It is official: Acrobat is limiting the writing (to disk) of PDF files to 2GB

Please note that there is no limit to CREATE (in memory) larger files but you can't save them to disk.
Therefore, it is because of poor software design. No where is it specified but that limit exist.
I got someone from Adobe to admit that fact and that actually it is specified in internal documentations but they would not release it.
I also verified that through several experiments.

Is this a Win 7 limitation or a limitation with Acrobat X?
It is a limitation of Microsoft Windows.

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Any one knows if this possible ? or not?
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Once they open it on their machine, they have a copy on that machine. They can simply move that copy to where ever they desire, making copies as they go. You can restrict copying content (though not full proof), printing, and changing the document, but not the physical file itself. Be careful with security and the assumption it fixes all your issues. PDF security is not all that secure. If you need higher levels of security, they you have to use the DRM (I think that is it) at a pretty cost.

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I have a user with a Windows 8 Sony Vaio laptop with Microsoft Office 2013 Professional, Acrobat X Standard, and Acrobat Reader installed. Another program on his system requires Acrobat Reader so we cannot just remove that and keep it off the system. Regardless of what he does to set the default program to open PDF files with, when he opens a PDF file it always opens it in Acrobat Reader and not Acrobat itself. We have re-associated it and set the default program handling repeatedly and have also tried complete uninstall and reinstall of both Acrobat and Acrobat Reader which had no effect on this. At this point I am of the opinion that this is a bug and the file association is being overridden somewhere in the registry besides the file association entries. Any help is appreciated.

The only supported way to set the default handler (besides the Wizard and cmd line properties) is via the UI at Edit > Preferences > General > Default PDF Handler. The installer has to be invoked and many registry entries get touched during the switching process.
You should also verify your dot versions of the product support Windows 8: Overview — Acrobat and Adobe Reader Release Notes.
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Recently I have posted up a project so the contractor can read the text in the PDF and create hyperlinks from these text. These PDFs are in format of engineering drawings.
He informed me that he was going to use PHP to read the PDF text as javascript cannot.
He then asked me to convert the version of our current PDF files from v1.6 to a lower version: v1.3, because php cannot work with higher PDF versions.
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I am currently working with Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional.
Thank you,
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I just tested this and it worked fine for me.
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It sounds to me like you're using Reader, not Acrobat. Make sure you open
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It is a high order probability that your SQL's report generator is creating the PDF, not Acrobat (which by design and EULA cannot be used in as/with server).
That the report generator outputs to an old-old version of PDF bears this out.
Wiki articles on PDF are very nice for those high level intro summaries.
To know / understand PDF you purchase and study the ISO Standard for PDF (ISO 32000-1:2008).
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The online conversion of my pdf file to word did not correctly convert the tables and certain other formatting. I wish to obtain a refund.

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How to download the blocked ALV output to PDF file.

How to download the blocked ALV output to PDF file.
I am able to download the BLocked ALV output in PDF format,
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Ravi Yasoda.

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That to me seems like a bug in Yosemite.
Apple Feedback http://www.apple.com/feedback/
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