Acrobat Pro 8 Help files

[William_Bowie@adobeforums.com]

On a G4 Powerbook the Acrobat menu items run into the Apple icons (like VPN/AIrport/ etc. that appear at the upper right corner of the screen. I can access the Acrobat Help menu but nothing happens -- meaning the Adobe Help Viewer doesn't seem to be invoked.

Acrobat Pro 8 Help files work fine on a desktop machine with a much larger monitor where the Acrobat 8 menus don't run all the way over to the Apple icons.

Anyone else having a similar problem?

Many thanks.

[MarkATS@adobeforums.com]

On a G4 Powerbook




12", 15" or 17" ?

[William_Bowie@adobeforums.com]

15 inch

[William_Bowie@adobeforums.com]

and 10.4.8

[MarkATS@adobeforums.com]

I can see this happening. Not sure what is supposed to happen when there are lots of application menu items and static menu bar items. It's probably worse on a 12"

[William_Bowie@adobeforums.com]

What does "I can see this happening" mean. Theory or is it happening on a machine you use?

[MarkATS@adobeforums.com]

Theory. I only have a 17" PowerBook. I'll see if I can find a 12" or 15"

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

It isn't a problem for me on a G4 PowerBook 15", Mac OS X 10.4.8, and Acrobat 8 Professional.

In the Finder I have 10 menulets to the left of my time, user name, and Spotlight.

In Acrobat 8, I have 7 menulets to the left of time, user name, and Spotlight. There is no colllision with the Acrobat Help menu.

Maybe it's a particular menulet that's causing the conflict.

[MarkATS@adobeforums.com]

Does the keyboard shortcut, command-? work to bring up Help?

[William_Bowie@adobeforums.com]

No it doesn't. I've installed it twice.

Perhaps this has something to do with it. The purchase was a download. The install worked fine on the desktop to which I downloaded. I then burned a cd with the dmg and installed on the laptop from that?

Long shot.

Thanks for your help.