Howard:

At the risk of unnecessarily prolonging this thread, I'll just say that this 
is one of many things that absolutely drives me crazy about Windows 
operating systems.  Specifically, why does everything have to be so 
complicated, and why do fundamentally important functions and/or processes 
have to be hidden somewhere in obscure lists of options that you almost have 
to be a computer programmer to understand?

Things like this are causing me to want to switch to a MAC as soon as 
possible.

Right now, the only thing that is holding me back is that my University does 
everything in Windows, and I worry about significant compatibility issues 
between work and home.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:48 AM
Subject: Who knew?!!


>I have been reaming people out for years about sending me inaccessible PDF
> documents.
> I got an important one last night, that I couldn't open with anything on 
> my
> main computer, which is an XP machine.
> I sent it upstairs to my windows 7 laptop, and it opened right up.
> Well I completely removed and re-installed acrobat on the XP machine, and
> this time I got a dialog, after the accessibility settings dialog.
> It said that in windows XP, some documents will not display if acrobat is
> set to be in protected mode.
> Their instructions are not clear, or misleading at best.
> You go to the edit menu, preferences, advanced security, and turn off
> protected mode.
> The computer has to be restarted, and then the documents become visible in
> acrobat and windows xp.
> H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
> Adaptive Technology Instructor
>