Failure to obtain a pdf file

I have Adobe reader X running on Windows XP.
Recently I tried to open a file which contained instructions from the Community Sustainable Develooment organisation in the UK. I received only a grey blank screen.
The link is :- http://www.communitysustainable.org.uk/filelibrary/NEW%20Logo%20Docs%20(August%202010)/Gui dance_Notes_v4_new.pdf
Could you advise me what is going wrong and let me havea patch if that is what is needed.
Yours,
G F C
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Michael
Many thanks.  I downloaded with aol which uses Internet Explorer and  got a
blank screen, but was able to download with google.
Yours Geoffrey Cohen

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