SECOND: Are you sure you only have ONE version of Adobe. If you have the older 3.x or 4.x they remain on the computer after installing 5.x or 6.x. If you click the manual and get a statement: 'file is damaged and cannot open' I would bet your version of Adobe is too old to open an encrypted Adobe file. Try to Right Click the file and save to your HD and open it from there making sure Adobe 5.X or higher is opening the file.
If that doesn't work, open Adobe 7.x or higher from the menusystem and using the Adobe's FILE - OPEN and go to your saved file.
The old Adobe versions can be removed separately via Add / Remove programs.Sometimes they are set to open any PDF via a web page, where as the newerinstalls open only when a PDF file is opened from a hard drive. Hence theproblem at times, Explorer can be set to use an older version of Adobe.
THIRD: there are known problems of opening certain PDF files INSIDE Explorer. This is an Internet Explorer problem. I've removed that feature from my computer and never had a problem since. To have a PDF file open Adobe by itself:
Go to the Adobe program. Start - Programs - Adobe Acrobat
EDIT - PREFERENCES - INTERNET and click OFF the checkmarkfor OPEN IN BROWSER.
Now when you open a PDF file it will open Adobe.
Have you downloaded the PDF to your PC? If you have, tryopening them directly with Adobe 6 by going through FILE - OPEN - then locatethe PDF you downloaded. If it now opens, use the suggestion above.
AOL - I have heard AOL is not great for pulling up PDFfiles. Try the 'Right Click' and save the file to your HardDrive and open it from the saved area. OR CLOSE AOL's version of Internet Explorer. Open up Internet Explorerby itself, go to my site www.orphancameras.com and open the PFD file. You bypass most AOL problems that way.
MAC computers - you're on your own with Adobe, mylink to 5.1 is for PC only. You still must have Adobe 5.0 or above to openit.
HTML pages - I have spent hours making PDF files of most of the oldHTML manuals (standard WEB page). If you find a HTML page and need to print it decent, just copy the page and place it into Word. Change margins to .3' on all sides and move the text by adding 'ENTER'. If need be, E-mail me with the exact page and I'll do it and post it as an additional link on that page. Printing the HTML manual pages will just cut the pageswhere everit wants, throw pictures on a single page. Really mess up thelooks. That's why Adobe came up with PDF (Portable Document File) so everyonewould beable to have the same output. The good thing on HTML pages arethe pageswere scanned as TEXT so the text printout is perfect. Abet somespellingerrors were overlooked, missing words and other problems. All together it took 5 to 7 hours to doone manual. Plus the HTML images were scanned in the old 480X640screenformat. So the images would fill half the page back in 1995-1999.Withcurrent 17'monitors came 800X600 resolution and then LCD's at1280X720. Sothose images seem smaller unless you choose 'full screen' for theolder camera manual pages.
The PDF files are scanned at 600dpi (B&W) or 400dpi(color). They are mostly scanned as original size unless they arephysically, tinymanuals. I then scan the entire book at 135% or higher. This bringsout wear and tear defects and enlarges the 'dots' of any photos. I have started to scan the 'camera parts' sections at130% or more. This helps with detail when finding the parts of a camera, scanning at thisenlarged rate also allows better printing.
When you open Adobe, you will see a %enlargement box almost in the center of the top of the menu. You canenlarge or reduce that number to see detail of parts or hard to read text on thescreen. When enlarging, you may have to scroll to see the entirepage.
PRINTING AN ENLARGED PAGE: If you have the file open in Adobe (not necessarily sure if this happens if the PDF opens in Explorer) and you enlarge it. You can choose 'Print Current View' and the enlarged view will print. You can preview it to see how it will print in that little preview box. This is a nice feature if I scanned a book with two pages and you want a single page. Depending on the enlargement, the quality may suffer a bit.
Printing is another thing! Increasing the VIEW size hasnothing to do with print size (unless you do what I state above). Since I scan at a high resolution you canchange the standard printing of adobe pages. Laser Jet printers: If youhave an older model (HP IIIP or IV L ) that only prints 300dpi, the page images willalways turn out crummy. Just a technology change. Models that print600dpi will print much clearer, mostly any printer after 1995 should have noproblem. Ink Jets usually print nice, but you many have to adjust the DPI(dots per inch) setting. Dot Matrix printer, I would doubt if they would printlegible images. All PDF files (pages) are pictures, not text. The HTMLpages aretext with separate images added. So the older HTML will always printbeautiful text as the printer sees it as standard letters. Plus laserjetswill easily print text and small pictures quickly. On the other had a PDFis a huge 'images' and will print slowly.
When you choose an Adobe manual choose - FILE - PRINT look for aselection called PAGE SCALING.
Choose a page with an image on it. TRY THIS ONLY ON ONE PAGE by choosing in thePRINT MENU - PRINT CURRENT PAGE. Then choose 'Fit to page' onthe page scaling choice. You should see the actual page you will print ANDthe size it will print on the PRINT SETTINGS preview area. By printing onepage you can see if the 'fit to page' works better then the standardprinting method.
PRINTING IN COLOR or entire manuals at once ! !
Ink jet printers. If you try to print the old HTMLpages with color backgrounds, print a test page. If it starts printing thecolor background - STOP. You will empty your color cartridge realquick. Just a warning. Look under your printing options, you shouldsee a choice 'do not print background' under 'PRINTING' -'ADVANCED'. Uncheck that option. Now you will only printthe text and images, not the background color. SOME printers do that or were setthat way as the default. This may need to be reset if you use older PrintShop programs. Those program need to 'print background color'.
LaserJet - See above test if you have a colorlaserjet ! Also, if you have a color or B&W laserjet,you many not be able to print an entire book at once. Depending on theamount of memory IN THE PRINTER, a color camera manual may give problems. Easy solution. In the print menu, choose 'Print Range' then'Print Pages' then choose printing pages 1 to 10, after thatfinishes then 11 to 20 and so on. Laserjets try to capture the entireprint job at once. Black and White laserjets MAY have the sameproblem. I divided the big manuals into parts, this helps indownloading and printing. The older HTML pages will try to print as awhole document, you may need to split the manual into sections. See aboveabout the older HTML pages. They print any which way. Some day a PDFversion will be available.
Want to be creative. If you want a HTML page to print correctly, and I did not PDF the manual, do it yourself. When in Internet Explorer, FireFox or Opera open with the HTML manual. Click EDIT then Select All. The page should grey out. Then open Word (or whatever Word Processor you have) change the page margins to .3 (point 3 inch) on top, bottom, left, right and then choose EDIT - PASTE. Once in Word you can move thing around, resize pictures a bit, add spaces to move text to the next page. You can then save and print it. If you have one of the free PDF creators, you can save as a PDF file. That's how I do it.
Older laserjets. If you have a great HP II, III or4 series. The max resolutions (number of dots) it can print is some 300dpi. This will give not so great print outs of images or text. If you have the ability,change the dpi (dots per inch) to 600. This will give you greatprints. The more DPI, the slower the pages will print. You manyget the 'out of memory' or 'memory overload' when trying toprint the whole manual at once. Again, turn off the printer, count to 5,then turn it on. If the printer continues to give 'Out of Memory'right after the printer starts, the print job is in the cache. Youmust erase the 'job' by going to START - SETTINGS - PRINTERS - Rightclick on the printer and choose OPEN. A list of print 'jobs'will be displayed. Right click on the job and choose DELETE. Nowyour printer will start correctly.
Then print at 600 dpi trying only 5 pages at a time orless. Some of the older HP laserjets came with basic memory (256K, notmegs!). Printing text was never a problem because the printer had the textletters built in. A PDF is a bunch of DOTS, printing and remembering some600,000 dots per page is a challenge. So if you have a memory errorprinting 5 pages at a time, try one page at a time. You shouldn't have towait for each page to exit the printer, just choose to only print page 1, thenchoose only page 2, then only page 3, the computer will cut the pages and holdthem in the computer's memory (hard drive) until the printer is ready for thenext single or group of pages. Or these days, copy the file to a memorystick, take it to work and print it there on their $3,200 network printer !There you go... Also try your local library, they charge per page but usually not that much.
-- Problems --
Many of my older manuals are HTML (basicweb page). These pages will translate the camera manual (as good as anyfree translator can) text to the four languages above. Actually if you goto the main page, it will translate the entire web page as you go through thesite. The manuals were scanned first for the images, then again, forthe text with a OCR (optical character reader). They were then pasted togetherto make it look like a manual again. This was back in 1996 until 2003 when I changed over to PDF. So the older HTML manuals are justthat. If you are picky, you can save the Web Page and then try to open them upin Word or something and add blank spaces to move them around. Printingthem is a pain. Remember, paperless society ! There are no codes to makethem print on certain pages. Nothing fancy here. If you are ondial-up. The images on the HTML pages may take time to load. Sometimes just rightclicking on any blank images and click 'show' will reload it ifneeded. If you want to save it, for further reference, choose in yourbrowser 'FILE' and SAVE AS, then CREATE A SEPARATE FOLDER under your'MY DOCUMENTS' named the camera name. This will save the HTMLand images in that folder. If you don't create a separate folder, you'regoing to have problems. You can also click 'refresh' if all the images don'tshow. If you have a problem, write to me. I have solved all of them. Hence the move to PDF. [ or use the COPY and PASTE into Word (or other Word Processor program) and resize images and add spaces to move text around.] The entire page prints just like the manual. Iscanned them large enough to make them very readable. BUT, will print the sizeof the scanned page on an 8 1/2 x 11 page. Hence the help section above. Ifyou have an older printer or laserjet, it may only be a 300dpi printer andnothing will help get great quality images on the pages. The PDF files are DOTS so ifyou enlarge the page the text 'DOTS' are larger and don't look asnice. The HTML pages are actual letters, so they print excellent text andimages. They just took 4 to 5 hours to create just one manual. Those willbe slowly converted to PDF so you will have a choice.
YOU MUST HAVE Adobe 7.0 or above to CLICKon the file or OPEN it. That's the standard setting when I'm saving onmy Adobeprogram I have. I added a link above to version 5.1 if you have an oldercomputer with not much memory or disk space. Version 6.1 is pretty big andmemory hungry. I'm sure Version 7.1 and 8.1 is even bigger in download size and memoryrequirements. The Adobe files are created with Version 8, with securityfeatures added. You cannot open the file or copy images or text within thefile. That's a security feature I need. There are too many people onthe web that will steal your work and claim it's their own.
