Acrobat glitch
Sep 4, 2004 | 7:21 pm
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Acrobat glitch
I was printing out a 400+page manual. It is a .pdf file, and all was going nicely. Suddenly, it got to page 256 and then froze.
I had to reboot, and it did the same thing. In fact, just trying to print page 256 would freeze the machine. There is nothing unusual about that page. Pages 257 to the end worked just fine
OS: Win98SE
Acrobat: v. 5.0.5
All good computer geeks will immediately recognize 256 as the point where you roll over from 8 bits to 9, so this may have something to do with it.
Anybody have any clues? I wound up capturing the page as a screen shot and posting it into Power Point and then printing that. Sheesh!
I had to reboot, and it did the same thing. In fact, just trying to print page 256 would freeze the machine. There is nothing unusual about that page. Pages 257 to the end worked just fine
OS: Win98SE
Acrobat: v. 5.0.5
All good computer geeks will immediately recognize 256 as the point where you roll over from 8 bits to 9, so this may have something to do with it.
Anybody have any clues? I wound up capturing the page as a screen shot and posting it into Power Point and then printing that. Sheesh!
Sep 4, 2004 | 8:53 pm
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I've seen it happen with a 40 page document, so it may not be the 8 to 9 bit thing. There was something on that page it didn't like, in my experience usually a graphic. You could spend hours fiddling with it, it won't print.
If you have photoshop by the way, you can open the pdf in that, tell it what page, and print from there, it will be a better quality then a screen print would be.
If you have photoshop by the way, you can open the pdf in that, tell it what page, and print from there, it will be a better quality then a screen print would be.
Sep 7, 2004 | 4:43 am
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Can you print pages 257 and beyond? If so that would support Cordelli's suggestion that it is something on page 256. I have had similar experiances on different pages, so I doubt it is the bit issue. I am not sure why, but often for just changing the output to a different printer solves the problem.
Sep 7, 2004 | 4:29 pm
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How about this:
Go to add/remove programs and remove Acrobat 5.
Then, go here and download the new version, it's now called Adobe Reader. See if that fixes you up.
Also, Windows 98 is getting old and is starting to lose support by new software, so if you can, see if you can get updated to Windows XP.
Go to add/remove programs and remove Acrobat 5.
Then, go here and download the new version, it's now called Adobe Reader. See if that fixes you up.
Also, Windows 98 is getting old and is starting to lose support by new software, so if you can, see if you can get updated to Windows XP.
Sep 8, 2004 | 9:31 am
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Originally Posted by BeCarlson
How about this:
Go to add/remove programs and remove Acrobat 5.
Then, go here and download the new version, it's now called Adobe Reader. See if that fixes you up.
Also, Windows 98 is getting old and is starting to lose support by new software, so if you can, see if you can get updated to Windows XP.
Go to add/remove programs and remove Acrobat 5.
Then, go here and download the new version, it's now called Adobe Reader. See if that fixes you up.
Also, Windows 98 is getting old and is starting to lose support by new software, so if you can, see if you can get updated to Windows XP.
Sep 8, 2004 | 2:59 pm
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The computer at work runs Win2000 and has Acrobat 5.0.1. It read and printed the page just fine.
Hey!... 98SE is a step up for me! I'm not exactly what you call a bleeding edge guy --- been burned too many times.
And, Scott, thank you for your well-reasoned response. You may well be right, but out in the world of non-geeks (you've probably seen one or two of them from time to time), Acrobat allows a convenient distribution of printed data to anybody anywhere with a reasonable expectation that it will print just as you want it to. 62-1/2 gazillion .pdf files can't all be wrong.
Hey!... 98SE is a step up for me! I'm not exactly what you call a bleeding edge guy --- been burned too many times.
And, Scott, thank you for your well-reasoned response. You may well be right, but out in the world of non-geeks (you've probably seen one or two of them from time to time), Acrobat allows a convenient distribution of printed data to anybody anywhere with a reasonable expectation that it will print just as you want it to. 62-1/2 gazillion .pdf files can't all be wrong.
Sep 8, 2004 | 3:15 pm
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Originally Posted by BigLar
The computer at work runs Win2000 and has Acrobat 5.0.1. It read and printed the page just fine.
Hey!... 98SE is a step up for me! I'm not exactly what you call a bleeding edge guy --- been burned too many times.
And, Scott, thank you for your well-reasoned response. You may well be right, but out in the world of non-geeks (you've probably seen one or two of them from time to time), Acrobat allows a convenient distribution of printed data to anybody anywhere with a reasonable expectation that it will print just as you want it to. 62-1/2 gazillion .pdf files can't all be wrong.
Hey!... 98SE is a step up for me! I'm not exactly what you call a bleeding edge guy --- been burned too many times.
And, Scott, thank you for your well-reasoned response. You may well be right, but out in the world of non-geeks (you've probably seen one or two of them from time to time), Acrobat allows a convenient distribution of printed data to anybody anywhere with a reasonable expectation that it will print just as you want it to. 62-1/2 gazillion .pdf files can't all be wrong.
Then version 6 came along.
And that is where they messed up.
As for the world of the "non geek", I am a huge user of PDF files, and have probably created many hundreds of thousands of documents myself, my own office is completely paperless and documents are fed into HP Digital senders to turn them into PDF files, and I have servers that do nothing but store our PDF files, but Adobe better be careful or the era of the PDF will be over.
Sep 8, 2004 | 6:07 pm
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Slightly OT, but oh well here goes:
Why does my Acrobat take a LOT longer to load a document with Firefox vs. than with IE? It seems to take forever to load, and also forever to close the window once I am done reading. IE is quick and smooth (oddly enough!). Anybody else have this issue?
Why does my Acrobat take a LOT longer to load a document with Firefox vs. than with IE? It seems to take forever to load, and also forever to close the window once I am done reading. IE is quick and smooth (oddly enough!). Anybody else have this issue?
Sep 8, 2004 | 6:16 pm
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Originally Posted by jumpmonger23
Slightly OT, but oh well here goes:
Why does my Acrobat take a LOT longer to load a document with Firefox vs. than with IE? It seems to take forever to load, and also forever to close the window once I am done reading. IE is quick and smooth (oddly enough!). Anybody else have this issue?
Why does my Acrobat take a LOT longer to load a document with Firefox vs. than with IE? It seems to take forever to load, and also forever to close the window once I am done reading. IE is quick and smooth (oddly enough!). Anybody else have this issue?
What OS are you running ?
What version of Firefox/IE are you running?
From the onset there's no real reason why this would occur, but that's not saying I've seen it before.
Which one of the two is set as your default browser ? As stupid as it sounds, I'm guessing that your default browser is loading the pdf quicker than the non-preferred.
Sep 8, 2004 | 7:29 pm
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I had this problem while printing the manual for my Yamaha receiver not to long ago. Certain images were causing problems. I think I solved the problem by printing as an image. I can't seem to find that option in Acrobat 6 but that's what I did and it worked.
Sep 10, 2004 | 2:45 pm
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A while back I stumbled across a neat way to speed up the Acrobat load times. Basically when Acrobat loads, it also loads a bunch of other crap that it doesn't need and just slows down your computer. Here is how to speed it up:
1. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader
2. Create a new folder called plug_ins_disabled.
3. Move all files from the plug_ins folder to the plug_ins_disabled folder EXCEPT EWH32.api, printme.api, and search.api.
4. You're done.
More info here http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=20055
1. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader
2. Create a new folder called plug_ins_disabled.
3. Move all files from the plug_ins folder to the plug_ins_disabled folder EXCEPT EWH32.api, printme.api, and search.api.
4. You're done.
More info here http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=20055
Last edited by BeCarlson; Sep 10, 2004 at 2:47 pm
Sep 10, 2004 | 5:31 pm
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Originally Posted by BeCarlson
A while back I stumbled across a neat way to speed up the Acrobat load times. Basically when Acrobat loads, it also loads a bunch of other crap that it doesn't need and just slows down your computer. Here is how to speed it up:
1. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader
2. Create a new folder called plug_ins_disabled.
3. Move all files from the plug_ins folder to the plug_ins_disabled folder EXCEPT EWH32.api, printme.api, and search.api.
4. You're done.
More info here http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=20055
1. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader
2. Create a new folder called plug_ins_disabled.
3. Move all files from the plug_ins folder to the plug_ins_disabled folder EXCEPT EWH32.api, printme.api, and search.api.
4. You're done.
More info here http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=20055
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