Issue displaying new PDF's.

We have a user on who was recently upgraded to Adobe Reader 11.0.09 who cannot get new pdf's to display on her screen. We have un-installed and re-installed the program with no luck. Have verified the items she was trying to open will open on another computer with 11.0.09 installed. Would screen resolution settings possibly be a cause for this? The user does have the screen settings so things are rather large.

Don't know the answer but it happened to me when I got XI. I have to go to direct it to OPEN AS A PDF file. On some apps I can't open it but can select preview and it will open.

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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h"%>
<%@ taglib uri='http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core' prefix='c'%>
<f:loadBundle basename="messages" var="msg" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<LINK rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../theme/Styles.css"
     title="Style">
</HEAD>
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0">
<f:view>
     <h:form id="CaseLookUp">
          <h:dataTable value="#{pc_ImageDisplay.dataModel}" var="var">
               <h:column id="one">
                    <f:facet name="header">
                         <h:outputText value="H1" id="HOne"/>
                    </f:facet>
                    <h:outputText value="#{var.caseID}" id="IDONE"/>
               </h:column>
               <h:column id="two">
                    <f:facet name="header">
                         <h:outputText value="H2" id="HTwo"/>
                    </f:facet>
                    <h:graphicImage value="imageServlet?file=#{var.PODocPath}" id="image"/>
               </h:column>
          </h:dataTable>
     </h:form>
</f:view>
</body>
</HTML>The image servlet is what i got from balusc's site (http://balusc.blogspot.com/2007/04/imageservlet.html).
I dont know why my servlet is not getting called. Can someone help me with this pls?
okay let me post the modified code for my image servlet here
public class ImageServlet extends HttpServlet {
     private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
     public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
        // Define base path somehow. You can define it as init-param of the servlet.
//        String imageFilePath = "/images";
        // In a Windows environment with the Applicationserver running on the
        // c: volume, the above path is exactly the same as "c:\images".
        // In UNIX, it is just straightforward "/images".
        // If you have stored images in the WebContent of a WAR, for example in the
        // "/WEB-INF/images" folder, then you can retrieve the absolute path by:
        // String imageFilePath = getServletContext().getRealPath("/WEB-INF/images");
        // Get file name from request.
        String imageFileName = request.getParameter("file");
        System.out.println("Inside the image servlet ---->>>> " + imageFileName);
        // Check if file name is supplied to the request.
//        if (imageFileName != null) {
//            // Strip "../" and "..\" (avoid directory sniffing by hackers!).
//            imageFileName = imageFileName.replaceAll("\\.+(\\\\|/)", "");
//        } else {
//            // Do your thing if the file name is not supplied to the request.
//            // Throw an exception, or show default/warning image, or just ignore it.
//            return;
        // Prepare file object.
        File imageFile = new File(imageFileName);
        // Check if file actually exists in filesystem.
        if (!imageFile.exists()) {
            // Do your thing if the file appears to be non-existing.
            // Throw an exception, or show default/warning image, or just ignore it.
            return;
        // Get content type by filename.
        String contentType = URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromName(imageFileName);
        // Check if file is actually an image (avoid download of other files by hackers!).
        // For all content types, see: http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_mimeref.asp
        if (contentType == null || !contentType.startsWith("image")) {
            // Do your thing if the file appears not being a real image.
            // Throw an exception, or show default/warning image, or just ignore it.
            return;
        // Prepare streams.
        BufferedInputStream input = null;
        BufferedOutputStream output = null;
        try {
            // Open image file.
            input = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(imageFile));
            int contentLength = input.available();
            // Init servlet response.
            response.reset();
            response.setContentLength(contentLength);
            response.setContentType(contentType);
            response.setHeader(
                "Content-disposition", "inline; filename=\"" + imageFileName + "\"");
            output = new BufferedOutputStream(response.getOutputStream());
            // Write file contents to response.
            while (contentLength-- > 0) {
                output.write(input.read());
            // Finalize task.
            output.flush();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // Something went wrong?
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            // Gently close streams.
            if (input != null) {
                try {
                    input.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                    // This is a serious error. Do more than just printing a trace.
            if (output != null) {
                try {
                    output.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                    // This is a serious error. Do more than just printing a trace.
    }

Thanks Balusc!!
I have made use of your code to display PDF files in an IFRAME tag too!!! I just dint believe that this would be possible. Please just take a look at my JSP page.
<h:form id="CaseLookUp">
     <%
     String path = request.getContextPath()+"";
     out.print(path);
     %>
<iframe scrolling="auto" src="<%=path%>/imageServlet?file=D:\70-229 V5.pdf" width="80%" height="600" ></iframe>
     </h:form>

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