Leopard killed pdf making

Can no longer print documents straight to pdf from the likes of Word etc. Big pain in the neck. I use Adobe Acrobat pro 7 btw., Help Obi Wan!!!

This is what worked for me and I too am using Acrobat 7 Pro:
Open Acrobat Pro. Under the the Help menu chose "Detect and Repair"
After I did that the Acrobat PPD reappeared in my Print menu when I was printing PostScript Files from InDesign and the Word method with that little 2 button menu bar.
On 30 Oct jlc1civic posted this fix on the Leopard forum, I need to give Jerry the credit.

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TS4185 Just downloaded FACETIME on my 4yr. olf Imac running Snow Leopard. When making a call to my friend's Imac all works correctly going both ways. When my wife calls me via Facetime from her Ipad, I cannot click on "accept"- not there?

Just downloaded FACETIME on my 4yr. olf Imac running Snow Leopard. When making a call to my friend's Imac all works correctly going both ways. When my wife calls me via Facetime from her Ipad, I cannot click on "accept"- not there? When called by the Imac (newest), the "accept" or "reject" radio button appears for me to click and connect. On my wife's Ipad the two radio buttons always appear when a call actiivates Facetime and comes on?
There is nothing I can find in "Preferences" in Facetime to turn that on or off. I suspect it has to do with having a more current operating system; that the "controls" are in the operating system? [I'm guessing] It's frustrating getting Facebook calls from several friends on Ipads! Any ideas...VFP

I suspect it has to do with not having a more current operating system
Exactly, what Apple is doing is leveraging new features only on newer OS X versions to force you to upgrade OS X to 10.7 or later.
What they don't tell you is 10.7 or later will NOT run your PowerPC based software, some of it you can't get Intel versions like for perfectly working printers, scanners and games etc. So it can be a very expensive OS X upgrade to 10.7 or later with third party software.
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
Also they don't tell you is the risk in bricking your machine if the update goes badly, so you have to have AppleCare in case that occurs so it's on them to fix it. Else your paying money to replace the logicboard or buying a new machine prematurely.
A four year old machine can't have AppleCare, it's only good for 3 years from date of purchase new.
Your machine came with a boot hard drive, it's usually got about 4-5 years of life on it, then it needs to be replaced.
Also they don't tell you the newer OS X version has more abilities and features that causes your machine to slow down in performance, especially on older machines.
Also they implement new, idotic and extremely fustrating new user interface features in a arbitrary "you take it or leave it" manner with little or no fall back method.
So upgrading OS X is a gamble on older machines that otherwise would likely work perfectly fine for the next 5 years if one didn't need to have to mess with it.
Since Snow Leopard has slightly over 25% OS X version market share, your still good for security updates etc for the next few years if you just want to stay where your at and be happy.
OS X 10.4/10.5 need to upgrade, 10.6.8 ok still
The Lions are, well, not so welcome due to Scott Forstall retard UI issues, OS X Mavericks 10.9 is likely going to fix things a bit better.
But basically what is occuring is Apple is trying to force a faster hardware upgrade cycle with the more expensive products by leveraging features on the smaller devices that expire sooner.
Apple is a hardware company that leverages whatever it can to get you to buy more hardware, it's why they are as rich as they are.

Help requested for fixing Midi-reliant Widgets that Leopard killed?

While using Tiger, I had a couple of wonderful keyboard widgets that relied on Midi plug-ins to produce their sound. Leopard killed them. I have normal sound (I think) in all of my applications and non-Midi reliant Widgets, but anything Midi is dead and so is Finale Print Music, which won't even start up. Any guidance from the musical side?

ejdelafe wrote:
While using Tiger, I had a couple of wonderful keyboard widgets that relied on Midi plug-ins to produce their sound. Leopard killed them. I have normal sound (I think) in all of my applications and non-Midi reliant Widgets, but anything Midi is dead and so is Finale Print Music, which won't even start up. Any guidance from the musical side?
I suggest you contact Finale and what other companies whose software you are using.
Leopard did not kill your widgets, they simply are not Leopard compatible and must be upgraded or newer ones downloaded. It's that simple.

LEOPARD KILLS DRIVES

Im updating a MacBook Pro 1.83 GHz from 10.4 to 10.5 for a friend.
It read CD's and DVD's before I updated to 10.5...
Then guess what, All blank DVD's and DVD's that have been burned by myself DO NOT WORK!!
It spits them out. CD's are fine just DVD's....
LEOPARD KILLS DRIVES - I've just witnessed it.
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857
HAEA
I have tried PRAM, SMC, a re-install of 10.5, the firmware update through terminal and giving it a good tap whilst the disc is inside.....A 10.5.2 upgrade does not work either.
USELESS. It's also pathetic that there are so many complaints yet nobody from Apple can hold there hand up and say there will/may be a forthcoming solution. Just people who have forked out a lot of money to get the silent treatment. Perhaps thats why they drives are done away with... Get a Macbook Air!!

Of course...AHT, - not thinking, I haven't run an AHT. But I had done all the usual Repairing permissions etc. The drive was zeroed and repaired before I installed Leopard, and then when the drive went cuckoo - I re-installed Leopard again.
It's been given back to my friend now.. He has everything updated and reinstalled and everything is working nicely for him apart from the drive. I'd also just done his iMac 20" - no problem.
I have leopard myself, no problems. But I have a later machine (see below).
Just seems funny theres a lot of coincidence in similar posts...
It's just very annoying that these issues arise and are not always addressed.

Snow Leopard prints pdf in other colors than the Illustrator CS3 design

2 days ago I installed Snow Leopard. Yesterday I tried to print an Adobe Illustrator CS3 document that I made into a PDF. My logo which is gradient aqua and yellow prints grey, black and red. It appears fine on the screen and prints fine as an AI document. I emailed the document to my husband as a PDF and he also just installed Snow Leopard. The email pdf shows the proper colors but it prints in the same weird grey, black, red for him as well. All our old documents from years back which have my logo print in this wrong color combo. I spoke to Apple today and I printed a random Safari photo doc ( a zedonk, zebra donkey, check her out)! saved as a PDF in the proper color combo. We installed a graphics update for Illustrator but no resolution. It appears the problem might be the pdf file sent through Snow Leopard can't read the colors. Help!

Try printing the PDF with Adobe Reader
<http://get.adobe.com/reader/?promoid=BUIGO>

Snow Leopard killed my vga displays!!

This is by far the most weird problem I have ever encountered after upgrading to a new OS.
I run a company where we have something like 15 different Macs. Mostly Intel, but different ages, Mac Pro, Macbook Pro, iMacs, Mac Mini etc.
A couple of days ago I wanted to upgrade one of the Mac Pros to Snow Leopard. It's an early 2008 3.1 with ATI hd 2600 graphics. I wanted to do a clean install, but instead of backing up everything from the system drive, I pulled it out and put in a new clean one. This way I could retrieve the data from the old drive when I need it through a USB docking station or something.
Installation went by fast and without any problems what so ever.
But first thing I noticed when the first bootup was completed was that the resolution of my monitors were suddenly completely wrong. I have two Samsung Syncmaster 2343nw monitors connected through vga, and they have always been detected and automatically been set to the correct resolution in the display preferences dialog by the old Leopard. I have around 9 of these monitors working as dual displays on Leopard machines, and a few working as extra external monitors for a couple of Macbook Pros running both Snow Leopard and Leopard. They are all connected via an dvi to vga converter and they always get detected correctly as "Syncmaster" in Display preferences.
But suddenly now, they just show up as "VGA Monitor" in Display preferences.
After fighting with this for a couple of hours trying all the suggested workarounds I could find, zapping PRAM deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist changing the cables and so on, I finaly gave up. Fortunately I didn't overwrite the old Leopard installation so of cause I could just swap the drives back and everything should be dandy after booting back into the old Leopard install.
But **** no! Now the resolution was equally messed up in Leopard! And none of the two monitors were detected as "Syncmaster" in display pref. Now they only show up as "VGA Monitor" as they did in Snow. ***?? How can an OS mess with a monitors plug 'n' play capabilities?
I then tried the obvious which was to try and reset the monitors, remove power from them, Zap the PRAM again. I even tried a different graphics card (that didn't work in this machine) but what ever I did, the monitors where no longer detectable by the OS.
Next step was to take some identical monitors from a different machine. And yes, they where detected by Leopard on the problem machine. Since I couldn't believe that Snow had actually ruined the other two monitors I booted back into Snow hooping that it would now detect these other identical monitors. But no, same problem. Back to Leopard, and once again now suddenly these couldn't be detected by Leopard either.
I have since tried these monitors on all the other Macs I have in the company, and only one machine with an nVidia card is able to detect them correctly as Syncmaster. But none the less also this machine isn't able to see the monitors native resolution thus making it impossible to select the right setting for the monitor.
So now I have 4 monitors that's virtually unusable after being in contact
I have read a lot about people who who suddenly can't use their secondary monitor after upgrading to Snow Leopard and that Apple is aware of this, and that 10.6.4 should address this problem when we finally get some new graphic drivers. But I haven't heard about anybody who's monitor lost it's plug 'n' play capabilities after being in contact with Snow Leopard.
But maybe someone here has had any similar experience? Maybe somebody else has had luck with upgrading a dual vga monitor system to Snow Leopard? I would love to get some ideas on what happened since these monitors doesn't really work anymore on any computer.
Thanks!

Hmm... I know that the screens native refresh rate is at 60 Hz and the resolution is 2048 x 1152. I'm unable to check it out now but I'm pretty sure I can't select 60Hz. They only have VGA connectors (the same as D-Sub I guess?) And the closest I can get to the right resolution is 1920x 1280 (or maybe it's 1200, not sure) which looks almost right, but then again not, and a whole lot more fuzzy than it used to be.
On some machines the displays are detected as "Display" and on others "VGA monitor" or "VGA display". It's supposed to detect as "Syncmaster". Nothing changes if I press "Detect". I've only tried on machines running 10.5.8, and one brand new iMac running 10.6.3 through a display port to vga converter.
But thanks for link to the toms article. I'll give it a read

Safari 4.0.3, Snow Leopard, and PDFs

For some reason I can no longer view .PDF files in Safari after installing Snow Leopard. It worked before, under Leopard. Acrobat 8 works. Reader 9 works. Preview works. But I can't view .PDFs in Safari, and if I attempt to save them so that I could use something which does work, I get an error message: "The document <name of document> could not be exported as <name of document>."
Is there a work-around?

Please read the first sentence. It does not suggest the first thing to do is erase and reinstall. If you read that sentence there's another suggestion you can try.
However, if you failed to repair your hard drive and permissions before installing and take care that your Leopard system was performing properly, then quit all third-party software that was running, removed incompatible items like contextual menu items, preference panes, input managers, etc. before installing Snow Leopard, then you risk having serious problems. In such a case a fresh install is the best solution.
My systems are running perfectly clean and trouble-free. Until you install Snow Leopard as a freshly installed system, you cannot claim there's a problem. The problem may well be with the system you upgraded.

Error message for pdf making overload

I spent a day or so trying to find why my large, complex doc with lots of raster links make AI CS3 go out to lunch. Then I realized that it simply could not handle the amount of data I had in the file. A simple error message like 'This doc contains is too large to process' would have been very helpful and saved me a lot of time. Now I know it, but I had about 20 force quits for Illustrator before I realized what was going on. This was the case both for the pdf compatible option and for making a pdf.

Even after launching Reader and accepting the EULA? Most strange.

Updated to Snow leopard and PDF files disappear

Here's what happened. After I updated to Snow Leopard, when I went to print a PDF from Quark or Illustrator, it looked liked it was printing but no file is produced? Nothing...nada. I assumed it had to do with my distiller or Acrobat. I went to the help section in Acrobate, clicked on HELP, then REPAIR ACROBAT INSTALLATION. Thought that sounded good. Now I can find my printers? States no printer selected? Using Acrobat 9.
Anyone have ideas how to fix this this? I'm a beginner for the most part. Thanks so much!
Kelli

The way you create PDF now in Snow leopard and Leopard you go to Print menu click on PDF hold until a pop up menu shows The choose "create AcrobatPDF".
As for printing its possible you need to either update your print Driver, Or Printer. I know I had to give up my much treasured HP DJ990cse Inkjet printer and get a new C310 Printer/Scanner combo.
It makes great photo and great documents but is more trouble to operate.
Message was edited by: Phillip Jones
Correct some misspellings.

My iPad is stuck in recovery mode. I already downloaded Snow Leopard and am making no progress. Help!

My iPad is stuck in recovery mode. It was suggested before that I upgrade my computer, so I downloaded Snow Leopard and have tried resetting it, but it still isn't working. What can I try next?

FORCE IPAD INTO RECOVERY MODE
1. Hold Sleep/Wake button down and slide to turn off iPad
2. Turn on computer and launch iTune (make sure you have the latest version of iTune)
3. Plug USB cable into computer's USB port
4. Hold Home button down and plug the other end of cable into docking port. Do not release button until you see picture of iTune and plug.
5. Release Home button.
ON COMPUTER
6. iTune has detected iPad in recovery mode. You must restore this iPad before it can be used with iTune.
7. Select "Restore iPad"...

Leopard killed my mini... HELP! :_(

After many years of faithful service, I decided to give my mini (intel solo) a well deserved upgrade. I got Leopard from the Apple Store, installed, upgraded to the latest version (10.5.4), played with it throughout the weekend, and then, as I sat to watch a movie... it just sized up!
Frozen. Nothing will work. Oh well, nothing I hadn't seen before. Forced restart should sort it out.. Nope, frozen on the grey Apple screen... Lets have a look at Disk Repair from the DVD... Starts OK, runs OK, no repairs needed on the disk. Hmmm. Repair permissions... Nothing wrong there either, all permissions OK.
Restart Mini... same grey screen...
OK, so let's re-install Leopard, I've got plenty disk space...
Anyhow, after almost 3 hours, I decided to go to bed. It should finish overnight, after all, it says it has only 4 minutes left, even if it has said it for the last 30 min... give it time...
This morning, six hours later... still had 4 minutes to go. Installer FROZEN!
Now I don't have enough space left to re-install (only 2GB left).
So here come the questions:
1/ How can I set the Mini to Disk-Mode in order to free more space and/or copy some of my files? (I had pretty much everything backed up before I did the upgrade, but I was silly enough to but a few films from the iTunes shop; these weren't backed up...)
2/ I have two 500GB Iomega external firewire disks, so I thought I should be able to install Leopard in one of these and then access the mini's HD... The installer didn't allow me to do so, and asked to partition one as GIU-something... anyhow, as the two are identical (one is permanently mirrored into the other) I decided to erase one to install this new partition... but I couldn't find the option to install this particular kind of partition...
3/ If my mini ever goes back to life... should I go back to Tiger, keep to 10.5.0, or risk fate and go back to 10.5.4?
THANKS!

To answer your last question first, there are many people running Leopard quite happily on all varieties of Mac mini (and indeed far older systems) so there's nothing wrong with installing it again, and no reason to be reticent to do so if you like the features Leopard offers. It is worth saying however that if you were happy with Tiger, and liked the feature set of MacOS 10.4, Leopard doesn't really offer much in the way of enhancements, yet does typically require more RAM to run comfortably, particularly if you run multiple applications at the same time. If your Core Solo has 512Mb RAM and you run a lot of applications at once, or a number of old non-native software, you'd be better either increasing RAM to 1Gb or maxing out to 2, or returning to Tiger.
My guess is that when you installed Leopard, you performed the standard 'upgrade' install, and if so, that may well be the root cause of the problems you've had. This update path has created problems for many users, often the result of issues pre-existing on the system and which were largely hidden.
To back up the files on your mini before reinstalling, you can put it into Firewire target disk mode by holding 'T' down while booting while it is connected with a firewire cable to another Mac. That will mount it on the other Mac as an external drive and allow you to move files on and off it as with any other type of external.
What you then need to do is to reboot the mini with the installer (whether your existing Tiger or new Leopard installer is up to you) and then from the 'custom' install types, select 'Erase and Install'. This will wipe the internal drive of the mini and install a fresh copy of MacOS. That will resolve any outstanding drive/data issues, and give you a system that once completed, will be as it was when it came out of the box, including requiring the initial setup once again. Once that setup is complete, you can then reinstall your software and move your data back from the backups.

Cannot force Safari to use Adobe Reader in Leopard for pdf

Vanguard.com only supports download of pdfs on a Mac if Safari is using Adobe Reader. (Yes, that's totally awesome.)
I can't seem to force Safari to do that; it will only use Safari's built-in pdf reader.
- In Adobe Reader 8.1.1's preferences, the option "Display PDF in browser using" is greyed out.
- In Adobe Reader, selecting Help -> Repair Adobe Reader Installation says there is nothing to repair.
- /Library/Internet Plug-ins and ~/Library/Internet Plug-ins do not contain AdobePDFViewer.plugin, nor can I find it anywhere on my machine.
- I've reinstalled Adobe Reader 8.1.1 a number of times already, to no avail.
Anyone have any ideas?
TMIA,
rb

Take a look at this topic : Adobe Reader 8.0 - Heads UP!
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1231333>
Tom

Flatten (Reduce Sixe of PDF + Making it Read Only) PDF files - Designed in Adobe Livecycle

We have created PDF forms using Adobe Livecycle Designer. The forms looks good after being designd and printed.
We wanted to Flattend the PDF file that was developed in Designer. We used a Process orchestration in Forms ES Process module to flat the files.
Some PDF file are getting flattend correctly as we see the Original document.
Some of the PDF gets Distorted as the fonts of some of the paragraghs and text on the PDF forms becomes biggers during thee flattening process and the Flattended PDF output is not as the Original form. Please suggest what is the solution or what is happening?
Thanks,
Siva.

Thats my definition too.
Then my guess is that the font that is being used is not available on the server and as such a substitute font is being used which is different enough from the original to mess things up.
Paul

Time Machine running on Leopard killed a partitioned external HD. Is there a fix?

I partitioned the 3 TB external hard drive into four partitions to use with Leopard's Time Machine. The partition I was using for Time Machine was 300 GB. Time Machine required 55 GB for the backup. When almost finished I received the following error:
Time Machine Error
Unable to complete backup. The backup volume may have been ejected or disconnected from your computer.
After receiving the error the drive is not recognized by the computer.
Please help.

Hi BDAqua,
Returned the drive & got a new one. It is working without partitioning.
Best Buy said that Leopard won't support a partitioned external hard drive, the answer is to upgrade to Snow Leopard at a cost of $19.99. This works for me.
Thanks for you help!

Help, leopard killed my mail!

I just installed 10.5 leopard on my Macbook. When I ran mail, I get the following warning in duplicate..and as I close the warning, mail crashes and I get a window asking if I want to relaunch it, which I do and then the same thing happens. Any suggestions?
Some actions taken while the account “https://mail.hostedexchange.dk/exchange/” was offline could not be completed online.
Mail has undone actions on some messages so that you can redo the actions while online. Mail has saved other messages in mailbox “Sent Items” in “On My Mac” so that you can complete the actions while online.
Additional information: The IMAP command “APPEND” (to Sent Items) failed with server error: Invalid mailbox name..

Okay, for anyone else who may be reading this post with the same problem, here's how I worked it out.
Thanks to one of the posts above I found this Apple Support article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857
Application Enhancer seems to have been the problem in my case. I used option A. I connected my desktop mini system to my powerbook via firewire, booted powerbook in target-disk mode by holding T. Removed the APE file and the powerbook rebooted right into the new Leopard installation.
But now I'm going to backup what I need and do a fresh install anyway, to avoid any other potential problems with old incompatible applications.

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