I look forward to this not being a problem in some future version. Any tips would be welcome. On a related note, there was a discussion a while back about "transparent" layers printing as solid when printed to PDF. I hit this every time too. Did anyone offline find a solution? Thanks! - Doug Douglas Johnson Senior Research Associate Rose Institute of State and Local Government [EMAIL PROTECTED] 310-200-2058 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease? Network for Good is THE place to support health awareness efforts! http://us.click.yahoo.com/RzSHvD/UOnJAA/79vVAA/C5grlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Maptitude/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
