I installed Acrobat 10x last night and obviously got something wrong. Trying to open the program from the desktop I get *the ordinal 19 could not be located in the dynamic link library MAP132.dll.*
This is XP home. Repair attempts have not helped and for some reason
*system restore* will not function! Anti-virus issue?Before I try a strip out and re-install, any thoughts?
regards
Remember the Microsoft Three 'R's;
Restart Reboot Reinstall
Have a look at this thread, especially the last post:
The fourth R:
"Replace with Linux".
Well, yes. Or in my case "don't Run windows in the first place". Never have. Never will.
I have a Pinnacle VHS converter, to save tapes to DVD, and it won't run with Linux. Some people can make them work, others can't, and it won't work with my PC anyway, as it doesn't have the required spec. Pinnacle have zero interest in supporting Linux. So I am in the market for a new PC, and I think I will use the normal OEM Windows install for this purpose. Every now and then, I come across a program that, despite all the Linux proponents' claims, doesn't "Just work", and it would be good to have a way of checking and using these things. If you want an example, my HP printer cannot be made to do a Clean from Linux (or at least Ubuntu), whereas with XP it just comes right up as an easy option. Even the Ubuntu/Cups Help pages agree that it is not available. I tried once to run XP in a Virtualbox, but it wouldn't recognise the USB ports.
That's because you were running the Open Source version. If you download the commercial version (still free) from Sun/Oracle, it supports USB.
(I keep an XP VM around for the one thing that won't run under Linux.)
Huge wrote: [snip]
It's four "R's" - the final one is Repeat.
Ah-ha! But that PC is not available now, and I don't have a set of XP discs around, so I'm not about to try again.But thanks for the info. If your 'one thing' isn't Pinnacle, then there are now three identified non-Linux operations (at least).
I was about to state that not even MS users can be that dumb. And then I remembered that they can.
No, it's my "rubber piano".
Just wondering why use such a device..... I brought a DVD recorder and connected it to my VHS recorder. Doing this meant I could just leave the thing going for 3 hours and still use my computer for playing games and my TV for watching eastenders :)
Encoding such things is quite time consuming unless you have a pretty fast PC.
I have a few Macs so don't really come up against such problems .
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That is a point. But I was trying to not buy more stuff than I need to, as I know that I will soon need a new PC. If I bought something new, it would likely be a PVR, which is not the same thing. But there's still the point about drivers which just don't work in Linux.
--=20 Davey.
Similarly I regularly find things nowadays that 'just work' in Linux and yet cause endless misery in Windows. This is particularly true of
*some* HP printers. I have an HP7310 all-in-one and it's just a total disaster in Windows but the (HP supplied) Linux drivers are very solid.It's no longer true that there are always more/better drivers for Windows.
Our DVD recorder will not record from tapes with Macrovision. Maybe the Pinnacle thingy does.
MBQ
Was it a fresh install or an update? I've updated both my XP PCs to Acrobat 10 without problems.
Seems to depend on the recording SW used with my Pinnacle thingy; Windows Movie maker is quite happy to ignore Macrovision protection whereas other SW won't .
I'm not saying it is, but I am saying that some things don't work in Linux the way some advocates imply that it does. Saying that "You need to update your hardware", as some folks have done, doesn't count; if it worked fine with XP, all I am asking for is the same equipment to work with Linux. To use your comparison, I had an HP 600 Deskjet All-in-One that worked perfectly with Windows, but with Ubuntu I could set it to work as a printer, but all attempts to get it to work as a scanner failed. It would be recognised as there, but wouldn't work. And again, there was no "Clean" facility available. I like Ubuntu, but it is not the answer to everything.
Then you are being somewhat naive. In the Windows world many items of hardware are designed broken and they hand of processing tasks that the harware should do to the CPU in order for the manufacturer to cut costs. This results in crippled hardware that can only function with specific drivers. The drivers are proprietary to the manufacturer and with increasinly draconian copyright legislation idependent parties are not permitted to reverse engineer the code.
HP don't support Linux, they don't even support some of their own kit on their own HP UX platform. Educated users will choose printers that they know will work cross-platform such as PostScript printers, not dreadful GDI devices.
If you knew what you were doing, you would select your hardware more carefully. Since, clearly, you don't know much about what you are buying, stick to Windows if it does what you want. Just don't expect those who do have a clue to say "yes, that was an extremely good choice" because it wasn't.
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