Open PDF documents only works on second time

Hallo,
When I want to open a PDF document in a navigation iView the first time only a white browser-page will be opened. When I close the empty window and open the document once again, the acrobat reader displays the document.
We are on NP 7.0 Stack 15 and IE 6.
Any idea?
Regards,
Gerhard

Hello Gerhard,
I think this was a known issue, have a look at the following links:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/328233.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331025.html
There were also some known PDF issues which were fixed in newer versions, see SAP note 1146711 and 700177.
Regards,
Lorcan.

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