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Subject:PDFMaker difficulties From:Mark Dempsey <dempseys3 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L, a list for all technical communication issues" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 30 May 2000 19:23:47 -0700
When I installed PDFmaker to make Acrobat files from my Word 97 docs, I
had no luck doing so until I made a postscript printer my default. Then
I made HUGE pdfs from relatively small docs. I'll be working over the
compression settings to handle the file size, but in the meantime I have
a worse problem:
When I change my printer back to the actual printer I have (Epson 660
inkjet) from the postscript printer, the files I've been working on no
longer open and Word crashes!
Here's the error that appears before I shut Word down:
