Adobe Reader 5.x is really old. We are running Adobe Pro 7.0.8 and Reader
8.1.2 installed on our XP machines at work.
YMMV
She does have Acrobat Reader 5 for her Windows 2000. In my experience,
the Mac OS always adds the pdf extension when it creates a PDF file.
... I'm just curious that the
Yeah but the age of the reader should have little to do with it. If
anything, the older reader (5.x) will be faster and less buggy than
newer versions.
Larry
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Thanks Tom and Stewart, I will try to get her to update her Adobe
Reader.
Alvin
On Apr 29, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Yeah but the age of the reader should have little to do with it. If
anything, the older reader (5.x) will be faster and less buggy than
newer versions.
Reader
Thanks Jim. I tried it and it seemed to work, but when she received it
on her Windows machine, she couldn't open it. When I used the routine
built into OS 10, she had no trouble with it.
Alvin
On Apr 27, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Jim wrote:
On Apple's Automator Actions download page is the
The author described the same procedure for compressing a PDF you had
noting that his Automator workflow was supposed to reduce the number
of steps. I had assumed that was all he was doing, using Automator to
execute the same commands. Guess not! Odd that it would work on one
platform
I wrote to the Automator author to ask if he had seen this error
before and here is his reply:
Never. Could it be that the .pdf extension was missing? Or, perhaps
Acrobat reader was not installed on the Windows computer? What error,
exactly, was reported? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't want
She told me it said it couldn't be decoded. I don't have the actual
Windows error report.
I remember that when I used the Automator, the resulting file was very
small, something like around 45 KB. When I found that I could do the
compression with the OS, I didn't attempt to use the
On Apple's Automator Actions download page is the following:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/compresspdfworkflow.html
About Compress PDF Workflow
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) does not exhibit the “Compress PDF” workflow
on the Print dialog that used to appear in OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
Alvin,
Take the five color photos separately and open each in Preview. 'Save
As' dialog box gives a sliding scale at the bottom when you select JPEG.
Move the slider to the left for lower quality and your photo file size will
be much smaller.
I just took a +2MB photo, reduced quality to almost
When you make changes in a document to make it smaller, be sure to Save
As... to replace the original. The original may contain extraneous data
that you deleted, but are still in the file for to allow an Undo.
There's only one level of Undo in AppleWorks and Graphic Converter,
but it may be
Thanks Betty.
It turns out that Apple had the the solution to the problem built in
to OS 10! I just didn't realize it, but someone else told me about it.
Thanks, Steve Jobs and Apple!!
1. Make the PDF as usual, using the Print command and PDF Save as
PDF...
2. Open the PDF in Preview,
Send it via YouSendIt.com http://www.yousendit.com/
Alvin Auerbach wrote:
I've made a Real Estate Fact Sheet PDF for my GF, which looks nice but
is too large to email to her. The first page has five color photos and
weighs in at 25 MB.
My tools are a G5 iMac running Mac OS 10.5.2,
I've made a Real Estate Fact Sheet PDF for my GF, which looks nice but
is too large to email to her. The first page has five color photos and
weighs in at 25 MB.
My tools are a G5 iMac running Mac OS 10.5.2, AppleWorks, and
GraphicConverter. Somehow, even though I've tried to bring down
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