Adobe reader wont open.pdf files

trying to open .pdf files with latest version of abobe reader, but just get a blank Adobe reader screen and then the programme quits?

Operating system? Reader version? Local or online files?

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Can't dowload Adobe Reader or open PDF files

Cant' download Adobe Reader or open existing PDF files with Windows 7 and Explorer 9. Have suspended firewall, but still nothing happens.

Can't download HOW?
There's an alternate download page here http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/

WHY WILL ADOBE READER NOT OPEN PDF FILES?

I have just downloaded free Adobe Reader X. When I try to open a pdf file I immediately get a Microsfoft box saying "Adobe Reader has encountered a problem and needs to close" I have Windows XP. Has anyone else experienced the problem and what did you do to fix the problem so pdf files open? Setting in control panel is for al pdf's to be opened by Adobe Reader, and when I downloade, I briefly disabled my anti-virus software. Really frustrating, Can any one help?

We saw the same symptoms as you describe.
It turned out that the new sandbox feature in Reader X is not compatible with Re-Directed "Application Data" folders.
Disabling the sandbox safety feature (via a special registry setting) appears to be a workaround, but somehow we now feel less safe.
Folder redirection involves group policy as used in large corporations with IT teams to manage large numbers of PCs in companies.
For example, in corporate environments, users My Documents and AppData folders are often re-directed at a secure server share, so that people's documents/photos/mp3s they save into my documents are secured on a server, instead of scattered about on various PCs. Home users never use this technology.
However, If you've got Adobe Reader X installed to a different DRIVE to the one where your APPDATA folder is, then you might get the same effect.
I guess this could also happen to peole with Windows installed on their D: drives, and Adobe installed on the C: drive, or similar.

Using adobe reader to open PDF files.

I downloaded, and had to delete and try again, adobe reader. I couldn't open the PDF files I wanted to. What did I do wrong? I tried this 3 times. One sight I needed to download and print allowed me to go to my applications open Adobe Reader and download it then to my computer. However, then I had to securely trash it as it wasn't something I wanted to keep on my computer being a finance page. Another company I tried to do it that way after it said it coudn't read it, and it didn't work. I never had this trouble before until I downloaded this new adobe reader. What did I do wrong?

Thank you for the reply. Answer to your operating system I have is: Mac OSX Version 10.7.5
I did download and install Adobe Reader XI 11.0.0
This is a different version that I first had, and I don't know where the first version went.
This all started when our internet provider had problems that went to all areas. I might have been working on something when I lost my original...now sure.
When I tried to download a bank statement (and I tried to different banks using Firefox and Safari) I get the message:
"Adobe Reader Cannot Show Documents in this browser.
We are sorry, but Adobe Reader is unable to show documents in this browser configuration. Please use your browser to download this file and open it in Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat. To avoid this message in the future, many browsers provide a way to turn off add-ons, and some are able to show this document, natively. Please contact your browser vender for more details."
I don't know what they mean by "natively."
Then I get a gray screen that said adobe plug-inn had crashed so I could report it so I did. Nothing happened with that.
Next, I checked to see that my add-ons were turned off and they were, but then I saw the plug-in section and ran it to see if my plug-in's were up-to-date. All were except when I came to Adobe Acrobat NPAPI Pug-in, Version 11.0.11. Under it was a notice: Notice Adobe recommend Acrobat Reader 9.3. So I clicked on that and it brought me back to the screen to download Adobe Reader XI 11.0.0. This seems to have brought me back to the beginning of the circle.
? I definitely am stumped. I guess I'm going to try to internet to see if I can get to Acrobat Reader 9.3.
Thank you. Eilsher

How do I tell Adobe reader to open a file instead of being prompted to save the file?

how do I tell Adobe reader to open a file instead of being prompted to save the file?

Go to Tools - Options - Applications and enter "pdf" into the filter field. Select the action that you want to associate with PDF files.
In your case select one of the "Use Adobe Acrobat" actions.

How do I disable Adobe Reader from opening pdfs?

how do I disable Adobe Reader from opening pdfs in Safari? I tried unchecking the box for opening pdfs in browser under Adobe's Internet prefs, but that didn't seem to work.

Hello-
I actually saw a solution to this earlier today. To disable PDF viewing in safari, first quit safari, then open terminal, and type in this command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES
To re-enable PDF viewing in safari simply open the terminal, and change the "YES" in the command above to a "NO"
Hope this helps.
You may also find this link interesting:
http://www.macworld.com/2005/10/features/safarisecrets/index.php?lsrc=mwtoprss
Kevin

Adobe Reader cannot open pdf created by Firefox; "file is damaged"

Firefox 4.0.1 on Mac Pro Intel using OS 10.5.8 will allow you to save a web page as pdf, using "Print" then "Save as PDF". If you do this you will save a file. If you attempt to open that file with Adobe Reader you get an error message that the file is damaged. Safari does not have this problem. Microsoft Explorer does not have this problem. It is unlikely that this is an OS problem. Adobe Reader is listed as the app to open pdf files. Is there a fix?

1. I assume you have some PDF documents you have been keeping a long time. Look at their modification date. Is it what you'd expect (years ago) or is it all the same, recent?
2. Has a TXT file appeared in the same folder as the PDFs?

How do I stop Adobe trying to open pdf files?

I have removed Adobe from my Mac, but it is still trying to open pdf files, both in Safari and in Mail. I've removed all of the files using CleanMyMac, so there is nothing left of it.
How can I change the default back to Evernote, or just view pdf in Safari?

Unfortunately, I can't do that as the file I want is coming up with this message: "Please wait...if this message is not replaced by the proper contents of the document, your pdf viewer may not be able to display this type of document.
You can upgrade or get the latest version of Adobe Reader...etc etc"
I'm also getting this on my Windows XP Computer even when I have Reader installed.
I have already deleted all internet plug ins relating to Adobe in my Library.

How do I prevent adobe reader from opening a file after it's saved from chrome adobe reader?

Whenever I save a file from the chrome adobe reader, it opens automatically in adobe reader which is incredibly annoying. Please help!

Ahh, but that's the design function of any PDF viewer add-on to a browser.
To avoid -- Use the browser feature that saves a file to the local machine.
Then open the file with the appropriate application.
If your machine/device does not support this then you'd want to change to one that supports what you want eh.
Be well...

Safari wont open .pdf files. Is here a setting that interferes?

On my iPad using safari, and, with firefox on my iMac, I con open .pdf files on our club web page. However with Safari I only get a black blank when I try to open them on my iMac with Safari. FireFox works fine . Could there be a setting on Safari that is not allowing pdf files to open?
Here is the web page link. http://www.lhmac.org/lhmacnewsletters.htm
the same pdf files when e- mailed to me open fine on my iMac.

Hi Gregory ..
Go to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins
Move the Adobe PDF Browser plugin (or just PDF Browser plugin) to the Trash.
Quit then relaunch Safari to test.

Problems with opening Adobe Reader 9 or pdf files

Hi,
Can someone please help me resolve this problem? I had no problem using Adobe Reader 8 but since removing Adobe Reader 8 and download the updated Adobe Reader 9, I cannot open any pdf files or the Adobe Reader 9 (on desktop) without receiving the following error message:
"Adobe Reader 9.3 has encountered a problem and needs to close". I tried several times to download and reinstall Adobe Reader 9 without any success. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
Regards,
Choichai

Hi,
where can I download Adobe Reader 8 (Mac)?
Jan
Op 20 sep 2010, om 09:26 heeft Choichai het volgende geschreven:
Hi Michael,
Thanks for coming back to me. Remember when I've received the error message previously "Error 1327. Invalid Drive: E:\", I've decided to try inserting my flash drive into the E drive (since I've downloaded the Adobe file previously from my flash drive to my desktop pc) and then try removing the Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and it works!!!! I am now working with the earlier version ie. Adobe Reader 8 which works fine. I would like to try again to download the Adobe 9.3.4 but have previously tried 3 times and failed. What else can I try to do to download, install and run this latest version without experiencing the same problem over again? Thanks.
Regards,
Choichai
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How can you disable Adobe Reader from opening a file right after you save it as a pdf?

Hi,
I often save word files as pdf files and right after I save them as pdfs it opens the file in adobe reader. How can I disable this?
Thanks

Ahh, but that's the design function of any PDF viewer add-on to a browser.
To avoid -- Use the browser feature that saves a file to the local machine.
Then open the file with the appropriate application.
If your machine/device does not support this then you'd want to change to one that supports what you want eh.
Be well...

Adobe reader wont allow pdf to save as doc

I have windows 8 and Adobe Reader. I don't use the touchscreen as it allows because my laptop is not touchscreen capable. I have been trying for 2 hours to convert a PDF. file to a DOC. so that I can fill out the form in Microsoft Word. When I pull up the PDF in Adobe, I click the "save as" option and it takes me to the save section. The only options I have in the save screen is where I want to save the file, the description (file name), File type, which the only option is PDF. No other file type is available; and finally, the save option. I am desperately trying to change the file type to a DOC and have hit a dead end. I have tried changing it by renaming and adding (doc.) at the end to change the format, tried opening word and attempting to open the file that way but the characters are wrong, it looks like a bunch of jumbled characters instead of the PDF, and finally, opened "reader" and attempted to copy/paste in word with the same results as adobe, and the save as function wont let me change it to a doc as well. I'm totally stuck and I need to change this PDF to a Word Document but I'm having the worst time doing this! Does anyone know a way to change a PDF file to a document some other way than trying to pull it up in Word, changing it in Adobe or trying to rename the file? I desperately need help!

The free Reader has never been able to convert PDF files to any other format, and most probably never will. You can try using the free 30 day trial of Acrobat to attempt a conversion. And if I may say so, if someone created a form in PDF format, and expects it to be filled and submitted in PDF format, I don't think s/he will be happy receiving it in Word format.

Adobe will not open PDF files from other programs

This is on one of the computers in our office. We use a medical records program called Sevocity. This program stores documents that we import into the electronic charts as PDF files. When we upgraded that computer from Adobe to Adobe Pro, it no longer opened the PDF documents stored there. Is this an issue with the medical program or with Adobe Pro? We already had Sevocity Support attempt to fix the problem, but they said the issue looked like it was with Adobe.
We would like to troubleshoot by re-installing AdobePro, but we want to make sure that none of our files stored to the Adobe Document Cloud. If we re-install Adobe, will those documents still be available in the online Adobe account's Document Cloud, or do we need to move those documents to the collective Creative Cloud?

Yeah, it does open from other sources like "My Documents", but sometimes it won't open the print previews in our billing system either. Communication error with secure sites and programs, maybe? I don't get an error message, though. It just displays the "processing" symbol next to the mouse for a second or two like it does when PDF's usually open, and then nothing happens. We are using Windows 7 on that computer. The other computer that runs on Windows 7 also has Adobe Pro XI, but does not experience these problems. I have also put in a ticket with Sevocity (the program that is not communicating with Adobe).
And that's a relief about the Document Cloud! We will try to re-install just in case it was something that went wrong with the initial install.

Adobe Reader not opening PDF Portfolio - Flash player error

I have Acrobat 9 Standard installed on my PC and I created a PDF Portfolio. Acrobat Standard can open that Portfolio just fine.
I also have Acrobat Reader installed (11.0.2).and have Adobe Flash Player (11.7.700.169) installed. Both Reader and Flash Player work fine independently on PDF or Flash content.
However when I try to open the PDF portfolio with Reader, I get the following Error:
:"To view the Flash technology in this FDF file; please install this version of Flash player that supports Adobe reader and Acrobat".
The Dialog box with the message above has a [Proceed to download page] button (which does nothing but bring up Reader with a black page), a [Learn more] button (similar behavior), and a [Cancel] button. Both Reader and Flash are the latest versions as of today (4/16/2013).
Any help or insight with this is appreciated.
Thanks !
Bruce Dana.

Thank you. What you suggested di the trick !
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