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PDF is not my favorite document format. I appreciate it’s essential portability across platforms feature, but it has always been clunky, slow, and intractible. Give me freely editable text any day. Adobe’s Acrobat Reader PDF reading application has always been a sluggish and clumsy behemoth, slow to start up and navigate, and awkward to use. Reportedly, the latest, version 6 is even more ponderous and slow than its predecessors, If someone could come up with a fast, lightweight PDF viewer, I would certainly use it. PDFViewer is a barebones PDF viewer for the Mac -- a Cocoa application compiled for OSX 10.2.x (Jaguar). . It is simple, small (less than 250kb) and as advertised, it is much faster than the alternatives. 
However, while the speedier response is much appreciated, PDF Viewer is still not quite there. You can’t copy and paste text from it, and it seems to have an upper limit as to the size of PDF documents it will open. It handled the iListen 1.6 user manual supplement fine, but refused to open the much larger iListen 1.5.5 manual, whose icon remained grayed out in the Open dialog. 
Still, it’s freeware, so we can’t complain too much. Within its limitations, PDFViewer works quite well, and it does launch and load substantially quicker than Acrobat Reader or OS X Preview. New features in this version : System requirements: PDFViewer is freeware For more information, visit: Strange Fax problem From Bob Hannah Hi Charles To resolve this I have: frustrated Hi Bob; David Pogue once called FAX technology “an intersection of hells.” An apt description. You didn’t say what FAX software you’re using with OS X, but I’m guessing that it’s FAX STF, which has a spotty reputation for reliability at best. I have not yet had any success with my brief sampling of OS X fax software. I’ve been spoiled by the excellent (as FAX goes) performance of the good old GlobalFax software that shipped with my Global Village modems back in the ‘90s, and that’s what I continue to use on the odd occasion I have to send or receieve a FAX. For future reference, if you do a lot of faxing, Page Sender seems to have the best reputation among the several OS X FAX software solutions. I digress. Your problem is certainly a strange one. It would seem that your FAX software has corrupted something in your Systam files that is locking it into sending FAXes only to your neighbor’s FAX number. That’s of course just a deductive guess. Beyond a clean system reinstall, I can.t think of anything to suggest. Good luck! Charles
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