Sharon, The pdf generator in Legacy comes with the print preview engine and is unfortunately creates an earlier version of the file that more current versions of Acrobat can't handle. The programmers have been looking around for one more up-to-date and reasonably priced to keep the cost of Legacy down.
I don't know why Acrobat has trouble opening and editing the file. I've never had trouble opening one in Acrobat Reader, at least v5 and 6. If you open the file in Acrobat Reader and do a File > Save A Copy, you can always create new copies of the file - I just did it and the copy looks as good as the original. Unfortunately, if you need to do edits, you'll need to regenerate the file. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Sharon Perdue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:22 AM To: Legacy, Support Subject: Fw: [LegacyUG] PDF files (Yes, Sharon, they are broken) What do you think? I need to make more copies of this same file, with some updates, and do NOT want to have to print the whole file again just to get the copies for 3 more people made. Sharon Perdue ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF files (Yes, Sharon, they are broken) > About a moon ago, Sharon was having trouble with PDF files. I was > interested in this problem so I cast about looking for a PDF > validator. I wasn't able to find much. There is a free, Java-based > toolkit called Multivalent that includes a .pdf validator. I > downloaded it but never got around to trying it. Until now. > > A small sample of .pdf files sized 100-300kB from a variety of online > sites (Adobe, Detroit Diesel, Leviton, and PowerQuest) all passed the > validation check. > > I tried two .pdf files from Legacy 5 build of 5 Sept 2004, a > Descendant > Chart (5kB) and a Descendant Narrative (25kB). Both failed to validate. > > These findings seem to correlate with the trouble Sharon experienced > at > Kinko's. At least some Legacy-generated .pdf files appear to be defective. > > At 9/23/2004 09:52 AM, Sharon Perdue wrote: >>I created a PDF file for a Descendant Narrative, copied it to a CD and >>took it to Kinko's to be printed and bound. They couldn't print it >>because of Postscript errors. They could see the file on their >>computer screen fine, but when it starts to print it skips the top >>part of the page, prints the middle of the page and then prints the >>postscript errors and stops. <snip> Kinko's said that there is >>probably some setting in the creation that doesn't work with >>Postscript. <snip> > > Dennis Nichols Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
