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From: isw on 17 Jun 2008 22:20 I just bought a wireless router, an "AirLink 101". The documentation came in the form of a PDF on an included CD. Dragged the PDF to my desktop (OS X 10.4.11), where it shows the standard "PDF" icon. Double-clicked. Preview came to the foreground, but the file never opened. Hmm. Tried "Open With"/Preview. Still nothing. Open With/Safari, and the document opens just fine. Double Hmm. Visited their web site and got a brand-new copy, which behaves exactly like the one that came on the CD. From Safari, did a "Print", chose PDF, and got a new document. Which behaves identically -- that is, it will not open in Preview, but will in Safari. What's up? Isaac
From: Nigel on 17 Jun 2008 22:34 in article isw-4A1675.19203017062008(a)newsgroups.comcast.net, isw at isw(a)witzend.com wrote on 18/06/08 12:20 PM: > I just bought a wireless router, an "AirLink 101". > > The documentation came in the form of a PDF on an included CD. Dragged > the PDF to my desktop (OS X 10.4.11), where it shows the standard "PDF" > icon. Double-clicked. Preview came to the foreground, but the file never > opened. Hmm. > > Tried "Open With"/Preview. Still nothing. > > Open With/Safari, and the document opens just fine. Double Hmm. > > Visited their web site and got a brand-new copy, which behaves exactly > like the one that came on the CD. > > From Safari, did a "Print", chose PDF, and got a new document. Which > behaves identically -- that is, it will not open in Preview, but will in > Safari. > > What's up? > > Isaac Do you have spaces turned on? Often applications "forget" to move to the new space. Or was spaces only 10.5? Nigel
From: David Empson on 18 Jun 2008 08:22 isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > I just bought a wireless router, an "AirLink 101". > > The documentation came in the form of a PDF on an included CD. Dragged > the PDF to my desktop (OS X 10.4.11), where it shows the standard "PDF" > icon. Double-clicked. Preview came to the foreground, but the file never > opened. Hmm. > > Tried "Open With"/Preview. Still nothing. > > Open With/Safari, and the document opens just fine. Double Hmm. If you have Adobe Reader installed, it might have taken over the PDF display in Safari (which it normally does by default, until you repeatedly hit it with a large stick until it stops doing that). Adobe Reader and Preview sometimes have different opinions about what is a valid PDF, particularly if you have a newer version of one than the other. There may be something about the PDF which Mac OS X 10.4's built-in PDF display engine (used by Preview and Safari) can't handle. Adobe Reader has its own PDF rendering engine, so it sometimes works when the Mac OS X standard one doesn't. > Visited their web site and got a brand-new copy, which behaves exactly > like the one that came on the CD. Do you have a link to the document on the web site, so interested onlookers can try it for themselves? I guess it is http://www.airlink101.com/downloads.php, but which model? Picking one at random (AR335W, which is an 802.11b/g wireless router)... The PDF displays fine for me in Preview on Mac OS X 10.5.3. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: isw on 18 Jun 2008 13:23 In article <1iiqxno.q7tnuv1a1tbkhN%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>, dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote: > isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > > > I just bought a wireless router, an "AirLink 101". > > > > The documentation came in the form of a PDF on an included CD. Dragged > > the PDF to my desktop (OS X 10.4.11), where it shows the standard "PDF" > > icon. Double-clicked. Preview came to the foreground, but the file never > > opened. Hmm. > > > > Tried "Open With"/Preview. Still nothing. > > > > Open With/Safari, and the document opens just fine. Double Hmm. > > If you have Adobe Reader installed, it might have taken over the PDF > display in Safari (which it normally does by default, until you > repeatedly hit it with a large stick until it stops doing that). It is not installed. > Adobe Reader and Preview sometimes have different opinions about what is > a valid PDF, particularly if you have a newer version of one than the > other. > > There may be something about the PDF which Mac OS X 10.4's built-in PDF > display engine (used by Preview and Safari) can't handle. Well, that makes the fact that it opens fine using Safari even more peculiar... > > Visited their web site and got a brand-new copy, which behaves exactly > > like the one that came on the CD. > > Do you have a link to the document on the web site, so interested > onlookers can try it for themselves? > > I guess it is http://www.airlink101.com/downloads.php, but which model? > > Picking one at random (AR335W, which is an 802.11b/g wireless router)... I tried that one; it won't open for me either. Mine's a 430. Here's the link to the manual: http://www.airlink101.com/download/ar430w.php You're running 10.5; it'd be interesting if someone running 10.4 (as I am) could give it a try... Isaac
From: AES on 18 Jun 2008 13:48
In article <isw-5817D1.10230618062008(a)newsgroups.comcast.net>, isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > Mine's a 430. Here's the link to the manual: > > http://www.airlink101.com/download/ar430w.php > You're talking about the User Manual that this page links to? Downloads fine for me and appears immediately using Safari 3.1.1 on MacBook running 10.4.11. Saved from Safari as PDF, it opens fine as a 41 page PDF document in Acrobat 7.1.0. (I don't keep Reader on my system because you have to choose between always opening PDFs in Reader or in Acrobat -- there's no way to tell some PDFs to open in one, some in the other -- and since I have Acrobat, I find it easier to always opening everything in it.) |