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Topic: Re: Acrobat Capture and text TouchUp crashes
Conf: (P-PDF) General, Msg: 49363
From: duffj
Date: 5/29/2002 04:31 PM

Michael:

Sounds like some evil Mac instability... Although you are, as
you say, "glad to be using a Mac", you may have better luck
under Windoze with this process.

Duff Johnson
Document Solutions, Inc.
www.document-solutions.com

>Sometimes Acro 4 crashes during capture (running Capture
Server), although infrequently...this can be midway
>through the second or third page...a total freeze that needs
a hard restart (glad I'm using a Mac)
>
>Most frequently, however, it is during correction of
"Capture Suspects" (...sounds like a bad cop show from
>UPN). I seldom can correct more than two pages of text
without Acro 4 self-shutting and my computer telling me
>to save whatever I can and restart. Upon "restarting",
Finder quits (not the cpu), and I find rejected files in the
>trash (sometimes some in the Temp folder in Capture's
folder). I can then reopen Acro 4 and continue, although
>usually I actually restart. i.e., when acrobat crashes,
normal restart suspiciously becomes a two-staged process.
>
>Also, nearly as frequent, is "soft crashing" while using
Text Touchup...often at the end of one or two pages (I
>don't attempt any more...correcting text attributes for more
than 2 pages causes a consistant application crash)
>
>NONE of this happened with Acro 3...I could flip on through
5 or ten pages at a time without difficulty.
>
>True, I prefer using Acro 4 with its greater control over
the creation of files, and I prefer the ease of OCR in
>Acrobat over the somewhat more sophisticated OmniPage
Pro...the end result is to be .pdf files, either for
>archiving and student use or for my web site; why not do it
all in Acrobat.
>
>I have it working after a fashion, but that's like saying
one can walk on one's hands...not very far and only a bit
>at a time.