[Zope] PDF Zope Book freakyness

[Charlie Reiman]

To clarify: I'm not opening the file, I'm not talking about IE, and I'm not
talking about Reader. I'm getting file properties from The Explorer... you
know, the big GUI thing with the icons and drive letters. Sure, MS insists
it can't be separated from IE, but we know better.

I agree that opening files under Acrobat's OLE/COM/ActiveX browser
integrating thing is generally not stable but that has nothing to do with my
problem.

Thanks for the help but i'm satisfied the 2.6 book will be created
differently and probably not have this problem.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Jens
> Vagelpohl
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 5:52 PM
> To: Charlie Reiman
> Cc: Chris McDonough; zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] PDF Zope Book freakyness
>
>
> FWIW, back in my windows-"dark ages" i have always found that using
> PDF-files within internet explorer was a really bad thing to do. save
> it to your drive and open it with acrobat reader. that solved many a
> crash for me.
>
> jens
>
>
> On Tuesday, Sep 3, 2002, at 18:01 US/Eastern, Charlie Reiman wrote:
>
> > Because, as I noted, it only happens with that file. That doesn't mean
> > acrobat is not buggy but it does mean that file is special, special in
> > a bad
> > way.
> >
> > I'm sure both components are in error in some way but I'm not likely
> > to have
> > much influence with Adobe.
> >
> > BTW, it's not the Reader I'm talking about here. I have Reader
> > installed,
> > sure, but it's Acrobat (sans 'Reader') that most likely adds the PDF
> > Properties tab. That's why I imagine very few other folks have seen
> > this.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
> >> Chris
> >> McDonough
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 2:31 PM
> >> To: Charlie Reiman; zope@zope.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Zope] PDF Zope Book freakyness
> >>
> >>
> >> How is this a bug in the book and not in your version of Acrobat?
> >> The sins of the data should never be visited on the reader. ;-)
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Charlie Reiman" <creiman@kefta.com>
> >> To: <zope@zope.org>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 3:14 PM
> >> Subject: [Zope] PDF Zope Book freakyness
> >>
> >>
> >>> I've got a very strange problem with the PDF version of the Zope
> >> Book under
> >>> Windows 2k. If I right click on it and select properties, the
> >> properties
> >>> dialog never appears. Instead the explorer starts sucking down all
> >> my CPU
> >>> cycles.
> >>>
> >>> This only happens with this book. The Admin guide shows its
> >> properties just
> >>> fine.
> >>>
> >>> I have Acrobat installed, which seems to supply explorer with a
> >> PDF
> >>> Properties tab under the standard properties tab. I'm guessing the
> >> ZB PDF is
> >>> malformed in some slight way and the PDF Property pane freaks out.
> >>>
> >>> Is anyone else seeing this? Can it be isolated and fixed for the
> >> 2.6 book
> >>> release (assuming it's not just me)?