Adobe Acrobat 5 Forum

As others have remarked, "save as..." doesn't work. They have also mentioned that you can get around this by copying the file to the name you intend to "save as" before you open Acrobat. This works OK if you are opening a PDF file, but it doesn't help if you are creating a new file (either using "Open as PDF" or "Open web page").

In those cases you can save by printing the file.

Note: I tried "print to file" but it doesn't ask me where to save the file and doing unix cmd "find . -mtime 1" doesn't really help. Without "print to file" checked, I can at least find the file in a printer queue.

Ugly, but it worked at least once!

Hi, I've been doing a bit of testing under CrossOver Office Pro 4.2.0 and here's what I got:

Save as... = crashes
Open/Capture web page = freezes or crashes
Print to file = works when used with the KDE printing system
Open as PDF = i opened triplegears.jpg without problems but it crashed on "Save" and "Save As..."

I will try and do more testing, but considering that we can use the Acrobat Reader for most of these tasks and that the Acrobat Distiller coming w/Acrobat 5 works perfectly (at least I didn't have problems with it) I'd say the app is somewhat usable.

Bye,
Fabio

When Acrobat 5 Pro "prints to file" the file is always placed in the .../Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 5/Acrobat folder, and it is always named "FILE:".

I always use the Wine Postscript print driver to print from Acrobat to file, so the file prints as a postscript file.

Successive reprints always overwrite the same file, so the filename never changes.

So I banged up a shell script which calls ghostscript via ps2pdf, and converts the postscript printed file named "FILE:" into a PDF file, ie:

!#/bin/sh
infile_url="/root/.cxoffice/acrobat_bottle/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 5/Acrobat/FILE:"
outfile_url=/root/aaa.pdf
ps2pdf13 $infile_url $outfile_url
evince $outfile_url

I guess you need to "yum install ghostscript" if you haven't already got the utilities installed.

Then I created a GUI desktop launcher for this shell script so I now fast click on it as soon as Acrobat prints it to file.