Andy Wade wrote:

John Rumm wrote:

Andy Wade wrote:

Now, does anyone know whether installing Acrobat Reader 7 or 8 will
screw-up my existing installation of (full) Acrobat 5.0?


When you find out, let me know ;-)


I was hoping you'd be the one to tell me... :~)

Hm, sorry about that, same boat he V5 full version installed and as
yet never found a serious need to have a later version. (I really ought
to upgrade to a later full version)

(chances are it will reassign you file associations to point at the
new reader - you could manually point them back of course)


That's probably the easy bit. Altering the interaction between
Acrobat/Reader and Firefox is another area of potential grief, IME...

Yup, it may do.

Of course another approach might be to find a "utility" that would
"convert" this PDF to one easier to read, if you follow my drift.

iText development suite for example... (handy the number of things it
can ignore (PDF restrictions, protection etc) ;-)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
[...]
Quite a nice way to experiment with software without any risk to your
stable platform. I have two WinXP MCEs and a SuSE Linux running in
parallel in their own windows now.


Interesting. Does it gobble all your resources and grind exceeding
slowly, though?

Gobble, a bit, but not too bad. A couple of virtual Win MCE systems
running on a Win MCE system took some 1300MB RAM. That was allocating
256MB to each VM - although the software actually suggests allocating
only 128MB for WinXP. Speed however seems not far off full speed. Disk
IO is a tad slower when accessing a hard file - but overall very usable.

I just did a quick test: on my Athlon 64 x2 plaform, the commit charge
was running at 662MB (had been running some heavy stuff previously).
Starting the VM maager added 5MB. Booting a complete VM into MCE took it
up to 938MB. So the actual footprint over and above that which is
allocated to the VM looks like it is only 20MB.

All in all pretty impressive I thought (remember that this was something
MS bought from connectix rather than developed themselves;-)

--
Cheers,

John.

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