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Curious said Alice!
I wanted to close a Barclays savings account and downloaded a PDF to
allow me to do this by post. Each time I tried to print it Adobe Acrobat threw a wobbly and failed to print. Task manager showed two versions of ACRO RD 32.exe running both of which appeared to be active although one was hogging the processor time. Using Firefox on Windows 7 pro if it matters. -- Tim Lamb |
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Curious said Alice!
On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 20:41:43 +0000, Tim Lamb
wrote: I wanted to close a Barclays savings account and downloaded a PDF to allow me to do this by post. Each time I tried to print it Adobe Acrobat threw a wobbly and failed to print. Task manager showed two versions of ACRO RD 32.exe running both of which appeared to be active although one was hogging the processor time. Using Firefox on Windows 7 pro if it matters. Were you launching the .pdf directly from FF Tim? FWIW, whilst that often works for me here (XP / FF), it's often 'safer' to download the ..pdf and then print it from Acrobat / whatever (I can't answer your specific question). ;-) Cheers, T i m |
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Curious said Alice!
In message , T i m
writes On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 20:41:43 +0000, Tim Lamb wrote: I wanted to close a Barclays savings account and downloaded a PDF to allow me to do this by post. Each time I tried to print it Adobe Acrobat threw a wobbly and failed to print. Task manager showed two versions of ACRO RD 32.exe running both of which appeared to be active although one was hogging the processor time. Using Firefox on Windows 7 pro if it matters. Were you launching the .pdf directly from FF Tim? FWIW, whilst that often works for me here (XP / FF), it's often 'safer' to download the .pdf and then print it from Acrobat / whatever (I can't answer your specific question). ;-) Er... I was using Firefox to access the Barclays site. Visible on screen OK. Saved to my downloads file and then attempted to print through Acrobat. They'll do the job by telephone but I was planning to invest 63p rather than risk a queue on their helpline. -- Tim Lamb |
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Curious said Alice!
Tim Lamb wrote:
I wanted to close a Barclays savings account and downloaded a PDF to allow me to do this by post. Each time I tried to print it Adobe Acrobat threw a wobbly and failed to print. Task manager showed two versions of ACRO RD 32.exe running both of which appeared to be active although one was hogging the processor time. Using Firefox on Windows 7 pro if it matters. I presume you've tried the obvious and closed both versions down before trying to open the PDF again? And, in the words of help desks everywhere, "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" Tim -- Please don't feed the trolls |
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Curious said Alice!
En el artículo , Huge
escribió: I recently received a PDF which was only openable and printable from one of the three operating systems I have available. I recently received an airline boarding pass - one page of A4, which my printer refused to print, throwing a page with an "Out of memory" error. It has 128MB installed. "Portable", my arse. Aye. I suspect Microsoft's crappy "print to PDF" may be responsible, but am speculating. -- (\_/) (='.'=) systemd: the Linux version of Windows 10 (")_(") |
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Curious said Alice!
On 25/12/16 03:09, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo , Huge escribió: I recently received a PDF which was only openable and printable from one of the three operating systems I have available. I recently received an airline boarding pass - one page of A4, which my printer refused to print, throwing a page with an "Out of memory" error. It has 128MB installed. That is not a huge amount for a complex bitmap. at 1200 dpi and three bytes per pixel, and about 70 sq in of paper, that's easily more than 128Mbyte. "Portable", my arse. Aye. I suspect Microsoft's crappy "print to PDF" may be responsible, but am speculating. Postscript itself is an abortion that not even adobe can deal with. I am always surprised when it works at all. Print to PDF works well on Linux mostly. |
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Curious said Alice!
In article , Tim Lamb
scribeth thus I wanted to close a Barclays savings account and downloaded a PDF to allow me to do this by post. Each time I tried to print it Adobe Acrobat threw a wobbly and failed to print. Task manager showed two versions of ACRO RD 32.exe running both of which appeared to be active although one was hogging the processor time. Using Firefox on Windows 7 pro if it matters. Use Foxit reader works and its free!... -- Tony Sayer |
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Curious said Alice!
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 25/12/16 03:09, Mike Tomlinson wrote: En el artÃ*culo , Huge escribió: I recently received a PDF which was only openable and printable from one of the three operating systems I have available. I recently received an airline boarding pass - one page of A4, which my printer refused to print, throwing a page with an "Out of memory" error. It has 128MB installed. That is not a huge amount for a complex bitmap. at 1200 dpi and three bytes per pixel, and about 70 sq in of paper, that's easily more than 128Mbyte. "Portable", my arse. Aye. I suspect Microsoft's crappy "print to PDF" may be responsible, but am speculating. Postscript itself is an abortion that not even adobe can deal with. I am always surprised when it works at all. Print to PDF works well on Linux mostly. Not on the latest version of Elemental! I am told that you have to add a whole library to get proper results. The web is full of tales of woe. Worked OK on Ubuntu 10,4 with Okular and cups. |
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Curious said Alice!
On 26/12/16 14:44, Capitol wrote:
Print to PDF works well on Linux mostly. Not on the latest version of Elemental! Never heard of it. Linu8x printing uses CUPS and ghostscript to generate PDFs. I am told that you have to add a whole library to get proper results. Eh? I have to add 'whole new libraries' lmost any tie I install anythng anyway... The web is full of tales of woe. NOt for print to PDF. Worked OK on Ubuntu 10,4 with Okular and cups. N idea what okular is, either. |
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Curious said Alice!
On 26/12/16 16:53, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 26/12/16 14:44, Capitol wrote: Print to PDF works well on Linux mostly. Not on the latest version of Elemental! Never heard of it. Linu8x printing uses CUPS and ghostscript to generate PDFs. I am told that you have to add a whole library to get proper results. Eh? I have to add 'whole new libraries' lmost any tie I install anythng anyway... The web is full of tales of woe. NOt for print to PDF. Worked OK on Ubuntu 10,4 with Okular and cups. N idea what okular is, either. If you use OS X, you get print-to-PDF for free in all applications. It's built-in. so it is for Linux. Its part of CUPS. Which is the same system OSX uses. |
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Curious said Alice!
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 26/12/16 14:44, Capitol wrote: Print to PDF works well on Linux mostly. Not on the latest version of Elemental! Never heard of it. Linu8x printing uses CUPS and ghostscript to generate PDFs. I am told that you have to add a whole library to get proper results. Eh? I have to add 'whole new libraries' lmost any tie I install anythng anyway... The web is full of tales of woe. NOt for print to PDF. Worked OK on Ubuntu 10,4 with Okular and cups. N idea what okular is, either. Elemental is a stripped down version of Ubuntu with IMO a better UI. |
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Curious said Alice!
On 12/25/2016 1:09 AM, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artículo , Huge escribió: I recently received a PDF which was only openable and printable from one of the three operating systems I have available. I recently received an airline boarding pass - one page of A4, which my printer refused to print, throwing a page with an "Out of memory" error. It has 128MB installed. "Portable", my arse. Aye. I suspect Microsoft's crappy "print to PDF" may be responsible, but am speculating. I'm seeing more dodgy PDFs too. Foxit or Word or WPS sometimes work. |
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