atw: Re: Tip for creating PDFs

Michael, I went the other way and downgraded Word to 2000.  Worked like =
a
charm.  Plus the bugs I ran into in Word were ones I know how to work =
around
(images, numbered lists and styles seem to be worse than ever in newer
versions of Word) :) =20

I had tried updating Acrobat, it did nothing for that particular issue.
Ditto for turning off background printing.

*shrug*

In my experience, at times all one can do is shudder, esp. when using =
Word
too much :)

- Naomi

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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Edward
Granat
Sent: Monday, 1 March 2004 11:24 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Tip for creating PDFs


Dear Naomi (Kramer),

First make sure that you have the Acrobat 5.05 patch (you can do Web =
based=20
updates from the Acrobat).

 From Acrobat 5 proper, not the Reader: Edit > Preferences > General (or =

Ctrl+K) > Update, then click the Update Acrobat Now button.

But, as far as I am aware, Windows XP and Office XP/2003 were released=20
after Acrobat 5 (which is copyright to 2001) so it is a bit hard for it =
to=20
have been designed with that in mind.  You can't very well ask for a two =

year old application to work flawlessly with a later environment.

Your best bet, if you are working with the latest is to, well, work with =

the latest and go get Acrobat 6.

Also, if you are working with Word, as it seems, turn off background=20
printing, which sucks system resources big time and only run Word and=20
Acrobat Distiller / Acrobat proper to use less RAM.

Don't shudder, just upgrade.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Michael Granat
Write Ideas

At 11:49 1/3/2004, you wrote:
>Don't install Adobe Acrobat 5 on a system with Office XP/2003, then run =

>the Distiller from the Acrobat toolbar in Word.
>
>*shudder*
>
>Small documents seem to work OK (they take forever, though).  Large=20
>documents just... erm.. crawl off and die.  Especially if they use=20
>bookmarks, cross referencing etc.
>
>- Naomi

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