P3 & Adobe Acrobat V7

Submitted by Mal Leadbetter on
Primavera Project Planner - P3

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Submitted by Rafael Davila on Thu, 2009-09-24 08:37
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Too much trouble, the arse got to be hurting.



Another option can be to try using Free Primo PDF.



http://www.primopdf.com/



Free Primo PDF works very well within some software but has issues when printing a workbook with many spreadsheets. If it has no problem with P3 and your windows version then you can use Acrobat to edit, group and add your bookmarks.



Nitro PDF in the other hand I never liked it, if you try it and decide to uninstall it will leave traces in the menu files of other software such as Excel and Word.



By the way, using Adobe if you select smallest file size option you can get a compression ratios of over 30 in your photo albums without noticing quality reduction. I make my photo albums inserting the photos into Word or Power Point. Good for e-mailing photos, 30MB is not the same as 1MB, extract the photos from you PDF and you will get them back to the original size.



Another trick I often use is to remove PDF protection using PDF Password Remover, because it does not search for the password and just wipe it out it is fast and never fails, got 100% success. Useful if you download PDF files from the internet.



Best regards,

Rafael

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Submitted by Mal Leadbetter on Thu, 2009-09-24 05:47
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Thanks all for the responces. Gave me a couple of idea’s.

Anyway have found a convoluted work around. It’s a royal pain in the arse but here it is



1 - Set default printer to Adobe PDF

2 - Start P3

3 - Open P3 Project file & view you want to print

4 - Print Preview

5 - Click Print Icon in Print Preview

Select Print to file

Click Print (this opens Print to file dialogue box)

6 - Name file

ie viewxx.prn (note I could change file extension)

select folder location for file to saved to

Click

You may get a General Print Error at this stage. Just go back and repeat Steps 4 to 6. This worked for me

7 - Go to location where file saved to.

8 - Find file and all the follwoing options worked for me

Double click file - opens it in Adobe

Right mouse click on file

Either

Convert to Adobe PDF

Open with Adobe PDF

9 - File should open in Adobe DONT FORGET TO SAVE AS PDF.



As I said a pain in the arse, but it worked. Saved me a day going into a company office, getting IT dept to look at issue etc etc etc



Regards

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Submitted by Jose Frade on Wed, 2009-09-23 09:21
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Hi Mal,



Long time ago I had a similar problem.P3.1 was not working with Acrobat, particularly whan I had some logo in P3 - it was bloking and not printing.



I cannot remember clearly the steps made towards solution but I changed some settings regarding the acrobat printer but in the printer properties mode in Windows. I thing I changed the order to start printing the document (start printing with last in spool). May be not a big help but I do not remember exactly due as I said long time ago.



BR

JMFrade

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Submitted by Rafael Davila on Wed, 2009-09-23 09:17
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No surprise at all.



From



http://support.primavera.com/supnews.nsf/2d64d51e13e53ea6852568820057c0…



P3 3.1 PRINTING ISSUES ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000



Issue #1

When you select File, Print or try to print from within Print Preview on a Windows 2000 machine, the following error message appears: "Printer error: General error..". As a workaround, use the Print icon in the Layout to print successfully (without the error message).



Issue #2

When you select File, Print Setup and try to change to a different printer, P3 3.0 and P3 3.1 do not keep the setting. As a workaround, choose File, Print Setup and select the specific printer. Then, check the "Make Default" checkbox.



Issue #3

When printing to Adobe PDF writer version 4.05 on Windows 2000, an error is generated. As a workaround, bypass the Save As dialog box. Adobe’s Web site explains how to bypass the Save As dialog box http://ocpf.net/devnotes/skip_adobe_dialog.pdf

Note the above site reference is different to the one given by Primavera Support.



Hope this helps,

Rafael

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Submitted by Mal Leadbetter on Wed, 2009-09-23 08:44
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Thanks for the quick responce



No joy with this solution



Cheers