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I had posted awhile back about whether or not to purchase Acrobat Pro 6.0 or
not. The concensus was to go ahead and purchase it, with a few caveats to
keep a copy of 5.0 around. Both of these have been done.
Sounds good.
I do have several questions that I'm wondering if you can assist me with.
1. What are you using for standard set-up parameters? For example, what is the page default that you use? I like 100%.
That depends on your documents; for me, 100% may already lead to a bit too small text for reading comfortably, therefore, my default is "Fit Width". This also has the advantage that in the cases I need the side panel (for example for fields or bookmarks), the view automatically adjusts. However, always note that the setting in the document will override the user's settings.
2. Do you display single page or continuous? Why to each?
This really depends on the kind of documents you have. There are a few features which work only in continuous view, such as text extraction over page boundaries, whereas transitions work only (if at all) in single page view. For forms work with smart forms, single page view is the better choice, for primarily reading documents, such as manuals etc. continuous might be a bit more comfortable, particularly in conjunction with the Fit Width setting (see above).
3. For those of you with users with large monitors (19"-21") what is
the standard display size that you use? I prefer a smaller resolution (1024
x 768 or 1152 x 864). I do have one user with a large monitor with settings
at 800 x 600). What I am finding is that I cannot find the "OK" button when
I want to print or to save settings. The only way I can see that is to
change the display and then adjust it or to say enter. But then, I am not
sure if the settings are "held" and/or remembered.
If I remember correctly, you should have 1024 x 768 or bigger for Acrobat 6. Actually, this is really recommended from a practical point of view, because of those huge toolbar icons and the bloated window borders. The icons must have grown by 50% linearily between Acrobat 5 and 6...
Unless that user has an eyesight problem, either set the monitor to an appropriate resolution, or give him a smaller monitor (and use the big monitor for yourself <gg>)
4. Printing - This same user noticed that when a document was sent to print, that it was really "glitchy" and almost choking on the printing. What are the parameters that you set up?
Hmmm... What kind of box does that user have? There may be various reasons for this behavior. One is that the print dialog is set to "print as image", which would take quite a bit of resources. But it could as easily be that that machine is too low on resources (memory, disk space) and/or too many processes are running on it. Also, you should get the newest printer drivers for the printer you use.
5. Do any of you have any good sources, other than the Adobe help file
for me to review to familiarize myself with this? I wanted to test more,
but of course, wasn't able to.
You might look at the "usual suspects", such as the Classroom in a Book series, or the just recently announced book by Carl Young (which is so new that I have not yet been able to memorize its title <g>).
6. Another issue that I encountered was that there is generated
Microsoft VB warnings for enabling macros. I think I figured out how to
disable this and to make it so that it doesn't reappear. Has anyone else
had that problem? I'm running Microsoft XP and Windows 2000 Server
environment.
It could be that these warnings come from the PDFMaker macros, which are used to create PDF from the Office applications.
Hope, this can help.
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