t it works great! You just drag & drop!
PERFECT! Thanks.
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Jessica - Oct 26, 2012 11:15:46 am PDT #21345 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2012 7:15:53 am PDT #21346 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So I hear people saying that unless you use Windows 8 on a touchscreen device like this: [link] it's a bit of a bust. Is it possible that they're all just not configuring it right?
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2012 8:08:00 am PDT #21347 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Has anyone here downloaded Acrobat reader for OS X? Or do you just use Preview? It's being hinky for me recently, and I've had to force quit more than once, but I feel that I should be able to get along without it...
le nubian - Oct 27, 2012 8:11:20 am PDT #21348 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
preview is great.
if it has been hinky, you might have delete a wonky system file.
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2012 8:27:42 am PDT #21349 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Give me more deets--I do like its spread of file types, but it took me almost ten minutes to get a form open from a website this morning, and I had to close all the other open files, and download it to my disk and open it from the HD, instead of letting it open from the web browser.
That is *so* not 2012. That's not even 2008.
le nubian - Oct 27, 2012 8:47:50 am PDT #21350 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
after googling here is one rec:
Try closing Preview with option-command-q and try opening Preview again
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2012 9:27:52 am PDT #21351 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The bulk of my problem was that it wouldn't start in the first place.
Third time round it did, but was unresponsive, so I force quit, and then started it manually and opened the PDF off the hard drive.
Gris - Oct 27, 2012 9:59:50 am PDT #21352 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I've never had a problem like that with Preview. I've used Adobe on a Mac for forms ONLY, but that was several generations of Preview ago. I haven't needed to fill out a PDF form in a long while.
Gris - Oct 27, 2012 10:02:45 am PDT #21353 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Oh, and regarding Windows 8, what I've gathered (but I haven't done much reasearch) is that it is awesome for touch tablets (can't wait to try it on my Lenovo Tablet PC and hopefully someday an Asus Transformer Prime equivalent) but confusingly different from Windows 7 as a non-touch upgrade.
My takeaway so far is that it's not exactly bad, just different. It will take a while for people to get used to it. I have NOT (yet) gotten the impression that it's Vista levels of buggy or anything.
It may be an unnecessary upgrade for non-convergence devices.
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2012 10:13:57 am PDT #21354 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah--I'm still waiting to find out what's either wrong or limited with 7 that 8 will improve on while we're still in the middle period where you can get either on new hardware.
As for touchscreen devices--I do find myself reaching out and trying to move things on my laptop (thank dog I'm alone--I look really dumb doing it), but the ergonomics aren't that great--they'd be worse at work on the dual screen setup. The laptop half of that is out of reach, and if it were in reach, it's on my non dominant side--the right side is clear so I can write and manipulate things on the desk.
That will be an interesting transition--seeing if touch makes it onto laptops and desktops in the standard workplaces. Well, maybe not if and just when.