Showing posts with label PDF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PDF. Show all posts

Saturday, August 04, 2012

GhostScript error using FreePDF with network share

Some workstations in a Windows Domain (checked with SBS 2003 latest SP and Windows Server 2008 R2 latest SP) have problem saving PDF documents from FreePDF printer.

One of the reason: network share as destination folder – the document is created but copy to the target folder fails generating GhostScript error message.

Workaround: save result PDF document to a local folder and the copy to network share destination.

Enjoy!

UPD: same behavior was seen using CutePDF or Bullzip PDF

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Problem: cannot open PDF attachments using Outlook 2007 / 2010

Using Outlook 2007 or 2010 you may encounter strange problem:  PDF mail attachment won’t be opened with Acrobat Reader X (we monitored the problem with Outlook 2007 and 2010 using Acrobat Reader X 10.1.1).

While the attachment can be previewed in Outlook mail reader pane:
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a double click on the same attachment in the same mail brings the Acrobat Reader X Window with error dialog box above saying: “There was an error opening this document. Access denied.”

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The side effect is: if at least one Acrobat Reader X instance (program window on desktop) is already running, the attachment will be opened properly. Only if there’s no Acrobat Reader X window opened before you try to open a PDF mail attachment from Outlook – the error message appears.

The solution is:

  • open Acrobat Reader X
  • navigate menu Edit->Preferences:
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  • uncheck “Enable protected mode at startup”:
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  • confirm appearing dialog with “Yes”:
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  • close Preferences Dialog with “OK”
  • close Acrobat Reader X
  • retry to open PDF mail attachment
  • …enjoy!