Subscriber Carolyn wrote about a problem trying to print a Adobe PDF file: Hi Terry Can you tell me if there is a way to convert something on Acrobat 9.0 to a Word file? I have an 11-page Acrobat document that I want to print but every time I do, the first 2 pages come [...]
Reader Comments – Copying an Image from a PDF File
I answered a question from reader Glenn Wilkes, who wanted to know how to capture images that were in a PDF file and copy them into a Microsoft Word word processing file. This week, several readers wrote about alternate ways to accomplish the same thing. Longtime subscriber and frequent commenter Janusz Lukasiak wrote: Hello Terry, [...]
New Foxit Reader v3.0
There’s a new version of the light-weight PDF reader program that I use, called Foxit Reader 3.0. I got tired of Adobe Reader getting bigger and bulkier — and taking so much longer to start. Foxit Reader is a quick download, which install and quick starting, too. Foxit Software’s Foxit Reader 3.0 has one version, [...]
Adobe Reader Versions and When to Upgrade
Subscriber Diane wrote with a question about Adobe Reader, the program that reads .pdf files: I have Acrobat Reader 5.0 and lately couldn’t open some things. After being “advised” to download a later version, I got 6.0 downloaded but not installed. Then I saw info about 7.0 today. I’d REALLY like some advice about the [...]
Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Security Alert
US-CERT, the computer emergency response team that is now part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, on February 20, 2009, released a Cyber Security Alert warning about Adobe Reader versions 9 and earlier and Adobe Acrobat (Professional and Standard) versions 9 and earlier. According to the US-CERT release, the issue is that JavaScrpt, as [...]
Adobe Reader 8 Problems – And a Change to Foxit Reader
I started having a bunch of problems this week with my notebook jumping to 100% CPU usage. It wasn’t just a temporary problem either — at one point, I walked away for 30 minutes. When I returned to my computer, the problem was still there — and my computer was virtually useless. After a couple [...]
Adobe Acrobat Reader 8 Review
Adobe Systems Incorporated(www.adobe.com) has released a version 8 of their Adobe Reader program. While the software giant publishes many other premium-level programs, Adobe is best known for the its creation of the PDF document format that is used on almost all computers. Almost all electronics manufacturers, and many other manufacturers, too, now make their manuals [...]
Adobe Reader 9.2.0 is Better…
Well, I’ve run into a problem with my preferred PDF reader, Foxit Reader. This light-weight reader starts quickly and displays files quickly. It links into Internet Explorer and Firefox, so that it can display PDF files within the web browser, just like Adobe Reader does. Plus, it’s fast. I was rapidly getting tired of Adobe [...]
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