Heretic:
If you come here asking for help, and someone suggests something they think will help, and you mention that you’ll try it but don’t say anything about whether it works, instead reiterating that your prior setup works perfectly for everything else, and they suggest it again, so you blast them because of course they should know without you telling them that you tried it and it didn’t work(!), I am afraid you may find that people will not be as helpful after you do this as before.
I am sure Luke and co. will do everything practical to produce a more basic PDF to accommodate your reader preferences and printer drivers. In the mean time:
Acrobat Reader will work just fine with Win2k. 2k was a really solid operating system, still is for most purposes. You can also get older versions of Reader here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html
Reader 9 will work with Win2k Service Pack 4. SP4 was released on June 26th, 2003 and is therefore nearly five and a half years old. If you haven’t grabbed the updates for your OS in the last six years, all I can say is I hope you have good antivirus software.
Reader 7 is available from the link I gave above and works on Win2k SP2 and up. I think SP2 was late 2001?
In my experience a lot of the problems I’ve had with PDFs come from printer drivers. Many printer drivers, especially older or lower-end ones, don’t handle some kinds of PDFs very cleanly and can crash the printer and/or the originating application.
If you can display the character sheet correctly, you could save it as a jpg or take a screenshot and print the resulting image.
What Dwight was getting at there is that PDFs are actually pretty complicated. It is indeed possible that the problem is some issue with Foxit not correctly displaying part of a perfectly legitimate PDF file even though your past experience with Foxit has been good. That is not to say that no one here (either here on the forums or at BWHQ) will try to help you with that. Obviously several people here do want to help you.
Now, I spent a few minutes tracking down system requirements and finding a download site for old versions of Acrobat. I did that because I wanted to help you. If you come back acting like it’s my fault that you’re being persecuted for having an older OS, or like I’m supposed to somehow divine from your posting habits what troubleshooting procedures you’ve performed, my helpfulness will evaporate.
On the other hand, if you can’t get Acrobat 7.0.9 to work for you, PM me here on the forums with an email address that can accept attachments and I’ll send you jpg versions of the character sheets. They won’t scale as well or be as pretty as the PDFs, but they should be easier to print.
