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Jeffrey,
I don't have secret email addresses. You can send the file to
me at the email address from which I posted this entry. I can
take exceptionally large size attachments.
As much as you like "Reader 3", you will find more and more
PDF files that are a version or more beyond what it can handle
properly.
- Dov
At 5/8/2004 05:42 PM, Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote:
>OK thanks for all the suggestions about program hangs and crashes.
>
>I confirm that the machine on which malfunction occurred far exceeded the
>speed/HDD/RAM requirements stated for Reader on the specifications page.
>
>I solved the problems of crashes and hangs by backlevelling to Reader 4 which
>printed the file fine. The font problem may have recurred but it appears to
>be innocuous. The crashes were killing me.
>
>Aside from not crashing, Reader 4 also had another unusual behavior on which I'd
>welcome comment. Reader 5 has two very annoying habits
>
> 1 From time I key Ctrl-P until print-time page opens about 15 seconds elapses.
> 2 From time I click OK (after inputting page selection) until screen appears
> "Printing .... page" another 15 seconds elapses. During these two
> intervals the machine is not responsive to other input.
>
>However with Reader 4 response to Ctrl-P and OK is instantaneous. It
>is a tremendous timesaver when printing out a 500 page manual in
>batches of 20 pages.
>
>In fact I much prefer the screen presentation and controls of Reader 3 and
>use it whenever I can. However I have not yet installed it on this
>temporary machine.
>
>Font problem: Dov it is a 10 mb file. I can send it to you if you will advise
> me off-list of an e-mail address that can take such a file.
>Probably Canon should be told about it if the file is broken. We can
>all probably learn something from this about what 'not to do'. (IIRC
>there are problems cobbling files together generated in Word with TT fonts.
>I always use PS fonts and never use Word so never have these
>dificulties. Hope Adobe is proud of me :)
>
>I verified the "braindead" Windows problem of not releasing memory: Reader
>would behave differently depending on how long machine had been booted.
>Win98SE was not releasing memory as it should have
>
>Jeffrey Race
>
>On Tue, 04 May 2004 22:21:15 -0700, Dov Isaacs wrote:
>>At 5/4/2004 03:33 PM, Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote:
>>>Reader 5.1/English for Win98 gives me this error trying to print a Canon printer
>>>manual. Why is this and what should I do? >>Jeffrey Race
>>
>>One of several conditions could be causing this ...
>>
>>(1) Try restarting Acrobat Reader and printing again.
>>
>>(2) If it still doesn't print, try rebooting Windows'98.
>>The memory management system of Windows'9x/Me is quite
>>brain-dead causing problems as time between reboots increases,
>>especially with regards to use of certain 64Kbyte memory
>>pools that don't reclaim memory. That interferes with
>>the proper functioning of many programs such as Acrobat.
>>
>>(3) If it still doesn't print, try Reader 6.0.1.
>>
>>(4) If it still doesn't print, it could be a structural
>>problem with PDF file itself (such as being hacked together
>>via combination of multiple PDF files with differing versions
>>of Helvetica from different sources). I'd be interested in
>>you sending a copy of that PDF file to me so that I could
>>test it myself and if necessary, pass it along to the
>>Acrobat QA group. > - Dov
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