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| Thread ID: 61526 | 2005-09-07 23:19:00 | PDF Lost | Guerilla Surgeon (6848) | Press F1 |
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| 386737 | 2005-09-07 23:19:00 | My computer, running Windows XP professional and has suddenly decided that it cannot read PDF files, in spite of the fact that I have been cheerfully doing this for years and I have I discover at least three versions of Adobe Acrobat on my hard drive. This is really frustrating as I need to read PDF files for my work. It decided that I should look on the Internet for a programme to open these files and it decided that this programme was Adobe Acrobat, whereupon I downloaded the latest version of Adobe Acrobat to my hard drive, but it still won't read PDF files.Arrrgh!!! GS | Guerilla Surgeon (6848) | ||
| 386738 | 2005-09-07 23:36:00 | Go Start / Settings / Folder Options / File Types. Under extensions find PDF and check what application is set to handle that file type. If it's not Adobe Acrobat Document, change it. | Greg (193) | ||
| 386739 | 2005-09-08 00:03:00 | also possible that you need a late version of acrobat.....if you have xp then acrobat 7 or I believe they have a 7.1 version too........documents created in later versions of acrobat are sometimes unreadable by earlier versions...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 386740 | 2005-09-08 00:57:00 | There was Foxit PDF Reader (www.foxitsoftware.com) which was mentioned in the forums a while back Here (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 386741 | 2005-09-08 02:23:00 | I sometimes use Acrobat 4 and it occasionally complains that a PDF file might have parts which it can't produce. But it still does its best. ;) I suspect the XP SP2 security settings ... perhaps an Automatic Update has set them back so that PDFs are not allowed. (That's because a PDF file is based on PostScript, so is actually a programme which is interpreted by Acrobat Reader. ) It's not considered totally safe to execute any programme which comes off the Internet. ;) PDF files are pretty safe however. :thumbs: "But, if it's security", you ask, "why does it say it needs a programme to display the files?" I don't know. :D |
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| 386742 | 2005-09-08 10:13:00 | uninstall each version & download version 7 - that might help. | quarry (252) | ||
| 386743 | 2005-09-09 08:06:00 | The PDF files you can't read, do you know what version of Adobe was used to produce them?, if my memory serves me right the exe file was changed at v4 but Greg's suggestion should sort that out. Adobe Reader v6 had problems, as suggested would uninstall and remove every trace of Adobe Reader , then download the latest v7.0.3 and run update. | FrankS (257) | ||
| 386744 | 2005-09-09 22:34:00 | Thanks everyone for the advice. I tried the start / settings thingy but my computer doesn't seem to work that way at least, start does not lead to settings or folder or options or whatever. I had already gotten rid of all previous versions of Acrobat, but even though I had downloaded and set up version seven, it seemed to have disappeared. So I just downloaded it again, set it up and when I put it in its place so to speak, the computer told me that already existed there, so I replaced it with the 'new' version and now everything works fine, except I cannot for the life of me figure out why the previous version seven didn't work.GS | Guerilla Surgeon (6848) | ||
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