Posts Tagged ‘PDF’

Free PDF Writer

By now, most ever­yone has noti­ced that PDF files have become the pre­vai­ling for­mat for secure and relia­ble dis­tri­bu­tion of elec­tro­nic documents.

So how do you, the nor­mal per­son, create these handy files without paying an arm and a leg? I have found a great and easy ans­wer. CutePDF wri­ter.  I admit, it’s not as full fea­tu­red as the pay ver­sion by Adobe, but for the savings, I can do without those fea­tu­res anyways.

Like with the MS Office pro­ducts, it appears that the more you pay for the pro­gram, the more “fea­tu­res” you will never use in your life.  I know someone somewhere would have a use for them, but at least for me, they just slow me down and make the pro­duct cost more then it’s worth.

I per­so­nally like the way CutePDF works, no inter­face to deal with, no con­fi­gu­ra­tion.  Ins­tall and go. I like plain and simple.

When you get the pro­duct ins­ta­lled, to create a PDF all you have to do is print.  That’s all.  You have a web­page (I know this one is at the top of your list) that you want to con­vert, go to file print and select the CutePDF Prin­ter.  You can use this con­ver­ter for any appli­ca­tion you can print from.  For the price you can’t beat it.

Adobe Acrobat/Reader Error

I have another error that has come from real world expe­rience.  I had a cus­to­mer that was run­ning Vista with Adobe Acro­bat Pro 8.1 (fully upda­ted) and Acro­bat Rea­der 9.1 (fully upda­ted) that was una­ble to open PDF’s from either email or a web page.  Every time it was tried, the follo­wing error was generated:

The Adobe Acrobat/Reader that is run­ning can not be used to view PDF files in a Web Brow­ser. Adobe Acrobat/Reader ver­sion 8 or 9 is requi­red. Please exit and try again

Even the sys­tem log gave such a cryp­tic error refe­ren­cing an unk­nown faul­ting module.

I tried everything inc­lu­ding: unchec­king the open PDF in brow­ser option in both Adobe pro­grams, res­to­ring Inter­net Explo­rer set­tings to default.  I was going crazy.

On the verge of unins­ta­lling and reins­ta­lling both appli­ca­tions, which is never my favo­rite option, I ope­ned the Rea­der and went to Help on the main tool­bar and selec­ted the “Repair Adobe Rea­der Installation”.

After that was com­ple­ted no more error.  I even tes­ted by switching the default pdf appli­ca­tion bet­ween Rea­der and Pro.  No further issues.

By loo­king around I see this is a very com­mon error with Rea­der 9.  I hope this helps.