Recently developed an apparent conflict with Illustrator v9.0 Message comes up "Acrobat PDF file format is having difficulties. The file may be damaged." After hitting the " OK " I lose ALL tool boxes and floating pallets. Switching from Illustrator to another program , then back sometimes brings the pallets back , but not always. Also I've put the computer to sleep ? by using the Illustrator Key command to convert text to outline ( Apple, Shift, O ) Paul McMillan tshirt at sympatico.ca