John and Deborah,

  I tsried alt+P but got nothing; so I tried control+P and got the list of 
printers.

  Arrowing down to KESI Virtual Printer and pressing Enter, I found Kurzweil 
1000 recognizing the file I had open, which was already text.  So I gather 
one must first tell K1000 to open the "empty" file.pdf.

  Nelson
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John McCann" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Adobe empty document message


> Hi Deborah:
>
> Hmmm, you've just sold your house, and I've just acquired one; a condo
> actually, but that's "a whole nuther story", as they say.
>
> Anyway, to amplify on Catherine's comments, you can address this problem
> with Kurzweil, assuming you have it.  Press "alt P", then arrow down until
> you hear "kesi virtual printer".
>
> Take care!
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Catherine Getchell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 1:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Adobe empty document message
>
>
> Hi Deborah and the list,
> Deborah, if you have OpenBook, I think V. 6 or higher, you're in luck.
> Kurzweil may do something similar -- I don't know.  But in Adobe, if you 
> get
> that message, you can hit control P for print, and look at the choices you
> have for printers to send it to.  You'll likely see whatever printer you
> have hooked up to your system.  But if you have OpenBook installed, you
> should also see something called "freedom import printer."  Hit enter on
> that, and OpenBook should automatically launch and apply OCR to the
> document, which is most likely an image.  You'll then be able to read the
> document from within OpenBook.
>
> Some documents do better than others with this.  Documents in weird 
> tabular
> formats don't work so great, but straight text usually works pretty well.
> I
> f all else fails, write the person/people who sent you this stuff, tell 
> them
> it's inaccessible, and ask if they can send it to you as a Word or txt 
> file
> instead.  Hope this helps.
> Catherine
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Deborah Kendrick" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:51 PM
> Subject: [VICUG-L] Adobe empty document message
>
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I don't know much about PDF documents, but have been able to read several
>> of
>> them in the past when necessary.  I'm have just sold my house, and have
>> had
>> a number of important documents emailed to me that are PDF.  On two
>> different computers now, I get the message "empty documen" after the
>> initial
>> messages telling me the document is being processed.
>> The first few were from my realtor, and I thought that the problem was
>> that
>> she had scanned print documents.  However, now I have one from the
>> mortgage
>> banker, and I'm sure that he would have created the document online.  And
>> yet, I just get the message "empty document" and am unable to see it.
>> I'm pretty desperate and will be exceedingly grateful for any 
>> suggestions!
>> Deborah
>>
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