Enter key not producing hard returns

Suddenly, my enter key is producing soft returns instead of hard returns. After trying to fix it for hours, I found out that hard returns are produced only with the alt+enter keys. Somehow they are reversed. What can I do?

To enable the enter key one uses shift+return and that gives you a soft return. If you want a hard return just press the return key.

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If your enter key is not working but you have to use it, you can bring up the on screen keyboard, and that will allow you to use enter.
Here is a link to open the on screen keyboard.
Go into device manager and uninstall the keyboard and restart the computer. This should reinstall the driver to correct the problem.
Here is a link to uninstall in device manager.
Let me know if this helps.

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I'm using Adobe Reader 9.3.0.
I have a web application that displays PDFs (using Adobe Reader) in a browser. The PDF is loaded onto the page inside an IFRAME. In addition to the IFRAME containing a PDF, the page also includes several forms, text fields, etc. For the most part this is working fine. However, I have a glitch when using this in Firefox 3.6. I'm finding that certain keyboard events are being lost and I strongly suspect that they are being swallowed by Adobe Reader. When I place focus on an HTML text field and press enter key or arrow keys, I do not get the appropriate key events. If I run the exact same test without the PDF IFRAME these key events work correctly, but as soon as I load the PDF into the IFRAME they do not. I believe the primary key event that gets lost is the keydown event. I do get the keyup event.
Again, the events work correctly up until I load the PDF onto the page.
I've verified that this error does not occur in Firefox 3.5 and 3.0.
Here is a testcase to reproduce this:
<html>
<head>
    <title>JavaScript - Detecting keystrokes</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var pdfURL = 'http://samplepdf.com/sample.pdf';
        window.onload = function () {
            init();
        document.defaultAction = true;
        function init() {
            var x = document.getElementById('testForm').getElementsByTagName('input');
            for (var i=0;i<x.length;i++) {
                x[i].onclick = setEvents;
                if (x[i].checked)
                    x[i].onclick();
            writeroot = document.getElementById('writeroot');
            document.getElementById('emptyWriteroot').onclick = function () {
                writeroot.innerHTML = '';
                return false;
        function setEvents() {
            if (this.id == 'default') {
                document.defaultAction = !this.checked;
                return;
            var eventHandler = (this.checked) ? detectEvent : empty;
            document.getElementById('textfield')['on'+this.id] = eventHandler;
            //document['on'+this.id] = eventHandler;
        function detectEvent(e) {
            var evt = e || window.event;
            writeData('<b>'+evt.type+'</b>: keyCode=' + evt.keyCode+' : charCode=' + evt.charCode);
            return document.defaultAction;
        function empty() {
            // nothing
        var writeroot;
        function writeData(msg) {
            writeroot.innerHTML += msg + '<br />';
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        body {
            font-size: 12px;
        #writeroot {
            height: 300px;
            overflow: auto;
            border: 1px solid #2EB2DC;
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="testForm">
<input type="checkbox" id="keydown" /> <label for="keydown">keydown</label><br />
<input type="checkbox" id="keypress" /> <label for="keypress">keypress</label><br />
<input type="checkbox" id="keyup" /> <label for="keyup">keyup</label><br />
<input type="checkbox" id="default" /> <label for="default">Suppress default action</label><br />
<input type="text" id="textfield" /><br />
<button id="emptyWriteroot">Remove messages</button>
</form>
<a href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('docviewer-page').src=pdfURL;return false">Now load IFrame</a>
<p id="writeroot"></p>
<div id="container2" style="border:1px solid black;width:400px;height:200px">
        <iframe
            id='docviewer-page'
            name='docviewer-page'
            title='document page'
            src='http://www.google.com'
            align='left'
            width='100%'
            height='100%'
            scrolling='auto'
            frameborder=0></iframe>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Paste the above into an HTML document. Open the HTML document in Firefox 3.6. Check the four checkboxes. Move into the text field and press arrow keys and enter key to observe the results when it is working correctly. Then click on the "Now Load PDF" link. Press the arrow keys and enter key again and observe that the behavior has changed.
Anybody have any idea why this is happening or how to work around it?

I found a workaround!
By using an object tag instead of an iframe, all the keys seems to work fine and the PDF still renders in the page the same way.
Here's a page that works:
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<head>
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    <script type="text/javascript">
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            document.getElementById('emptyWriteroot').onclick = function () {
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        body {
            font-size: 12px;
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<input type="checkbox" id="keypress" /> <label for="keypress">keypress</label><br />
<input type="checkbox" id="keyup" /> <label for="keyup">keyup</label><br />
<input type="checkbox" id="default" /> <label for="default">Suppress default action</label><br />
<input type="text" id="textfield" /><br />
<button id="emptyWriteroot">Remove messages</button>
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<p id="writeroot"></p>
<div id="container2" style="border:1px solid black;width:400px;height:200px">
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            name='docviewer-page'
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Fixed.
Changed KB.
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Fixed.
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Indesign 7.5.2
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2. I cannot assign shift-command-return as a Keybaord Command for Forced Line Break. When I try I get the error "conten contains characters which cannot be encoded."

Resetting the preferences doesn't work either. I'll try deleteing the shortcut files now and then resetting. Who knows, I may have to reinstall the ******** package again.
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Keyboard shortcuts from CS4 cannot be migrated to CS5
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jasonwryan wrote:How do you start X?
startx
What DE/WM?
AwesomeWM, quite old setup.
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After "hang" X still works, so I need to kill it (alt+sysrq+re) or reboot.
Xorg.log.0.old
[ 5770.071] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1680x1050"x0.0 119.00 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059 1080 +hsync -vsync (64.7 kHz e)
[ 5770.071] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x60.0 172.80 1920 2040 2248 2576 1080 1081 1084 1118 -hsync +vsync (67.1 kHz e)
[ 5770.110] (II) systemd-logind: got resume for 13:68
[ 5770.110] (II) systemd-logind: got resume for 13:67
[ 5770.126] (II) systemd-logind: got resume for 13:64
[ 5770.156] (II) systemd-logind: got resume for 13:65
[ 5770.209] (II) systemd-logind: got resume for 13:66
[ 5885.135] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 226:0
[ 5885.135] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:68
[ 5885.135] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:67
[ 5885.135] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:64
[ 5885.135] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:65
[ 5885.135] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:66
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[ 5893.481] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[ 5893.481] (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 13:66
[ 5893.481] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to release device: Connection is closed
[ 5893.481] (II) evdev: USB Keyboard: Close
[ 5893.481] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[ 5893.481] (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 13:65
[ 5893.481] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to release device: Connection is closed
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[ 5893.481] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to release device: Connection is closed
[ 5893.481] (II) evdev: Power Button: Close
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[ 5893.560] (WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Input/output error
[ 5893.560] (EE)
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[ 5893.560] (EE) xf86CloseConsole: VT_ACTIVATE failed: Input/output error
[ 5893.560] (EE)
[ 5893.560] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
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[ 5893.560] (EE)
[ 5893.560] (EE)
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[ 5893.613] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/Xorg.bin (xorg_backtrace+0x56) [0x593966]
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[ 5893.614] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f5912809000+0x33df0) [0x7f591283cdf0]
[ 5893.614] (EE)
[ 5893.614] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0
[ 5893.614] (EE)
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[ 5893.614] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[ 5893.614] (EE)
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