my pics are coming out in different sizes in the PDF, CS3.

DB
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Feb 10, 2009
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Most of them are almost filling the screen,with the white border, but 2 of them, which I had previously cropped to 4×6, are quite tiny, like 2in X 1 1/2in.

Even more odd, one that I hadn’t cropped, also came out smaller, however not as small as the cropped ones. It was about 3 X 5 in.
Leopard. Mac OSX 10.5.2. dona

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Ram
Feb 10, 2009
Dona,

No one, absolutely no one should be running 10.5.2. Update to 10.5.6 ASAP, regardless of whether this is the cause of yor problems or not.

Have you updated Photoshop to 10/0.1 and Bridge to 2.1.1.9?

Until you have updated and run a minimum of maintenance routines (see next post), we are not in a position to figure out possible causes for your problem.
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Ram
Feb 10, 2009
I still advocate Repairing Permissions (with Apple’s Disk Utility) before AND after any system update or upgrade, as well as before AND after installing any software that requires an installer that asks for your password.

I have seen software installations go sour because the installer did not find everything as and where it should be.

I have also seen software installations go bad because the installer did not clean up after itself properly and did not leave everything as and where it should be.

This is just my own personal opinion and practice based on my own observations. Others may disagree and that’s OK. I can only base my routines and my advice to others on my own experience and conclusion. I don’t pretend to know why others believe otherwise.

Repairing Permissions after the fact (i. e. not immediately before and after an install) may NOT help. Try it anyway, though.

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Additionally, if your machine does not run 24/7 so that it runs the daily, weekly and monthly Cron Scripts in the middle of the night as intended by Apple, run Cocktail (shareware) as well.

Cron Scripts are maintenance routines designed by Apple to run on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in the middle of the night.

If you don’t run them, you WILL run into trouble, sooner rather than later.

Here’s an excerpt from the Apple tech doc <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107388>

Mac OS X performs background maintenance tasks at certain times if the computer is not in sleep mode. If your computer is shut down or in sleep at the designated times, the maintenance does not occur. In that case, you may want or need to run these manually.
Mac OS X periodically runs background tasks that, in part, remove system files that are no longer needed. This includes purging older information from log files or deleting certain temporary items. These tasks do not run if the computer is shut down or in sleep mode. If the tasks do not run, it is possible that certain log files (such as system.log) may become very large.
Also, from: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106978>

The disk activity generated by find is a normal part of file system maintenance, used for tasks such as removing invisible temporary files that are used by the system. It is scheduled to occur early in the morning at 03:15 everyday, 04:30 on Saturdays, and 05:30 on the first day of each month.

NOTE: There have been comments to the effect that Apple "fixed" this in 10.4.2 and later versions of the OS, but I have not been able to verify this to my satisfaction. The reference in the 10.4.2 release notes are far from explicit on this subject.

Other, more reliable reports indicate that this seems to have been fixed in the current version of Leopard.

In any event, Repairing Permissions cannot hurt.

If you have DiskWarrior, run it regularly too.
DB
dona_bozzi
Feb 11, 2009
thank you, I am going to look into this. I hope updating is free! I just bought my mac book pro last may! Maybe I’ll post again after. dona
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Ram
Feb 11, 2009
I hope updating is free!

Yes, all those updates are free.

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