I have IE 6 and XP Home, with all the latest updates, etc.

I have Acrobat 5 installed.

When I click on a link to a PDF file, it downloads the file just like it
should, starts Acrobat 5 just like it should, and when everything is all set
.... it all just stops. Nothing is displayed. It doesn't continue. The odd
thing is that it doesn't claim that Acrobat is "not responding" or that sort
of thing. It even says "Done" in the lower left hand corner like it should.
But it doesn't display. It just stops.

(By the way: when I right-click on a PDF link and say "save target to file"
it works fine, saving the PDF somewhere on my computer to be opened later by
Acrobat. I'm only talking about clicking directly on the link to have
Acrobat open directly.)

This problem didn't happen with Acrobat 4, so I'm thinking it might be an
Acrobat 5 thing.

So a couple of questions:

1) anybody seen this phenomenon and know what to do about it?

2) is there a way to tell IE to use Acrobat Reader instead of Acrobat in
this case? It might solve the problem, and in any case I'd be curious to
know how to tell IE such a thing.

Thanks,

John

Remove Adobe via Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs. Then :

Download Adobe 7.0.5 here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Or, download Adobe 7.0 here and then upgrade to 7.0.5. The option to upgrade
will be available after the installation:
http://www.download.com/3000-2378-10000062.html
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"JMF" <jfavaro@tin.it> wrote in message
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>I have IE 6 and XP Home, with all the latest updates, etc.
>
> I have Acrobat 5 installed.
>
> When I click on a link to a PDF file, it downloads the file just like it
> should, starts Acrobat 5 just like it should, and when everything is all
> set ... it all just stops. Nothing is displayed. It doesn't continue. The
> odd thing is that it doesn't claim that Acrobat is "not responding" or
> that sort of thing. It even says "Done" in the lower left hand corner like
> it should. But it doesn't display. It just stops.
>
> (By the way: when I right-click on a PDF link and say "save target to
> file" it works fine, saving the PDF somewhere on my computer to be opened
> later by Acrobat. I'm only talking about clicking directly on the link to
> have Acrobat open directly.)
>
> This problem didn't happen with Acrobat 4, so I'm thinking it might be an
> Acrobat 5 thing.
>
> So a couple of questions:
>
> 1) anybody seen this phenomenon and know what to do about it?
>
> 2) is there a way to tell IE to use Acrobat Reader instead of Acrobat in
> this case? It might solve the problem, and in any case I'd be curious to
> know how to tell IE such a thing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
>