How do open PDF file with Adobe Reader?

I failed to open PDF file with Adobe Reader? Please show how to fix it.

Mac or Win? OS and Reader versions? Where is the file and how did you try to open it? What happened when you tried? Any error messages? Details, please.

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Firefox added their own proprietary PDF viewer with version 20 - they're on 21 now. I'll be the first to admit "it sucks". You CAN'T fill in PDF forms with it, and you can't email them from the page like with Opera, Safari or Chrome (which use the reader plug-in still).
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This is really strange.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but from what I can understand, any PDF which is launched on your Win 7 OS fails to open, even though the same file works perfectly fine on your Win XP machine?
Could you please run a full system anti virus scan on the said PDFs that are present on your local system. It could be a case of infected PDFs.
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Opening .pdf files with Adobe Reader?

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I am using Windows 7 (64 bit) and was using Adobe Reader 10 X but found I was unable to read my older .pdf files by double-clicking them as the wrong program's icon was linked to them. No problem I thought so I right clicked on a .pdf file and tried using the open with but the 2 programs listed in the default were both wrong and not Adobe Reader plus the 16 alternates underneath, none of which were reader either. No matter I thought so I used browse and sent myself to C:\Program Files (x86)\AdobeReader 9.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe and pressed ok but it still didn't enter the list! Weird.
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Hi Carlos Sota,
In my experience, I suggest that you could set Copy to Output Directory property of the PDF file to “Copy always”.
Below are my code snippet and screenshot.
private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
try
System.Diagnostics.Process process = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
string path = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory+@"/abc.pdf";
Uri pdf = new Uri(path, UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);
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process.WaitForExit();
catch (Exception error)
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Slow to open PDF files in Adobe Reader

Hello,
after upgrading to Mac OS 8.5.3 and 10.9 Maverick'm slow to open PDF files from a Windows 2003 Server share.
In the terminal I get the following errors Print Screen below.
PING to the IP of the share is less than 1 ms.
I'm working with adobe reader for Mac.
How can I fix this?
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