Answer #1

I'm doing this exactly the same as I've done for 3+ years, MANY times.

With the Document open preferences, I set it to 'full screen', 100 percent.

The Pshop source images are 800x600 @ 72 dpi.

The Default zoom for all links is 'fixed' and the pages are at 100% when the links are created.

Only the 'background' for each screen is created in Pshop. There are NO layers or 'vectored' objects in the PDF generated out of Pshop. All the buttons are in the Pshop file, with links in Acrobat (rather than the forms tool).

Acrobat is essentially used as a delivery medium for the linked/placed media files (QuickTime movies & wav files) that either auto start (page action) or by links, or by using the multimedia tool to place the poster frame directly on the background.

Looks beautiful (function of the Pshop backgrounds, videos, sounds), very efficient, loads fast (on all systems), no headaches for the end user . . . UNTIL NOW.

And, it ONLY causes trouble on windows machines NOT RUNNING Acrobat 6. v5 everything looks fine! On the machines that we reinstall v5 . . . everything is back to norm. (suggested as a fix in the associated read me file)

I can live with it . . . but why make the user jump through another hoop?

Answer #2

Well it sorta is a Pshop issue, because when I was testing this latest project on a Windows 98 machine (for the first time) with Acrobat 6 about a week ago I got the greatly enlarged screens - about 25 %. (menus and buttons were off the screen) Upon my second try, I launched Acrobat first and got the auto update window.

I said yes (thinking this was the problem), and it took me to an Adobe page that suggest I run the 6.01 update. When I read the associated read me it said there was a KNOWN problem with certain PHOTOSHOP created PDFs displaying at the correct resolution. I thought BINGO.

However, when I clicked the pop up list to select Windows 98, and DSL/Cable connection I was downloaded the 5.05 Acrobat installer???

That fixed the problem (if you could call that a fix).

I searched Adobes web site with various key workds and phrases, but have found NO MENTION of this other that to say that the 6.01 update fixes some multimedia problems.

I have had two potential clients in the last week comment about will all my viewers have to reinstall an older version of Acrobat? I assured them, that it is a small percentage of vewers that have this problem . . . But you can tell there is a certain caution on their side of the deal.

And to reinterate, it only happens with Photoshop creatd PDFs (on a Mac - Im assuming) running on older windows machines (Ive not had the problem with XP) with Acrobat 6.

Crazy!

Mr_SSP_Private

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