'Computer Problem' with Adobe

[alant]

\'Computer Problem\' with Adobe

I have recently upgraded from Adobe 5.0 to 6.0 (since deleted) & now 7.0.
However, the document I download (26 pages), which specified this upgrade, still can only be read from page 12 onward.
Anyone else had similar, or can suggest a remedy please. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[davel]

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I've not had this particular problem but I did suffer others.
Sorted most of the serious problems by downloading the latest upgrades from their Site

 

[BigLes]

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Sounds like the PDF file might be corrupted. Send a copy to someone else and see if they can open it.

 

[pappaecho]

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My son isa document controller and uses Abobe Acrobat to produce pdf files on a daily basis There are problems with both V6 and V 7. Versions 5 and 4 are perfectly OK. If they have a complaint about a pdf file they test it on V 5, if it works, then it is the version which is causing the problem not the file. I still use V4

 

[LittleShip]

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Swop you for a crap one with Norton on it?/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[TrueBlue]

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Awful shame 'cos Acrobat 5 is slow to load and 6 is even slower.

Pain.

Acro 7.0 reader on the other hand is like ordure off a garden implement.

I've got rid of some of the problems by using Regedt and removing all references to earlier versions.

If you're talking about the full version - then there are dire warnings about in unstalling earlier versions first....


'Problem is Adobe is all about Apple boxes, they don't understand Mr. Gates (wh does) or IBM (ditto).

 

[trouville]

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Apple rubbish, i bought one a while ago,couldent use it,couldent find anyone who would set it up unless i paid £50 and left it for the week. Quick time is awful and i had been wondering why anyone uses a pfd,aful too. Now i know why.

Its a pity apple isent the 98% provider and MS 2% then i would be happly useing the underdog system,which works far better than apple--that crashes often,has no soft wear and costs a fortune, Ive tried it and hate it. Trying to change from MS cost me £1200 ever tried to sell an apple-you will be offerd nothing even when a few months old.

 

[Benbow]

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Apple rubbish, i bought one a while ago,couldent use it,couldent find anyone who would set it up unless i paid £50 and left it for the week. Quick time is awful and i had been wondering why anyone uses a pfd,aful too. Now i know why.

Its a pity apple isent the 98% provider and MS 2% then i would be happly useing the underdog system,which works far better than apple--that crashes often,has no soft wear and costs a fortune, Ive tried it and hate it. Trying to change from MS cost me £1200 ever tried to sell an apple-you will be offerd nothing even when a few months old.

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I disagree with your opinions; I switched to mac after a lifetime with dos and windows and still haven't stopped smiling. The difference is unbelievable, I could never go back to windows.

And some of your assertions are wrong.

Macs hold their value very well. Look on ebay if you doubt it.

My mac has never crashed - no never. One or 2 programmes have crashed (both microsoft as it happens). But the OS has never batted an eyelid. Stop the crashed programme and carry on. I struggle to understand why yours should be different to everyone elses.

No software? That was the major reason I resisted even considering a mac. Having switched I realise it is not true. I now run virtual PC for only 1 programme - ms access. Everything else I need is available for mac, and literally 1000's of unix-based programmes (great for my bioinformatics work) are available for OSX but NOT windows.

I am very sorry you had a bad experience, but I believe you are the exception. There are subtle differences in the interface, I suppose these could cause confusion if you don't realise what they are, but it took me about 5 minutes before I was saying 'wow, this is fantastic, why couldn't windows do that'.

When I read all the agony about antivirus and firewall issues here, I have to resist the temptation to say 'buy a mac!'.

And as for programme installation - It took me a while to believe it could be so easy. Unlike windows where a programme insinuates itself into your system in a devious way and is a pain to install and impossible to remove, with a mac you just drag it to wherever you want it - and that's it!

Sorry, I am beginning to sound a bit evangelical.

 

[alant]

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took your advice & deleted all previous versions & then tried again to download, only to get an error message that Internet Explorer had blocked file from downloading, but an option was to save the document to a file in pdf. Tried this & still u/s, got directed back to Adobe main site & re-installed 7.0
Seems to be working at present ta! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

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Apple rubbish, I bought one a while ago,couldent use it,

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Oh dear!
I've used Macs and pcs for a few years. If I didn't have to use a pc for some of the software and user compatability I would upgrade my Mac and have done with the pc.
Very few viruses are written for Macs, and those that do get onboard are easy to get rid of.
If you use a Mac for image work the mouse control is just SO much more precise.
They really don't crash much, they shut down when you tell them and installing programmes is a doddle, you can even run them from cds.
I only bought a pc to test websites on and now I seem to be stuck with it.

 

[trouville]

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I agree DOS ie disaster,the "technicans" are out of work with XP ive just been re re er installing win 95 and win 98 pewww time and boreing in DOS then winME well better?? but XP just perfect, my children have been brought up on mac in school,can they make a web page? can they install mac on dial up or cable or adsl can they add soft wear(what little there is--the answer is NO.
They now have PCs IBM and Sony wide screen they use their laptops everyday set up web pages install softwear work on sort wear for fun! helping firefox improving win amp?? just a question how much does the soft wear cost to develop (its the wine) web sites---mac is high price crap

 

[Benbow]

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can they install mac on dial up or cable or adsl can they add soft wear(what little there is--the answer is NO.

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Your comments are utterly baffling. Not even the most pro windows anti Mac person can claim that software installation is easier on windows. Perhaps thats where your kids are going wrong, you don't 'install' programmes on a Mac in the sense that you do on windows - you just use them! And, as I said, there is loads of lovely Mac software. Depends what you do, but for my applications the Mac choice is very much wider.

Dial-up and adsl problems? Again this makes no sense.

What mac OS have you been using ?

 

[trouville]

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Adobe v4 is really fast! Ive just been reinstalling winME i have adobe 7.0 on a new IBM but the v4.0 on an old "slow" PC is far faster loading, There are quite a few applications by now where the older softwear is better,providing it dose what you need.
As for the mac or PC just two small programs www.eprompter.com and www.offbyone.com browser are just two of thousands of increadably good and useful programs mac users cant.

As for ease well ive put the mac with osX and PC with winXP on the kitchen table then i asked the post woman to set up a dial up connection and go on line from a French telecom CD rom the PC went automaticaly and she followed the instructions then downloaded and installed eprompter

With the mac she tried to do the same but could not get online, then i asked a someone else and two freinds of my Daughter and a freind of my son that uses mac in school all managed with the PC non with the mac!
I asked the teacher resoposiable for the macs if she could set it up she coulent she had to call someone else who would come when needed,that person was far to busy.

We then went to a mac shop (where we bought it,) for just 100euros they would set it up!!! Given a choise that i have between an old compaq with win 98 or a new ibook with osX im thaking the old compaq onboard--when i find out how to load the charts in seaclear and will use seatty and cwtype with my SSB.Oh and useing cwtype i can keep in touch send and receive copies of email useing just 10watts helps keep my hull fittings and keel from falling off!

 

[kimhollamby]

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Have you tried the latest version of Virtual PC? It's almost workable now as long as you don't want to play PC games, the least clunky emulator yet.

For compatibility testing also have a look at:

http://www.browsercam.com/

 

[Benbow]

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There you go, what more can I say. Kim is clearly a Mac user, I could always tell you were a discerning and intelligent person.

I am using vpc7 and it seems to work well. Obviously it will never be great because its purpose in life is to emulate windows!

But seriously, there are issues and things to consider. Perhaps most importantly the software you intend to use. But what trouville says is seriously strange.

 

[trouville]

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re reading my earlier posts i see i was quite angry, but haveing waised £1200 including a printer which 12months and one day later gave up.
On the other hand i have never ever had a wind indicator neither dirction or speed,but for £150 i could have a target and £600 a simrad! I could also buy a navik wind vane for my Folkboat to be for about£1000
I could also buy an acer with XP P4 £400 plus a new canon printer £150 plastimo headsail system new main with slab reef. But i bought an apple!!Now we hear that schools are getting PCs

At least apple users are happy but as ive said else where in another thread ive yet to find an apple user that will show us how to use an apple ive been told to go to a shop and pay, with my old PC win95 and 98 i used to go along to a shop supermarket or another win user where whatever problem there was was fixed and without any question of payment.
Now im going back to dreaming about my Folkboat which i will get as soon as the snow?? goes--the one i wants in Denmark, i wonder if Denmark has boat chandlers?online---hear its cold and sunny hard to imagin snow burrrr

 

[BrendanS]

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I've point trouville at a whole bunch of helpful websites for Mac users in the past on website feedback forum, but he really doesn't seem to want to help himself.

 

[trouville]

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Ah yes!! well i dident know you would look at this thread!!
Its quite true and the site you pointed me provided me with all the help i needed,and indeed told me that they were there for any other questions and to help get me going!!
However,in the meen time i gave it to the school so they had another mac (they only had two for the whole class) when they get their PCs paid for by the state, i will get my mac back, then i will use those very helpful links you gave!

Since your hear i will say that im really going to try to use it, i had intended just leaving it on to download music charts books videos and so that we can "skype"(internet phone) home In the meen time the Government under pressure from the USA has forbidden downloading copywrited material on pain of large fines and ips cut off!! so sadly i can only imagin what ive missed.

I wonder why mac users are so passionet about there system?

Ill also admit to you that i dont line microsoft. Its latest antispywear assumes that firefox mozzila opera dont exist i find MS very greedy and just lately wished there was another alternative other than Linux which i dont understand either!!
All these mac users

 

[BrendanS]

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well i dident know you would look at this thread!!


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[trouville]

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This forum provides lots of info and links to crusing areas, product evaluation(id never thought about chart plotters) and as in every forum the mac v PC question.

I hadent thought this link would turnout this way. The mac with os9 and 600mhz processor bought early 2001 we couldent give away nor use the kind help we got from your link which got a 2 page print out from a link we were redirected to explaining how to set up the ppp connection.It still dident connect though.

Then Stupid as i am and i hadent wanted to admit it,but since your hear i will,while in Switzerland,i found a powerbook osX the osx seemed to be user freindly i bought it, later i found that almost all the softwear i use is PC only and amazingly i still couldent get it on line, rather than bin this one as i did out of frustration with the other one which we also couldent sell for an asking price of just 50 euros, we gave it to the school.

I then orderd online an IBM X40 it arrived a week later in a large brown box delivered to the door.I unpacked it read the one page quick start, added the ram module, batterie pluged in the mains adapter in pressed the button as directed,while it was starting i switched on the d-link wi-fi router 10/15 mins later i was connected within half an hour i had firewall antivirus installed firefox and thunderbird running.

For just £1000 i have a super light fast PC which runs for more than 7 hours on its small batterie more than enough to write letters emails read from a book without haveing to find a plug. unlike apple users the wi-fi has better range as the antenner is not just a piece of wire dangling from the batterie compartment.

I now understand why apple users can be found grouped together at airports in not always the most comfortale part--their wi-fi dosent have the range!!!

From now on im not going to enter another pc v mac thread,as it is i spend far to much time at the keyboard.

working online has both advantages and disadvantages !!! Happly my IBM PC works so well and the OS so easy to use i can spend my non work related time online to dreaming about and finding equipment for my new Folkboat to be,far more interesting than walloing around in forums and links needed to understand and use an OS soon to be obsoleat,particularly when when theres an alternative win XP.