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Adobe or Leopard issue?

Hopefully this is the appropriate forum for this question.

I am having a problem printing pdf documents. I'm not sure where to start. A good example would be yesterday when I bought my new fishing licence online and the document that I received was a pdf. It went to downloads. I click on the document and it opens with Adobe Reader.app (Adobe Reader X 10.1.2). When I click on the printer icon I get nothing. I get the same thing when trying to print downloaded forms from bank and goverment for income tax.

The printer works fine when printing other documents such as emails

Something else I noticed, and I'm not sure if it is related, is that while traveling the word on Google Earth if I try to view photos that are posted within the image, the white field opens up where you would usually see the photo but it remains blank, no photo. Being graphic in nature I thought it might be Adobe related.

I didn't note if it started immediately after updating to this version of Adobe in January, but I'm suspicious of it.

What am I missing?

I'm ready for your questions and suggestions!

Posted on Apr 2, 2012 12:13 PM

24 replies

BDAqua

Level 10

239,351 points

Apr 5, 2012 1:15 AM in response to Fendertwin

Well, 3 B of RAM in 10.5.8 will be about like 1.5 GB of RAM in 10.5.8, and you should Validate the Disk before installing, you

ll also need more Free space on the Hard Drive. There's also fewer options to the user in every step up

Fendertwin Author

Level 1

6 points

Apr 5, 2012 7:33 AM in response to BDAqua

Hmm. Terminology. I am aware of Verifying the disk in Disk utility. Is this the same as Validating?

I recently had a hard drive failure, so the old 225Gb drive was replaced with a 1Tb drive. the old one wasn't full, so there is plenty of headroom, if that is what you are referring to.

I'm think you had a slip of the keypunch there with "Well, 3 B of RAM in 10.5.8 will be about like 1.5 GB of RAM in 10.5.8,". Did you mean that 3GB in Snow Leopard would be like 1.5GB in Leopard?

BDAqua

Level 10

239,351 points

Apr 5, 2012 11:17 AM in response to Fendertwin

I am aware of Verifying the disk in Disk utility. Is this the same as Validating?

Yes, & Repairing if so needed of course.

Did you mean that 3GB in Snow Leopard would be like 1.5GB in Leopard?

Yep.

One thing just crossed my mind after my last post... is this Mac Core 2 Duo, or just Core Duo/Core Solo?

If not 64 Bit capable the Java version may not be much/any different than the 10.5.8 version.

Oh yes, you have plenty of free space then.

Fendertwin Author

Level 1

6 points

Apr 5, 2012 9:36 PM in response to BDAqua

Core 2 Duo

Model Name: iMac

Model Identifier: iMac7,1

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 4 MB

Memory: 6 GB

Bus Speed: 800 MHz

Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03

SMC Version (system): 1.21f4

BDAqua

Level 10

239,351 points

Apr 5, 2012 10:01 PM in response to Fendertwin

OK, same as my iMac 7,1, you're good to go if the Disk needs no Repair & has lots of free space! 🙂

But what happened to theiMac 5,1 mentioned earlier???

Model Name: iMac

Model Identifier: iMac5,1

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 4 MB

Memory: 1 GB

Bus Speed: 667 MHz

Boot ROM Version: IM87042M5VUV

SMC Version (system): 1.9f4

Fendertwin Author

Level 1

6 points

Apr 6, 2012 7:37 AM in response to BDAqua

Crap... I knew I had put all of my info out in this format earlier, so I cut and pasted what I thought was MY info, but accidentally gave you YOUR info. (slaps forehead).

I DO have a 5,1 and THIS is my info:

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: iMac

Model Identifier: iMac5,1

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 4 MB

Memory: 1 GB

Bus Speed: 667 MHz

Boot ROM Version: IM51.0090.B09