Adobe Reader: sometimes get icon for "save as", sometimes don't
dances_wit...@yahoo.com
adobe reader downloaded from filehippo.
I click on a link to bring up a .pdf file - sometimes i receive a
version of reader which features an icon (looks like a 3.5" floppy)
to do a "save as".
Other times, I get a version of reader in which I have to select "save
as" from the "file" topmenu, because there's no such icon shown.
This is what happens, about 90% of occassions. At least, it does
function.
I cannot see any correlates of when i get which. Appears to be
random.
Does this software have adult supervision by Adobe? Is there any way
for me to _control_ what the software does?
Disclosure: my interest in becoming a deeply-embedded computer geek
are minimal. I want to use my computer the same way I use my food-
blender.... to make food, not to become a blender repairman.
Peter Flynn
> WIndows Vista ("home premium") on an Acer laptop. Latest version of
> adobe reader downloaded from filehippo.
>
> I click on a link to bring up a .pdf file - sometimes i receive a
> version of reader which features an icon (looks like a 3.5" floppy)
> to do a "save as".
>
> Other times, I get a version of reader in which I have to select "save
> as" from the "file" topmenu, because there's no such icon shown.
> This is what happens, about 90% of occassions. At least, it does
> function.
I have Adobe Reader for Linux, and I get a related error -- not the Save
icon, but the fact that when you open the application on its own (ie by
clicking the icon, rather than by clicking a PDF file), it comes up with
a toolbar that has no Open File icon -- you have to go to File|Open to
open a file. Not the best piece of interaction design...
> I cannot see any correlates of when i get which. Appears to be
> random.
>
> Does this software have adult supervision by Adobe? Is there any way
> for me to _control_ what the software does?
No. Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat are free-but-closed, so what it does
is controlled by Adobe, not you. If you want to control what it does,
use an Open-Source equivalent (GSview, Foxit, Sumatra, etc)
> Disclosure: my interest in becoming a deeply-embedded computer geek
> are minimal. I want to use my computer the same way I use my food-
> blender.... to make food, not to become a blender repairman.
Switch to Linux.
///Peter