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837091 2009-12-07 01:10:00 Hi all

I just followed a link to a newsletter I subscribe to

its a pdf and about 1mb in size (I think)

www.harpercollins.co.nz

But it crashed my browser (Latest stable FF), also tried it in IE6 and it crashed that as well.

Just want to make sure its their end and not my browser or adobe reader plugin

Thanks and apologies (if your browser crashes) in advance

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Hmmm just tested loading it directly in Adobe reader and it crashed that
Morgenmuffel (187)
837092 2009-12-07 01:14:00 Works fine here in Firefox, Chrome and IE. xyz823 (13649)
837093 2009-12-07 01:21:00 Probably adobe reader's fault Speedy Gonzales (78)
837094 2009-12-07 01:30:00 But it crashed my browser (Latest stable FF), also tried it in IE6 and it crashed that as well.



Hmmm just tested loading it directly in Adobe reader and it crashed that
Browser happy, using Foxit.
Dump Adobe.
pctek (84)
837095 2009-12-07 01:31:00 well I have the latest version, and i haven't had a prob with any other pdfs

But yes i am guessing thats the problem

I just tried it in Chrome, and rather than the browser crashing, it came up with a message saying acrobat plugin had crashed
Morgenmuffel (187)
837096 2009-12-07 02:14:00 I am trying out Sumatra,

I used foxit a few years ago but it had issues with a lot of pdfs and from memory links didn't work, or has that changed
Morgenmuffel (187)
837097 2009-12-07 02:27:00 Update foxit once you install it, with the firefox plugin. Then it should work. You can also install this (timheuer.com). If you get pdf files in outlook 2007, you can preview them straight away Speedy Gonzales (78)
837098 2009-12-07 03:36:00 Ok sumatra worked fine however one of the links didn't work

so I found and updated foxit on my system (bit worried that it said it needed to download 3.9451 terabytes of updates) see pic

Attached file: foxit.gif (www.imagef1.net.nz) (8 KB)

Foxit does seem to have improved a bit since I last used it
Morgenmuffel (187)
837099 2009-12-07 05:40:00 Fine here- Nightly FF + Foxit beeswax34 (63)
837100 2009-12-07 06:19:00 IE8 np.
:)
Trev (427)
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