[Ansteorra] OP Troubles

[Eadric Anstapa]

For files above X  size, when you are reading the file in a web browser, 
Adobe Acrobat with try to download only part of the file to display just 
a page at a time.  As you step forward through the file it downloads a 
little bit more at a time as you move on.  Sometimes this causes display 
problems and ya never know what combinations of browsers, servers, and 
web caches might screw things up.

My experience has shown that this is the most frequent source of such 
problems.  Often the biggest culprit is some transparent web cache that 
some Internet service provider has in place. (they have such caches 
there so that in general people will get better/faster performance)

To get around this dont open the file in your browser.  Instead right 
click on the link and use the "Save As" option to save the file to your 
local hard drive.  Then open the file from your local hard drive.

Try this and see if it works for you.  If it does then most certainly 
the problem is with Adobe trying to retrieve only part of the file and 
some web server/cache just not being able to properly deliver that 
segment of the file as requested by that version of Adobe.

Regards,

-- 
HL Eadric Anstapa
DSEM CA
/eadric at scabrewer.com/ <mailto:eadric at scabrewer.com>



HL Chiara Franchesca wrote:

> Yep.
>
> It more than likely is Adobe. If you have a version that was 
> in-between the upgrades (i.e. beta copies) you will encounter various 
> problems. We actually thought it was a problem in the way we were 
> doing things on the server but after about two weeks of research and 
> changing settings it all boiled down to Adobe not playing nice with 
> its own versions and overwriting its own upgrades.
>
> You all may have to check to make sure you do not have a corruption in 
> your latest version of Adobe software, any of it, not just the reader. 
> Some softwares come with a free copy of an older version of the reader 
> that will over write your good copy with it. It may or may not corrupt 
> what you got.
>
> I will look at the directories all the same to make sure there is 
> nothing going on from our end but for the last two years this has been 
> a constant problem due to Adobe installs corrupting current versions 
> of the reader on personal PC's.
>
> Please accept our sincerest apologies either way,
> HL Chiara Francesca
> Kingdom WebMinister, Ansteorra
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hillary Greenslade" 
> <hillaryrg at yahoo.com>
> To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 9:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] OP Troubles
>
>
>> --- ansteorra-request at ansteorra.org wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 21:16:23 -0500
>> From: "April Gillilan" <agillilan at swbell.net>
>> Subject: [Ansteorra] OP Troubles
>> To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
>>
>>>
>>> I've been trying to access the online OP from the kingdom website 
>>> and it's
>>> just not working.  Is there an HTML version available, rather than 
>>> the PDF?
>>> The PDF takes forever to download and then all 141 pages are blank.
>>>
>>> Thanks,Gilyan
>>
>>
>> I have had similar problems with the Award Texts pdf file, and when I 
>> get some of it
>> downloaded the pages are blank - as is there is a timeout issue.  I 
>> am not able to get the whole
>> document to download.   I don't think it's my machine as I'm 
>> downloading at work, and we regularly
>> accept larger files.
>> Any ideas techno-guys?
>> Hillary
>>

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