Access snapshot viewer

[M Stanley]

Wait for release of Access 2007 runtime "Soon" to be able to use .PDF
format. In the meantime have to use Snapshot viewer. This will not install
on 4 Vista machines that I have tested, even if "Run as Administrator" No
fixes found in MS KB.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

I suggest using a 3rd party PDF creator. There are several free ones (search
Google) I've used CutePDF, but not recently. The best PDF creator I've found
is Win2PDF which costs up to $35 depending upon volume. It does work in
Vista and is very fast, so fast that it will have made a 40 page PDF before
Adobe even opens. I use it extensively. BTW, I use Foxit as a PDF reader
because it has more features, is a fraction of the size, and opens a PDF
orders of magnitude faster. It is also a free reader.

 

[SusanV]

We use CutePDF and it's slow - but the price is right for a small company -
free. Same with Foxit - much quicker than Acrobat, but users have Acrobat
installed also for the additional features when needed (Foxit is default)
<smile>
What's with Adobe Acrobat lately - serious bloatware!
SusanV

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

If you have it in your budget, try Win2PDF http://www.win2pdf.com Actually,
you can download and try it free.

I had a job where I had to print and email as many as 2,000 items on roughly
1,200 Purchase Orders at a time, and had to merge several hundred of them
with 36 page specification sheets (also pdf's). I had to batch them at 200
items at a time to avoid choking the mail server, but we still created
single page PDFs and emailed them in 3 seconds each, and the 37 page merged
ones in about 5 seconds. I haven't tried it on Vista yet, but win2pdf is
supposedly Vista ready.

BTW, I have no financial interest in any of the products that I recommend.
That would be a violation of my ethics as an MVP.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
http://www.accessmvp.com

 

[SusanV]

Looks very interesting - only one of my Access apps here at work needs to
output to PDF, and so I don't know whether the company would purchase it,
but I'll certainly give the trial a go and may purchase it myself.

Thanks for the info Arvin!
SusanV