Update of A Guide to Organic Chemistry Mechanisms

Feb 2007 Filed in: Publishing
I had created Adobe Acrobat files in December for each chapter of TLOC. When I did so, my objective was to put them in proper order and to protect them. I had begun to wonder why many people have examined the files for a few minutes and then moved on. Showing them the book is the best I can do. Why aren't they printing any pages? You really can't learn organic just be looking at a few problems. You have to do them. I don't see how people can do them without printing them.

So, tried my own site. I clicked on a page, but it wouldn't do anything. It wouldn't start Adobe Reader or anything. I went to Windows XP and it opened fine after entering my password as expected. I printed a page. Adobe Document Center logged the printing. This confirms that people are just looking at pages without doing any arrow pushing.

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I had created Adobe Acrobat files in December for each chapter of A Guide to Organic Chemistry Mechanisms. When I did so, my objective was to put them in proper order and to protect them. I had begun to wonder why many people have examined the files for a few minutes and then moved on. Showing them the book is the best I can do. Why aren't they printing any pages? You really can't learn organic just be looking at a few problems. You have to do them. I don't see how people can do them without printing them.

So, tried my own site. I clicked on a page, but it wouldn't do anything. It wouldn't start Adobe Reader or anything. I went to Windows XP and it opened fine after entering my password as expected. I printed a page. Adobe Document Center logged the printing. This confirms that people are just looking at pages without doing any arrow pushing.

I also discovered that while I had an idea of what one should see, looking at that same information now, it is lacking in that direction. I need to have an introductory page for each chapter telling students what they are going to find on each page and what they must do. I think I would like to make printing as the only option as to what you would get so they would get the most benefit from the content.

I was looking at Apple rumors. It is rumored that Adobe is going to update Photoshop soon. Apple is also rumored to be readying release of OS 10.5. I am awaiting these updates before I update my pdf files. I have ordered a trial version of Adobe Acrobat Pro v 8.0 for the Mac. I hope that will let me do the needed updates and bide my time for the release of the Adobe Creative Suite that will have updates for all of these important files.