[sac-board] Re: March SACNEWS: Incorrect January Minutes

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 20:40:22 -0700, Jack Jones wrote:

> You may not see it from your end, but from this end, when I go get
> the PDF, it comes up blank and sits there totally blanko for many
> minutes and then suddenly pops onto the screen all at once, boom. If
> there are instructions, you should mention that. (The zip file is
> the same way.)  I have a 1.5 Ghz Pentium IV but I also have DellNet
> to counteract that. (Do you still recommend that ISP, don't remember
> what you called it?)  (Sorry to be slightly off-topic, but you're
> the moderator.)

Are you talking about opening the PDF over the internet or from your hard
disk?  If the internet, it does take time (minutes) to download the file
which is possibly your case.

I use Acrobat Reader (acroread) and xpdf under Linux, and with both, the
club's newsletter just pops up when accessed from my hard disk (on my 300
MHz laptop).  My web browser, Mozilla, doesn't launch xpdf until after
downloading the newsletter.

So I suggest insert an additional step:

  1.1) Download the newsletter to your hard disk either by right-clicking
       on the URL or shift-clicking.  Try running it locally from your
       hard disk.

The ISP I use is Cyber Trails (602-906-8790).

        -Paul

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