Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Breakfast: oatmeal with fresh diced organic red apple, organic cinnamon, organic nonfat milk; 16 ounces of generic V8. To work. Forwarded messages accidentally tagged as spam. P-card paperwork. Calendar management. Lots of listserv management all day today. MCCA renewal followup for the IRC with Rodney and Valerie. Facebook request followup for Devi and Susie. Helped several students with questions that were sent in during my furlough break. Recommended a panelist to John G for a future IT services meeting forum. Processed timesheets for Rodney and Eric. Several update from the dean edits for Susie throughout the day. ICRD work: ICN?—Regarding this problem described by Tricia on adobeforums: "We have a fillable savable form created with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional. Sometimes the form emailed back to our office and opened in Reader Version 9 appears initially to have blank fields unless you click into the field - you can then see the data. However, you can't print the form with the data displayed and the data seems to disappear when you click to the next field. If using Reader version 8, and if you click the highlight button it acts like a toggle switch to view the data in the fields; however you still can't print. Any ideas on what is causing this and how we can fix it?" I had this exact same problem. When I opened our problematic PDF, then selected File > Properties, I noticed that the PDF Producer field said Mac OS X 10.6.2 Quartz PDFContext. To me, this indicated that the form was filled in using an application that was not Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat and that that other application (presumably Apple Preview) might write the form data to the file in a different-enough manner as to cause the problem observed. Using Bill @ VT's comments (from the same thread), I was able to print the data only by selecting "Form fields only" in the Comments and Forms picklist in the Print dialog. A tedious way to fix this problem might be to use Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat to open the problematic document side-by-side with a new, empty form, then copy/paste the entries from one to the other. Alternately, you could ask the form completer to do the same, taking care to use Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat rather than another PDF application.—Sent this month's websteering lunch reminder. Posted and announced updated schedules for Lucia. Facelift project edits for Susie: make a gift. Copied the Chem 111 website to a new name (PC 111) for Dick S, gave him instructions on the transition. Backed up website data to external hard drives. To home. Repaired a fallen-off button on my Zara coat. House chores. Dinner at home with Patrick: herb and cheese ravioli in tomato cream sauce, hot water. Unplugged the Microsoft Trackball Optical, plugged in an old Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical I had in a box from long ago. Completed our state tax return—we get a refund! Hooray! Switched back to the Apple Mighty Mouse after unsticking it. This time, my solution was to use compressed air while holding the scroll ball in. I also rolled the mouse upside down on its scroll ball and pressed firmly and moved it repeatedly in up-down and left-right movements a whole lot. Edited photos. Monitor image persistence (burn-in) seems to have been reduced over the past 2 days. The solution I used is one not recommended by Apple, but here it is: set the screen saver to Spectrum, set Energy Saver to not turn off the screen, then run the screen saver overnight for one or two nights.