Post by BuckSkin on Oct 27, 2018 8:05:58 GMT
As per the link that taco40 posted in this thread:
photoshopelementsandmore.com/thread/5018/time-update
I downloaded the whole package.
I unzipped the outer wrapper to reveal four more zip-files and a folder named _MacOSX.
I discarded the _MacOSX folder and unzipped the other four files.
Much to my surprise, within each was also included another _MACOSX folder.
I opened one of the MAC folders to find PDF files that had my PDFXchange Editor icon and listed PDFXchange Editor as the default means of reading these files; I didn't try it as I didn't want to chance messing something up.
However, what really surprised me was that in the size column, the MAC PDFs were each listed as 1KB; whereas, the normal Windows PDFs were more like 4,000KB each.
I know absolutely nothing about the MAC O/S.
How can the MAC PDF files be approximately 1/4000 the size of Windows PDFs ?
And, if that actually be the case, why would they bundle the much bigger Windows files with the tiny MAC files; one would think it would be much less of a load for a MAC user to not have to download the huge Windows package to get the miniscule MAC package ?
I am tempted to try opening one of the MAC files, but I don't want to spend tomorrow sorting out whatever episode that I may cause.
The vast difference in size has just made me curious; I should have discarded all of the MAC folders before I looked inside, then I wouldn't be puzzling over this.........
photoshopelementsandmore.com/thread/5018/time-update
I downloaded the whole package.
I unzipped the outer wrapper to reveal four more zip-files and a folder named _MacOSX.
I discarded the _MacOSX folder and unzipped the other four files.
Much to my surprise, within each was also included another _MACOSX folder.
I opened one of the MAC folders to find PDF files that had my PDFXchange Editor icon and listed PDFXchange Editor as the default means of reading these files; I didn't try it as I didn't want to chance messing something up.
However, what really surprised me was that in the size column, the MAC PDFs were each listed as 1KB; whereas, the normal Windows PDFs were more like 4,000KB each.
I know absolutely nothing about the MAC O/S.
How can the MAC PDF files be approximately 1/4000 the size of Windows PDFs ?
And, if that actually be the case, why would they bundle the much bigger Windows files with the tiny MAC files; one would think it would be much less of a load for a MAC user to not have to download the huge Windows package to get the miniscule MAC package ?
I am tempted to try opening one of the MAC files, but I don't want to spend tomorrow sorting out whatever episode that I may cause.
The vast difference in size has just made me curious; I should have discarded all of the MAC folders before I looked inside, then I wouldn't be puzzling over this.........