Cannot print book PDFs from network drive

[Combs, Richard]

Craig Ede wrote:
 
> Acrobat X is kind of funky though. It doesn't post alerts to the screen
> when there are problems. Instead, it adds a document to the taskbar
> which you have to click on to see. This applies to situations where you
> are being asked to name the file and choose where it will be stored. It
> certainly would be better if it brought this things to your attention
> directly on the screen via a pop-up dialog.

Since being forced to move to Win 7, I've seen this problem with a number of programs (including Acrobat 9, which is what I'm using). 

When a program displays a modal dialog box requiring input from the user (such as a File Save or Print dialog, or message that must be acknowledged), that dialog box should take focus -- that is, appear on top of all other open windows and be selected. In Win 7, this often doesn't happen. I can't tell you how many times I've thought that an application wasn't responding to my input only to realize that there was a dialog hidden somewhere, waiting patiently for input from me. Aargh!

I assumed that Win 7 introduced some changes in app-to-OS communications that pre-Win 7 apps don't properly handle. But Acrobat X was released _after_ Win 7, right? Could it be that the problem is with Win 7 itself? 

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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