On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm running OS 10.5.8 on an iMac. Every time that I try to print something > with adobe reader, adobe reader crashes. If it's in safari, it brings safari > down with it. > > I just upgraded adobe reader from 9.2 to 9.3 and it still does it. > > I tried printing a PDF with photoshop CS3, but it only has the first page. > > I was sort of able to print things with open office, but was hoping someone > might be able to give me a hint on how to beat the adobe software into > shape. FWIW, my printer is a brother hl-2140.
I've not had this problem with the latest Adobe Reader v9.3 installed on any of the systems available to me (PowerPC G5 and G4, Intel MacBook) or with any OS installed (10.5.8 or 10.6.3). It is definitely something at issue in either your OS installation, printer driver installation, or Adobe Reader itself. Clearing out all the preference files that Adobe Reader uses is a good start to fixing the problem, the difficulty is seeing just which set of files in ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe, ~/Library/Preferences, and /Library/Application Support/Adobe are the important ones, and any caches used by Reader, is a bit on the tricky side. Try printing your documents with Preview rather than Adobe Reader. If that crashes, the problem could be the document itself. I've seen that happen. BTW: my tests have showed me that Preview does a better job in printing than Adobe Reader, at least on Mac OS X. I don't use the Adobe Reader plug-in with Safari: I prefer Safari's native handling of PDF files, and have found the plugin buggy. > This seems to be an example of how things just work on a mac, except when > they don't. Please, why start up another ridiculous round of sneering and jibing at an operating system? It's a waste of time and energy. It's a computer. Bugs happen. We fix them. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
