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,Ok, the problem is on your machine. How exactly are you creating the file? What are your settings?
Good question. What computer is failing to open these files?
If running a 32bit version of Windows, you have to install a 64 bit version. The hardware has to be 64 bit compatible — check with the manufacturer of yours. Back everything up. Changing from Win...
Since it is F-2008, I’m assuming Win 7 32 bit. PDF (Portable Document Format)i s an Adobe creation that they have released as a standard. Apple integrated it into OS X from nearly the beginni...
Start from the beginning. How did you create the pdf file? What OS? After you’ve saved it, can you open the file on the computer that created it?
A colleague of mine told me to save the file as a PDF on a flashdrive. The pdf is not your problem. You don't have privileges to modify the file on the flash drive including open it. Rather tha...
To Mike R's point, use what works. For myself, I declared SS Lite useless around 2002. That app and my opinion of it were unchanged when last offered with Finale 2014.5. Heck, you can get PhotoScor...
I’ve looked at PhotoScore. For what I do, it’s no better but there are reports that it handles handwritten scores better (better being a relative term). Not an issue for me. But $249 as opposed to ...
I’ve had reasonable results with text and expressions in SS X2P. There was an earlier SSP that was discontinued around 2011 or so that couldn’t handle text IIRC — I didn’t think much of it. Most ...
MM announced that scanning would be removed two years ago and gave their reasons. They emailed everyone whether you read it or not—that was June 20, 2016, two years ago today. They were clear as to...