atw: Re: Tip for creating PDFs
- From: Michael Edward Granat <megranat@xxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:24:16 +1100
Dear Naomi (Kramer),
First make sure that you have the Acrobat 5.05 patch (you can do Web based
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
after Acrobat 5 (which is copyright to 2001) so it is a bit hard for it to
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
printing, which sucks system resources big time and only run Word and
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
>documents just... erm.. crawl off and die. Especially if they use
>bookmarks, cross referencing etc.
>
>- Naomi
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