Subscription starts too early.

I had a 3 month Unlimited World that was about to be renewed today. I wanted to change to 1 month, so I canceled my 3 month yesterday, as payment it made 3 days before it would expire on May 21.
I saw that you offer a 1 month free trial and that I could get it as well. I signed up for it and while I filled out the form I was told my free trial would start on May 21 as i still have 3 days of the 3 months Unlimited World left. Which is good and makes sense, after all I paid for it.
Then I got a confirmation email that said my free trial already starts on May 18. So I was wondering why not May 21?
It also says that my next payment is due on June 18. Does this mean my free trial goes until June 21 because payment is always due 3 days before a subscription expires?
I would be grateful for any info on where my 3 days went.
Thanks

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Systemd: some services starting too early and then failing

Hello everyone,
I freshly installed Arch on this new laptop (Asus Zenbook Prime UX32VD) and from the start, I wanted to have a pure systemd setup. I'm using services only and I've uninstalled initscripts and so far it's working relatively well.
However, some services seem to start too early by default and the workarounds are unsatisfactory.
Problem 1: asus-screen-brightness and asus-kbd-backlight
On this lap top, the stock screen brightness buttons do not work (yet). A script and a service file (which are both available via the asus-screen-brightness AUR package) have to be used to allow users to change the brightness via the script. The problem is, with that service enabled, it only succeeds sometimes. About have of the time booting the laptop it fails, most likely because the necessary nodes in /sys/ do not exist yet. Restarting the service manually after booting does the trick:
[root@tachychineta shapeshifter]# sc status asus-screen-brightness
asus-screen-brightness.service - Allow user access to screen brightness
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/asus-screen-brightness.service; enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:23:44 +0200; 1min 1s ago
Process: 320 ExecStart=/usr/bin/asus-screen-brightness allowusers (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/asus-screen-brightness.service
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta systemd[1]: Starting Allow user access to screen brightness...
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta sudo[349]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/chmod g+w /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta sudo[349]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta asus-screen-brightness[320]: cat: /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/max_brightness: No such file or directory
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta asus-screen-brightness[320]: /usr/bin/asus-screen-brightness: line 8: /10: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "/10")
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta asus-screen-brightness[320]: /usr/bin/asus-screen-brightness: line 10: 2*: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "*")
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta asus-screen-brightness[320]: cat: /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness: No such file or directory
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta asus-screen-brightness[320]: chgrp: cannot access ‘/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness’: No such file or directory
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta asus-screen-brightness[320]: chmod: cannot access ‘/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness’: No such file or directory
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta systemd[1]: Started Allow user access to screen brightness.
[root@tachychineta shapeshifter]# sc restart asus-screen-brightness
[root@tachychineta shapeshifter]# sc status asus-screen-brightness
asus-screen-brightness.service - Allow user access to screen brightness
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/asus-screen-brightness.service; enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:25:28 +0200; 2s ago
Process: 2547 ExecStop=/usr/bin/asus-screen-brightness disallowusers (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2579 ExecStart=/usr/bin/asus-screen-brightness allowusers (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/asus-screen-brightness.service
Oct 12 11:25:28 tachychineta systemd[1]: Starting Allow user access to screen brightness...
Oct 12 11:25:28 tachychineta sudo[2593]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/chgrp users /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
Oct 12 11:25:28 tachychineta sudo[2593]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Oct 12 11:25:28 tachychineta sudo[2597]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/chmod g+w /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
Oct 12 11:25:28 tachychineta sudo[2597]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Oct 12 11:25:28 tachychineta systemd[1]: Started Allow user access to screen brightness.
Exactly the same problem occurs with asus-kbd-backlight.service which is needed to allow users to control the keyboard backlight. It also fails because of missing /sys/ entries if started too early.
Problem 2: automatic login & X11
I use the method described on the wiki to autologin into TTY1 with my user and my .bash_profile contains
[[ $(fgconsole) = 1 ]] && startx
and my .xserverrc is configured as explained in this fantastically useful article by falconindy.
This way, X starts automatically and my session is properly authenticated for things like udiskie. I'm not using [testing] but instead rebuilt polkit with --enable-systemd and it's working just fine. The problem is, just like in problem 1, Xorg fails to start every now and then, failing with
(EE) No devices detected.
I don't have a full log because it hasn't happened in a while, but I'm very certain it's because the chipset isn't ready, yet.
Solutions?
I added "i915" to /etc/modules-load.d/static.conf hoping that would cover both the Xorg and backlight problems but it doesn't help. I then tried adding i915 to my MODULES in mkinitcpio.conf and rebuilding the initramfs and at least it looked like that way the problems went away but it added about 4 seconds to the time spent by the "kernel" during boot which is quite unacceptable. (Plots with and without i915 in MODULES).
I read the systemd.unit and systemd.service man pages but I can't find a way to speficy required kernel modules for a service file. I'm not sure if specifying the modules in /etc/modules-load.d shouldn't be enough (because apparently it's supposed to load for sysinit.target, which is early) but apparently it isn't.
Any ideas how I can get these services to work properly without sacrificing too much boot time?
Thank you
Last edited by Shapeshifter (2012-10-12 10:20:09)

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Recording starting too early and also ending too e...

Another problem.....
When recording programmes I am frequently finding that the recording is starting way too early...5-10 minutes....and often ends too early (very annoying as one misses the end of a particular programme).
Any help, gratefully received!
Thanks

Recording should start 2 minutes before the scheduled start time and end 5 minutes after the scheduled stop time (by default - you can increase this).
The box won't automatically cope with programmes which start late. Are the programmes you're having a problem with starting on time?
Is the time displayed on the box correct?

Sounds starting too early

Hello, for my class we have to remake a children's book.
Everything is working fine for mine until scene 4. Then the sound
effects start going off before they are supposed too. Any ideas?
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With all that motion going on it's no wonder. Set all of your
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Next payment for subscription is too early!!!

Hello! I have a question about the next payment date for the subscription. I purchased a subscription on July 25. and received an email with the record of payment and the date when the next payment will be taken, it says July 30. the same data is in the notification sent to my Skype app. I was surprised! I also checked my account on the Skype.com and there it says next payment on August 22, which makes sense, in a month after first payment. So, please, answer which info is true??? and why does it say such a soon next payment? it's a mistaken info? Thank you!

Actually both dates are correct, but for different subscriptions.
You have Unlimited US & Canada with recurring payment on the 30th of July.
Then you also have Ukraine 400 min and next payment for it will be on the 22nd of August.
You can check your order history from: https://secure.skype.com/account/purchase/history/orders
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Andre
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Folder action kicks in too early

I have a little applescript that is to add all files that are added to a specific folder to an iTunes playlist.
I added the script as a folder action to the folder.
It seems to work fine with single files.
However, when I copy several files (which takes a few seconds), then the script gets started too early, i.e., when only half of the files have been copied over. Consequently, only some of the files get added to the playlist.
In addition, when I copy a large number of files, it doesn't seem to work at all.
Any ideas what's wrong? or what I can do?
(Is this a bug in Mac OS? I read about an issue in 10.5 where folder actions got started before a single files was finished copying, but I haven't seen of any hints about my problem.)
Any kind of help will be highly appreciated.
Best regards,
Gabriel.
PS:
Here is my script, for completeness
Automatically add the files that are dropped on this applescript to
playlist named below.
To adapt it for a different playlist, just change the name below and save as application.
In addition, you can add this script as a folder action
Author: Gabriel Zachmann, Feb 2010
property playListName : "Hoerspiele"
on open theseFiles
addTheFiles(theseFiles)
end open
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
addTheFiles(added_items)
end adding folder items to
to addTheFiles(theFiles)
tell application id "com.apple.iTunes"
activate
set playL to some playlist whose name is playListName
set playID to persistent ID of playL
--display dialog ("persistent ID = " & playID) buttons {"OK"} default button 1
reveal (some playlist whose persistent ID is playID)
repeat with aFile in theFiles
try
add aFile to some playlist whose persistent ID is playID
end try
-- set new date, so we know later when we copied the files
set the file_path to the quoted form of the POSIX path of aFile
do shell script ("/bin/touch " & file_path)
end repeat
end tell
end addTheFiles
Message was edited by: GabrielZ

folder actions have always been buggy and this has always been an issue when folder actions have to process many files at the same time. it's supposed to have gotten better in snow leopard but it's still very far from being reliable. you can try the following trick to slow down your folder action and make it wait to process individual items before they are all copied. that might (or might not ) help
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8277780#8277780

The automatic filter starts/ends earlier than it should.

I am working on a song using GarageBand'11 which i am quite familiar with and the signature of the song is 4/4. I have made quite a few songs before and have never had this problem... so i don't have a clue why this has happened. The track is using faded in and out white noise and then i have added an automatic filter to is as a kind of build up effect. The automatic filter is set to 4 bars and there are two tracks one that the filter is set to up (where is builds up) and one where it is set to down (where it breaks down). The problem is that when it gets to about 3.3 bars the filter stops too early when it should be an extra 0.1 bar long? So when i start the song 0.1 bar foward it works fine so the automatic filter starts too early. it's nothing to do with the signature because that is set at 4/4 which should mean it works. I have tried making a new track, re-adding the automatic filter and countless other adjustments and it's just not getting anywhere...
soo if anyone has any ideas of whats gone wrong here and how i can sort it out, i will be very greatful
If you still don't understand what the problem is, then i can send you a copy of the song and you can try and work it out from that.
GingerBiskit - Bad artist name. I know :L

It sounds like a crossfade problem. Check (when you have your ipod connected to the computer) the ipod settings under your preferences in iTunes.

Is it too early to start with JavaFX Mobile Development ?

There are no developer compnents except "TextBox"
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it doesn't even support Swing
What developer wants "Data Entry Form" which user will submit data to Server Or Store data To Database & then Process the Data & return Result to user, Etc & much more req
why javaFx is more Media Oriented( Audio, Video,Graphics,Animation,Games,etc)
What benifits it provides to Developer.I am basically targetting JavaFX Mobile
Please Reply to help me understand What Can I do In JavaFx mobile domain
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Hello, and Welcome to the HP Support Community! As with any Internet Forum, you have to realize that you are visiting a "hospital" - most folks here are the minority who have had problems. If one was to judge the human race by visiting a hospital, you might run outside screaming "WE'RE ALL DOOMED! EVERYONE HERE IS SICK!!!" Those who have no issues at all do not come here and check in. The few that actually do come by and offer compliments are far and few between, and they are greatly appreciated by us! I've asked HP about Win10. They will not provide an answer until the final release is out. It could run with zero issues, or not! The Sprout is an amazing device - a large touchscreen All In One computer with some cool options not many other PC's could ever do! Is it too early? I've had one for almost a year (a loaner from HP for my participation here). Glitches? A few that were easily remedied. The decision is up to you. If worried about Win10, then wait a month or two. The device runs fine on Win 8.1. Why change to Win10? WyreNut

Windows TCP Socket Buffer Hitting Plateau Too Early

Note: This is a repost of a ServerFault Question edited over the course of a few days, originally here: http://serverfault.com/questions/608060/windows-tcp-window-scaling-hitting-plateau-too-early
Scenario: We have a number of Windows clients regularly uploading large files (FTP/SVN/HTTP PUT/SCP) to Linux servers that are ~100-160ms away. We have 1Gbit/s synchronous bandwidth at the office and the servers are either AWS instances or physically hosted
in US DCs.
The initial report was that uploads to a new server instance were much slower than they could be. This bore out in testing and from multiple locations; clients were seeing stable 2-5Mbit/s to the host from their Windows systems.
I broke out iperf
-s on a an AWS instance and then from a Windows client in the office:
iperf
-c 1.2.3.4
[ 5] local 10.169.40.14 port 5001 connected with 1.2.3.4 port 55185
[ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 6.55 MBytes 5.48 Mbits/sec
iperf
-w1M -c 1.2.3.4
[ 4] local 10.169.40.14 port 5001 connected with 1.2.3.4 port 55239
[ 4] 0.0-18.3 sec 196 MBytes 89.6 Mbits/sec
The latter figure can vary significantly on subsequent tests, (Vagaries of AWS) but is usually between 70 and 130Mbit/s which is more than enough for our needs. Wiresharking the session, I can see:
iperf
-c Windows SYN - Window 64kb, Scale 1 - Linux SYN, ACK: Window 14kb, Scale: 9 (*512)
iperf
-c -w1M Windows SYN - Windows 64kb, Scale 1 - Linux SYN, ACK: Window 14kb, Scale: 9
Clearly the link can sustain this high throughput, but I have to explicity set the window size to make any use of it, which most real world applications won't let me do. The TCP handshakes use the same starting points in each case, but the forced one scales
Conversely, from a Linux client on the same network a straight, iperf
-c (using the system default 85kb) gives me:
[ 5] local 10.169.40.14 port 5001 connected with 1.2.3.4 port 33263
[ 5] 0.0-10.8 sec 142 MBytes 110 Mbits/sec
Without any forcing, it scales as expected. This can't be something in the intervening hops or our local switches/routers and seems to affect Windows 7 and 8 clients alike. I've read lots of guides on auto-tuning, but these are typically about disabling scaling
altogether to work around bad terrible home networking kit.
Can anyone tell me what's happening here and give me a way of fixing it? (Preferably something I can stick in to the registry via GPO.)
Notes
The AWS Linux instance in question has the following kernel settings applied in sysctl.conf:
net.core.rmem_max = 16777216
net.core.wmem_max = 16777216
net.core.rmem_default = 1048576
net.core.wmem_default = 1048576
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 1048576 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 1048576 16777216
I've used dd
if=/dev/zero | nc redirecting to /dev/null at
the server end to rule out iperfand
remove any other possible bottlenecks, but the results are much the same. Tests with ncftp(Cygwin,
Native Windows, Linux) scale in much the same way as the above iperf tests on their respective platforms.
First fix attempts.
Enabling CTCP - This makes no difference; window scaling is identical. (If I understand this correctly, this setting increases the rate at which the congestion window is enlarged rather than the maximum size it can reach)
Enabling TCP timestamps. - No change here either.
Nagle's algorithm - That makes sense and at least it means I can probably ignore that particular blips in the graph as any indication of the problem.
pcap files: Zip file available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/104qdysmk01lnf6/iperf-pcaps-10s-Win%2BLinux-2014-06-30.zip (Anonymised
with bittwiste, extracts to ~150MB as there's one from each OS client for comparison)
Second fix attempts.
I've enabled ctcp and disabled chimney offloading: TCP Global Parameters
Receive-Side Scaling State : enabled
Chimney Offload State : disabled
NetDMA State : enabled
Direct Cache Acess (DCA) : disabled
Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level : normal
Add-On Congestion Control Provider : ctcp
ECN Capability : disabled
RFC 1323 Timestamps : enabled
Initial RTO : 3000
Non Sack Rtt Resiliency : disabled
But sadly, no change in the throughput.
I do have a cause/effect question here, though: The graphs are of the RWIN value set in the server's ACKs to the client. With Windows clients, am I right in thinking that Linux isn't scaling this value beyond that low point because the client's limited CWIN
prevents even that buffer from being filled? Could there be some other reason that Linux is artificially limiting the RWIN?
Note: I've tried turning on ECN for the hell of it; but no change, there.
Third fix attempts.
No change following disabling heuristics and RWIN autotuning. Have updated the Intel network drivers to the latest (12.10.28.0) with software that exposes functioanlity tweaks viadevice manager tabs. The card is an 82579V Chipset on-board NIC - (I'm going to
do some more testing from clients with realtek or other vendors)
Focusing on the NIC for a moment, I've tried the following (Mostly just ruling out unlikely culprits):
Increase receive buffers to 2k from 256 and transmit buffers to 2k from 512 (Both now at maximum) - No change
Disabled all IP/TCP/UDP checksum offloading. - No change.
Disabled Large Send Offload - Nada.
Turned off IPv6, QoS scheduling - Nowt.
Further investigation
Trying to eliminate the Linux server side, I started up a Server 2012R2 instance and repeated the tests using iperf (cygwin
binary) and NTttcp.
With iperf,
I had to explicitly specify -w1m on both sides
before the connection would scale beyond ~5Mbit/s. (Incidentally, I could be checked and the BDP of ~5Mbits at 91ms latency is almost precisely 64kb. Spot the limit...)
The ntttcp binaries showed now such limitation. Using ntttcpr
-m 1,0,1.2.3.5 on the server and ntttcp
-s -m 1,0,1.2.3.5 -t 10 on the client, I can see much better throughput:
Copyright Version 5.28
Network activity progressing...
Thread Time(s) Throughput(KB/s) Avg B / Compl
====== ======= ================ =============
0 9.990 8155.355 65536.000
##### Totals: #####
Bytes(MEG) realtime(s) Avg Frame Size Throughput(MB/s)
================ =========== ============== ================
79.562500 10.001 1442.556 7.955
Throughput(Buffers/s) Cycles/Byte Buffers
===================== =========== =============
127.287 308.256 1273.000
DPCs(count/s) Pkts(num/DPC) Intr(count/s) Pkts(num/intr)
============= ============= =============== ==============
1868.713 0.785 9336.366 0.157
Packets Sent Packets Received Retransmits Errors Avg. CPU %
============ ================ =========== ====== ==========
57833 14664 0 0 9.476
8MB/s puts it up at the levels I was getting with explicitly large windows in iperf.
Oddly, though, 80MB in 1273 buffers = a 64kB buffer again. A further wireshark shows a good, variable RWIN coming back from the server (Scale factor 256) that the client seems to fulfil; so perhaps ntttcp is misreporting the send window.
Further PCAP files have been provided, here:https://www.dropbox.com/s/dtlvy1vi46x75it/iperf%2Bntttcp%2Bftp-pcaps-2014-07-03.zip
Two more iperfs,
both from Windows to the same Linux server as before (1.2.3.4): One with a 128k Socket size and default 64k window (restricts to ~5Mbit/s again) and one with a 1MB send window and default 8kb socket size. (scales higher)
One ntttcp trace
from the same Windows client to a Server 2012R2 EC2 instance (1.2.3.5). here, the throughput scales well. Note: NTttcp does something odd on port 6001 before it opens the test connection. Not sure what's happening there.
One FTP data trace, uploading 20MB of /dev/urandom to
a near identical linux host (1.2.3.6) using Cygwin ncftp.
Again the limit is there. The pattern is much the same using Windows Filezilla.
Changing the iperf buffer
length does make the expected difference to the time sequence graph (much more vertical sections), but the actual throughput is unchanged.
So we have a final question through all of this: Where is this limitation creeping in? If we simply have user-space software not written to take advantage of Long Fat Networks, can anything be done in the OS to improve the situation?

Hi,
Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet forums.
I will try to involve someone familiar with this topic to further look at this issue. There might be some time delay. Appreciate your patience.
Thank you for your understanding and support.
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Songs ending too early

It seems that since the last update to I Tunes some songs are ending too early (30 to 1:30 too ealry). The get info button does not indicate the songs should end early. When i download the song again, the problem stops.

There could be a number of causes. If the iPod only plays a very short part of the file <10 secs this is usually down to problems with the structure of the file that iTunes can cope with but that causes the iPod to bail out. Re-encoding in iTunes will normally help, ie. re-rip or convert from MP3 to AAC or vice versa. Since all transcoding is lossy you should retain your original file as a backup in the hope that future firmware upgrades will fix this issue. iTunes also has a feature to allow you to exclude parts of a song from being played. Use *Get info* on a song in question and look at the Options tab. There are options here to set a start & stop time and to remember the playback position. Setting any of these will affect what gets played each time the track is selected. Finally, if you're playing songs in random order that are part of continous play albums the exact point at which the track stops may not be quite where you expect it to be.
tt2

Preflight droplet process returns too early – before it's done

I'm calling an Acrobat preflight DROPLET from program that I'm writing, and I need to know when the files are ready, that is when the preflight fixups are done.
I need to know this in order to go on with some other file system stuff in my program, that needs to be done after the preflight fixups.
I guess the droplet just tells Acrobat what to do, and then exits. The Droplet process stays up for a while but exits before the work is done.
There is an question from 2009 asking the exact same thing, but no answer. Preflight droplet returns too early
Since it's in a locked section of the forum I venture to ask the same question now, six years later.
Checking the modified dates of all files does not seem to work since a preflight obviously does not alter files that are not in need of being altered.
I'm on windows, and I don't know whether this is a platform dependent problem.
What should I do?
Thanks,
Andreas

This is not a good way to do it. But this is the way I do it now...
It seems to work but there is no guarantee that it will work in the future, or even on all machines.
private static int WaitForAcrobatReady() {
// Get the current Acrobat instance.
var app = new Acrobat.AcroApp();
// While a preflight (droplet) is running, app.GetNumAVDocs() will
// not return ANYTHING, it will just hang.
return app.GetNumAVDocs();
To sum up the efforts of the last weeks: Acrobat doesn't seem to be made for inclusion in other automation jobs. This is just another thing that doesn't work.
(I had to use the C# library PDFSharp to do other things that Acrobat can do really well only that it's not possible to set those properties, or start that kind of actions, from "outside".)

Preflight droplet returns too early

I want to convert a color PDF into grayscale. So I created a new preflight profile where nothing happens except color fixup:
Advanced > Print Production > Preflight
PDF Fixups > Convert to Grayscale
I saved the profile and created a Droplet named grey.exe.
When I call grey.exe smallSize_1MB.pdf everything is fine. But when I have to convert a PDF having big filesize like grey.exe bigSize_160MB.pdf the Droplet .exe process returns before the preflight is done.
Problems: A script (e.g. a batch file) continues without waiting for the Droplet to finish. So the script cannot make use the Droplet's result, e.g. a preflight report or the converted PDF file.
Why does the Droplet's .exe process return too early? Everybody can test this with the help of the attached Droplet and the following batch scripts:
smallSize.bat (use something small, e.g. 1 MB or smaller):
copy /Y smallSize.pdf tmp.pdf
grey.exe tmp.pdf
echo "return"
pause
bigSize.bat (use something really big, e.g. 160 MB or bigger):
copy /Y bigSize.pdf tmp.pdf
grey.exe tmp.pdf
echo "return"
pause
Ideas, anyone?
Message was edited by: Droptix I am using Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional.
Message was edited by: Droptix As an alternative I can imagine to re-produce the Droplet's function by Interapplication communication (IAC) through OLE, see http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/interapplication.html -> if anyone can tell me how to do a grayscale conversion via IAC/OLE... would be great! I know the IAC/OLE basics, can open, save and edit PDFs but don't know how to convert. It would also be possible to use: Advanced/Print Production/Convert Colors > set all Document Colors to convert > set Blending profile for instance to Gray Gamma 1.8 > set conversion options to don't embed profile.

This is not a good way to do it. But this is the way I do it now...
It seems to work but there is no guarantee that it will work in the future, or even on all machines.
private static int WaitForAcrobatReady() {
// Get the current Acrobat instance.
var app = new Acrobat.AcroApp();
// While a preflight (droplet) is running, app.GetNumAVDocs() will
// not return ANYTHING, it will just hang.
return app.GetNumAVDocs();
To sum up the efforts of the last weeks: Acrobat doesn't seem to be made for inclusion in other automation jobs. This is just another thing that doesn't work.
(I had to use the C# library PDFSharp to do other things that Acrobat can do really well only that it's not possible to set those properties, or start that kind of actions, from "outside".)

TS4.2: VI too early to convert

Hi,
I'm getting the error -18002 VI too early to convert when I execute a TestStand 4.2 sequence file with the TestStand Base Deployment Engine. I created the Deployment installer with the deployment tool in TS4.2 and installed it on a second system. I added all needed LV runtimes and drivers incl. TestStand Deployment Engine. All installed softwares shown in the MAX are equal to the Developing system. But on the target system I always get the mentioned error. So I searched the NI Forum and found a similar Problem, but no real solution for that. I think, that the TestStand Base Deployment Engine on the target system chooses the wrong LV runtime engine, something higher then 8.2.1 (this is the version of the VI's). When I change the Labview adapter the the developing system to 8.6.1, I get the same error. But with 8.2.1, everything works fine.
How can I change the default LabView Runtime Version for the TestStand Base Deployment Engine?
Thnaks in Advanced
M. Tiedje
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mtimti wrote:
[...]I need a something like the LabView Adapter (like in TestStand developing system) in the TestStand Base Deployment System.[...]
The TestStand deployment has also settings for Adapters. It is possible, that your UI does not supply you with the option to change those settings. You can always install the predefined UIs delievered with TestStand and run it on the deployment system. You can then change the settings for the LV Adapter as needed.
mtimti wrote:
[...]All my settings and software version are identical on both systems.[...]
If this is true, then the LV Adapter settings should already be correct. Therefore, there has to be another reason for this behavior. But please check the settings as described before.
mtimti wrote:
[...]The whole problem started when we decided to change the TS version form 3.5 to 4.2. everything was fine with 3.5 and I thought I only need to deploy everything again and that's it, bau then came the VI version error.[...]
Never heared something like this. I asume that not only TestStand was updated in the process. Is it possible, that you have been working with something older than LV 8.2 when using TS 3.5? If so, please masscompile all VIs using 8.2 before deploying them.
hope this helps,
Norbert
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I have a test system which has LabVIEW 8.0 and TestStand 3.5 running VIs and sequences developed on this system. I am trying to replace this with a deployment system and not having much success. I admit I'm pretty green with LV8 and TS3.5, but reasonably computer savvy.
I purchased the same DAQ boards used in the existing system and installed them in a new PC. The PCs are different types, the existing system is a HP Pavilion and the deployment system is a Dell. I didn't think hat would have much effect.
I created a deployment install image on the development system. I tried this a few months ago and was able to get a simple test deployment working. Now that I've got the actual DAQ hardware, I attempted to deploy the full test system. It installed OK on the deployment system, but when I run a sequence, I get a message that states:
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2. Possibly a different DAQmx version - I installed DAQmx from the CDs that came with the new hardware, not from the original CDs.
3. XP Pro instead of XP Std
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Unfortunately, a subcontractor created the original system, and I don't know if I have the original driver disks.
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