HELP

[Aggers]

Yesterday I bought a new Nixon camera and have been attempting to download the instruction manual.

Now I'm in trouble. I am getting the following messages - Comodo Dragon has stopped working
and Adobe Acrobat has crashed.

As you can see I still managed to get though to Vocal Voices.

What should I do?

[Workingman]

Hi Aggers, did you download the manual to your computer or are you trying to open it from its location on the Internet?

If you have it downloaded you do not need Comodo Dragon at all, only Adobe Acrobat Reader. Acrobat is usually installed along with other software and the operating system. The shortcut should be in Programs>>>Adobe>>>...... If Acrobat is crashing you might need to get the latest reader update from here: http://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/

Note: Make sure to untick the McAfee security offer.

If you are trying to open the manual from its location on the web the problem might be with Comodo Dragon's in-built PDF Viewer or it might not even be installed. You can get a reader here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... cbdfmadadm

Personally for a file I am likely to open and read often I would download it to my computer and use a dedicated software to open it - in this case Adobe Acrobat Reader or similar.

If you do not have Acrobat Reader for some reason a good alternative would be Foxit: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader/

[Suff]

It sounds like the site spent so long streaming the manual to Acrobat that Comodo Dragon timed out, stopped feeding data to Acrobat and Acrobat (useless piece of shoddyware), crashed instead of handling it.

In IE I always right click and select to download the file then open it in acrobat from my local machine. This is really what you want anyway, you don't want to have to go to their site every time you want to look at it.

Not sure what the commands are in CD, it's not one of my "alternate" browsers.

[Workingman]

The trouble with these plugin architecture things is that there can be many plugins all trying to do the same thing........ sometimes all at the same time!

Chrome clones, same as Firefox clones, have a built in .pdf viewer to open them in tabs for reading, and from there they can be saved, but how true are they to the original?

I tend to save the original file, as do you Suff, then open it in a dedicated reader - usually Foxit or PDF-Xchange.

[Suff]

The painful experience of having to do this over and over again....

I shall now go and clean the pool with the pool cleaner. I've been ill for nearly two weeks and now that I'm getting better my workload just increases......

[Workingman]

I hadn't realised you were ill, though I did notice you not posting much, but thought that might be work. Hope your fit and well again.

[Aggers]

Sorry to hear you have been unwell. Suff. Hope you are better now.

With regard to my problem, it just seems that it was confined to the downloading job I was doing at the time and everything seems alright now.

With regard to downloading the camera instruction book, which contained about a hundred pages, my wife came up with the perfect answer.
She found, from the store where I bought it, Canon's telephone number and persuaded Canon to sent her a printed version of the instruction
book, saying that she doesn't have a computer, which is a good half-truth. That will save me a lot of hassle, paper and printing ink.

[Workingman]

Give Mrs A a banana.

My Canon handbook came in at 204 pages!

The only ones I printed off were the menus and what the icons did.

[Suff]

You didn't get my mail Frank?

Aggers, manuals are so large today because the systems have so many functions and options.

For me I don't print the manuals as they just sit there till I have the "1" feature I want to find buried in the menu. I find I can usually navigate the menu's and so long as I understand the subject (I don't understand all the features of focus on camera's), I can usually work out what the person writing the menu would do.

Then, when I do want that one feature, I find it much quicker to text search a 200 page manual than to flip through hundreds of pages looking for words. I've never been good at that and I find full text search a real boon.

As generations go on, people will move away from printed media. When it was a case of getting the specific piece of knowledge out of a specific persons head, printed media was a revolution. When it comes down to getting the specific word out of thousands of pages of printed text, printed media is as bad as finding the human to tell you what you want to know. Well compared to electronic media.

Interestingly, I don't know why manufacturers of devices like camera's haven't worked out that they can put the manual onto memory in the camera???? Forget going to the Internet. Forget supplying a CD. If you have a digital camera today, you have a computer. Hence you can get the manual. OK the most up to date one will be on the website. But actually the most relevant one can be right in the camera itself, not even an ordered CD run.

Funny how companies think....

[Workingman]

You didn't get my mail Frank?

Memory lapse as old age kicks in.