On 31 Jan 2006 at 20:57, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Um, go to the Start Menu, and select run. In the dialogue, type cmd.
This will bring up a DOS prompt. Type chkdsk /f. It will ask you if
you want to do this next time the system starts. Enter YES. Type Exit
Reboot It will do a check of you disk.
Well, there's this (which looks like a Win-compatible counterpart to
OS X's Preview):
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
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On 01 Feb 2006, at 3:05 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
I, for one, hate Acrobat
Acrobat reader, older versions, were dogs. The current reader version,
7, works great on Windows XP and Macintosh. It's especially good on the
Mac as the previous version really sucked. It's not slow at all. And
hard to use? It's one of the few programs I've never had to read the
manual to
David W. Fenton wrote:
I, for one, hate Acrobat Reader. I think it's incredibly poorly
designed and slow and hard to use. But it's all we've got,
unfortunately.
Not quite. I use the Ghostscript / Ghostview combination quite
satisfactory for most of my purposes.
ns.
On 1 Feb 2006 at 12:26, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Acrobat reader, older versions, were dogs. The current reader version,
7, works great on Windows XP and Macintosh. . . .
I have to disagee on Windows. The version 7 reader has overcome the
terrible performance problems of version 6, yes, but it
Yeah, I have been bitten by that one numerous times.
For weeks I wondered what the (*^)*%(^% I was doing wrong--nothing, as it
turns out.
But 7 does seem to be quicker, if less precise.
There's also the problem with the plugins not unloading properly from
memory when the host browsers are
I can't RTFM, or any other PDF file, and I've had serious problems with
them for months.
I have a Pentium 4 that's about three years old. Several months ago,
whether I click on PDFs or call up Acrobat Reader first, the files would
load EXTREMELY slowly. Now they won't load at all -
