I cannot view PDF Files on my computer 1

[ChristaC]

When I go to a website that has PDF Spec sheets I cannot view them. When I click on them I get a blank page with a small icon in the upper left corner. I do have adobe acrobat. I figure it is a check box in my computer settings that is unchecked or something, nothing serious but very annoying.

Please Help!

 

[dhwilliams]

Un-install Acrobat Reader, download the latest version (for your operating system) and install it.

That should sort it!

Dave

 

[DickRussell]

Even though you have the Reader on your system, if may not be the designated program for opening files of type .PDF (Adobe .PDF files). You can check this by clicking:
Start/Settings/Control Panenl/Folder Options and selecting tab File Types. That lets you see what programs are associated with various file types. Scroll down to file type .PDF, click it, and see what is associated with it.

 

[Aakhrinaam]

In Acrobat 5.xx and 6.xx when you start up Acrobat , a dialog box will pop up asking you to enable Acrobat for Web browsing.

 

[Aakhrinaam]

In Adobe Reader 6.0 it is under Edit->preferences->internet

 

[Melko]

Disable it, it is far better downloading the .pdf and seeing them later with the reader.

A good thing could be also use Ghostscript related programs to convert .pdf in other format like .html