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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / January 2005I love my Macs, but 3 things annoy me
I love my Macs (TiBookG4 + iMacG5), but 3 tiny things annoy me: 1- Apple mail - while beautiful - eats away all free memory and does not release it/ does not quit [TiBook only] 2- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional when applying update patch becomes unusable (some silly comment about International Settings...) 3- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional again: usual procedure for my large powerpoint presentation is to make a pdf with 2 slides per page. On the office PC this reduces the file size typically from 20 MB to 1 MB. On both Macs, I end up with a 12 MB pdf. Help/ suggestions/ comments welcome > 1- Apple mail - while beautiful - eats away all free memory and does > not release it/ does not quit [TiBook only] FWIW, I can't stand Apple Mail either. There's a reason I use Mozilla Thunderbird for my mail instead. > 2- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional ... > 3- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional again: ... I've found that a lot of Adobe products have all kinds of problems. I have personal gripes with aspects of the Adobe Reader app and Photoshop Elements. Both on MacOS and on Windows. Unfortunately, "use another program" often isn't a possible option for getting around them. -- David > I love my Macs (TiBookG4 + iMacG5), but 3 tiny things annoy me: > > 1- Apple mail - while beautiful - eats away all free memory and does > not release it/ does not quit [TiBook only] Sounds odd, something wrong with your OS installation. Perform a disk check and repair of permissions. Mail is not perfect but you might try another email client. I have found that Netscape 7.2 mail is my next choice for Free email client also Mozilla. > 2- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional when applying update patch becomes > unusable (some silly comment about International Settings...) I have to say I have been dissapointed in Acrobat 6 on the Mac. Kinda half assed in my opinion. I think this is Adobe's fault more than Mac. Though I can also say creating PDFs on Windows has given me no small amount of grief. > 3- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional again: usual procedure for my large > powerpoint presentation is to make a pdf with 2 slides per page. On > the office PC this reduces the file size typically from 20 MB to 1 MB. > On both Macs, I end up with a 12 MB pdf. This has to be a setting somewhere. Are you using distiller to create the PDF or the "Save as PDF" button in the print dialog? If you are using distiller it has to the the distiller opions you are using. Change them from your print dialog. If it is the "Save as PDF" button you will get a PDF of that size because the default setting for Mac's built in PDF creation is set to leave the image resolution the same as the creating document. This can changed through the ColorSync Dialog panel. You can also create your own settings via the ColorSync utility. Smaller files and such. > Help/ suggestions/ comments welcome Essential there is no reason that both platforms cannot yield the same results. Usually a matter of settings. Hope this helps. Good luck Michael > I love my Macs (TiBookG4 + iMacG5), but 3 tiny things annoy me: > > 1- Apple mail - while beautiful - eats away all free memory and does not > release it/ does not quit [TiBook only] Odd. Which versions of Mail/OS X? Doesn't seem to do that on this TiBook [1.3.9 (v619)/10.3.7]. > 2- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional when applying update patch becomes > unusable (some silly comment about International Settings...) Talk to Adobe. > 3- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional again: usual procedure for my large > powerpoint presentation is to make a pdf with 2 slides per page. On the > office PC this reduces the file size typically from 20 MB to 1 MB. On > both Macs, I end up with a 12 MB pdf. Talk to Adobe. Actually, you might try poking around in AA6P's settings to see if there are some optimization options that are set wrong. > Help/ suggestions/ comments welcome >> 3- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional again: usual procedure for my large >> powerpoint presentation is to make a pdf with 2 slides per page. On the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Actually, you might try poking around in AA6P's settings to see if there > are some optimization options that are set wrong. Also, maybe he's embedding the fonts in the PDF? Fonts can get prety big. Dave Hinz > 1- Apple mail - while beautiful - eats away all free memory and does not > release it/ does not quit [TiBook only] try another mail application, there are many examples: Powermail, more professional, very mature, shareware GNUmail, very recent but already impressive > 2- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional when applying update patch becomes > unusable (some silly comment about International Settings...) what in acrobat do you need that is not in Apple's Preview application? (I mean, there *are* things Acrobat does that preview won't, but if it happens you are not concerned with them, Preview will just be 10 times faster -and doesn't crash. In this case just reassociate the pdf files to preview...) Hervé  SignatureFrédérique & Hervé Sainct, h.sainct@laposte.net [fr,es,en,it] Frédérique's initial is missing in front of the above address l'initiale de Frédérique manque devant l'adresse email ci-dessus > I love my Macs (TiBookG4 + iMacG5), but 3 tiny things annoy me: > > 1- Apple mail - while beautiful - eats away all free memory and does not > release it/ does not quit [TiBook only] That isn't typical. I dont know why Mail is doing that on your PowerBook. There are other Mail clients like Entourage and Thunderbird, but I find Apple Mail to be the nicest. I dont like all the bloat in Entourage, and dont care for the Thunderbird UI. The screenshots of the version of Apple Mail in Tiger look really great. The app is going to get a huge upgrade. > I love my Macs (TiBookG4 + iMacG5), but 3 tiny things annoy me: > > 1- Apple mail - while beautiful - eats away all free memory and does not > release it/ does not quit [TiBook only] I have not seen that. How are you determining this? If you are simply looking at system memory, keep in mind that UNIX does not release freed up memory until (a) someone needs it or (b) a periodic cleanup happens. If you look at system free memory, it will look like everything is using up RAM as you open more programs. > 2- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional when applying update patch becomes > unusable (some silly comment about International Settings...) Every program on the Mac can create PDF's. Do you have some specific reason for using Acrobat? Perhaps some other tool will do the job. -john- Signature====================================================================== John A. Weeks III 952-432-2708 john@johnweeks.com Newave Communications http://www.johnweeks.com ====================================================================== > I love my Macs (TiBookG4 + iMacG5), but 3 tiny things annoy me: > > 1- Apple mail - while beautiful - eats away all free memory and does not > release it/ does not quit [TiBook only] I agree. Apple mail is anemic, which is why I use Eudora Pro. Not a pretty face, but a lot of power, which is what I need in email. > 2- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional when applying update patch becomes > unusable (some silly comment about International Settings...) I've never seen that. > 3- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional again: usual procedure for my large > powerpoint presentation is to make a pdf with 2 slides per page. On the > office PC this reduces the file size typically from 20 MB to 1 MB. On > both Macs, I end up with a 12 MB pdf. Use the command File -> Reduce File Size That squeezes a lot of unused fonts and other stuff from the file. I often get a 90% file reduction. From your comment it sounds like the PC does this automatically. Not sure why the Mac doesn't, but this command is quite useful if you plan on sending the document over email. > Help/ suggestions/ comments welcome Signature- Burt Johnson MindStorm, Inc. http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html > I love my Macs (TiBookG4 + iMacG5), but 3 tiny things annoy me: > > 2- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional when applying update patch becomes > unusable (some silly comment about International Settings...) What is the "silly comment" error message's exact wording? They're usually there for pretty good reasons, error messages. > 3- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional again: usual procedure for my large > powerpoint presentation is to make a pdf with 2 slides per page. On the > office PC this reduces the file size typically from 20 MB to 1 MB. On > both Macs, I end up with a 12 MB pdf. I'd ask Adobe about compression and/or optimization of your PDF. Their support is very good. They can help you with #2 also. These both sound like application problems, probably both fixable. Adobe will be able to help you. Dave Hinz >3- Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional again: usual procedure for my large >powerpoint presentation is to make a pdf with 2 slides per page. On the >office PC this reduces the file size typically from 20 MB to 1 MB. On >both Macs, I end up with a 12 MB pdf. That one is easy. Your distiller Job Options settings are wrong. The Job Options dialog offers many, many options to control the size of your final PDFs. most likely, either your Compression settings or your Resample settings are wrong, or both. Acrobat lets yyou create PDFs anywhere from hundreds of megabytes in size to a few hundred K in size, depending on your needs, and also offers "pre-packaged" settings for press, printing on an inkjet printer, placing on the Web, whatever. The Job Options settings are described in detail in your manual. 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