I also thought about this as an option. I know we also have 6.0 installed here in the office - as that is the version I have.
I will make this as the first suggestion. Thanks, -K- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions General Account Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VFP/Acrobat-PDF : Causing Sys FREEZE Kurt Wendt wrote: > Hello folks, > > > > My boss is having problem on his machine. He has Adobe Acrobat/Distiller > version 5.0 installed on his machine. And, when in FoxPro, if he selects > the "Adobe PDF" option instead of selecting a printer, when printing a > report - it is causing things to freeze upon his machine. The FoxPro > application freezes, and then he can shut most other applications down - > but, even trying to ReStart his machine is problematic - and even trying > to bring up the Task Manager is also problematic. > > > > When he runs the FoxPro app - it's a compiled EXE he is running - which > was compiled in the 7.0 release. Additionally, he is running this > application on an older PC (maybe 2 or 3 years old - Pentium 4 - 2.6GHz, > 512 RAM) - and he is running Win2K w/SP4. The problem doesn't happen on > any of the other machines here - as they are all running WinXP. > > > > Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, as it's a really annoying > problem - and he occasionally forgets that he should NOT try doing the > PDF output - and then tends to do it by mistake. Also to note - when he > selects the "Adobe PDF" option from within another application like MS > Word (instead of selecting an actual printer) - this problem does NOT > occur! Would it help if he upgraded? Version 5.0 is very old. Or try something like PDFCreator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a1404254...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
