Reader toolbars grayed out

I have Reader 9.4 in Mac with Mac OSX. Reader has only menu bar showing. View>Toolbars> shows all toolbars grayed out. What's keeping me from accessing them?

This same problem is posted several times a day, and the answer is always the same: use the offline installers:
Adobe Reader
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Adobe Reader Installer Grayed Out

Hi there,
I've been working on trying to install Adobe Reader XI for the past 3-4 hours to no avail. No matter how many times I reinstall Flash to the latest version, restart my computer, or try installing in a different browser, I inevitably get this screen while trying to use the installer helper (With "Adobe Reader Installer" as the window title instead of "Adobe Flash Player Installer"):
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It's been an incredibly frustrating 3-4 hours, and I really don't know what else to do. I don't understand why this basic plugin is so hard to install. Currently, I'm running Windows 7 Home edition. Any ideas?

This same problem is posted several times a day, and the answer is always the same: use the offline installers:
Adobe Reader
Flash Player for Internet Exporer - ActiveX
Flash Player for Firefox - NPAPI

"Remove previous versions of Reader" is muted out?

Remove previous versions of Reader is grayed out and I need to do a rolback on a lot of machines, to many to do manually.
The last time I needed to perform a rollback was in v.9 and it was fine.
What am I missing here?
Better ways to perform a rollback? Standard scripting solutions have not panned out via SCCM. Thank you.

I dont think that you would be able to achieve the same with the customization wizard.
Can you let me know how exactly is it that you deploy the updates to the systems? Is it via a GPO policy or is it via SCCM/SCUP model? I would be able to suggest you a few options based on the same.

When I click on a result of a Google search and then go that web site, the Back button on the toolbar is grayed out and I cannot return to the search results.

When using FF3.6 and making a Google search, when I click on a result and then go that web site, the Back button on the toolbar is grayed out and I cannot return to the search results without going to History. This does not happen all the time; about 1/2 of the time.
This problem is not limited to Google, but occurs with other sites as well.

If you are talking about searches from - http://www.google.com/ - are you logged into a Google account all the time? If so, check your "Search Settings" from the "gear" in the upper-right corner of that Google search page and see if you have '''Open search results in a new browser window.''' check-marked, at the bottom of that preferences page. When that is check-marked and you have Tab options in Firefox set to '''Open new windows in a new tab instead''', you will get search results always opening in a new tab instead of the same tab. As to why that works different for "sponsored links" I don't know, I haven't seen the "sponsored links" for years now, I have a GM script that blocks those advertisements.

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We are using Acrobat Standard 8 and IE7. We are experiencing an issue with the PDF toolbar in IE7. Sometimes the toolbar is grayed out and at other times it is not. This seems to happen randomly.
During a recent training class, all participants visited the same site in order to convert the web pages to PDF. Some users were able to use the PDF Toolbar to convert the web page, while others could not. Those who could not convert the web pages had the PDF toolbar, but the icon was grayed out.
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I was having the same issue with Internet Explorer 7 and finally solved it by going to Tools - Manage Add-ons - Enable or Disable Add-ons. I then enabled all add-ons related to Adobe Acrobat. It worked for me, give it a try!

Why are my header icons and toolbar buttons grayed out?

I purchased a used Macbook Pro from ebay. Appeared to be in good working order when I first started working with it, but I have updated from OS X 10.9.2 to 10.9.5 and downloaded Open Office program, set up my mail and went through the system preferences and personalized it. Also ran disk utilities. Then, this AM, when I restarted, the header icons on the right side are grayed out except for the battery %, the date and time and notifications. Also, in mail and safari, the toolbar buttons are blank (forward, back, print, mail, bookmarks, autofil, history and downloads). What happened? I went to the disk utility from the recovery partition (repaired disk and disk permissions). I also reset parameters. Don't know what to do next. Not sure if this is a hardware or software problem, but I am assuming it is software (OS X) related at this point. Please help.

Start up in Safe Mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14204?viewlocale=en_US
Giving away / Selling your Mac / Resetting the computer to the factory condition
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5189
http://www.thesafemac.com/how-to-prepare-your-mac-for-sale/

How to remove bit Defender Anti-Phishing Toolbar 2.0, tools grayed out.

I have tried to remove Bit Defender Anti=Phishing Toolbar 2.0 from the Tools menu but the removal button is grayed out. Is there a way to remove it manually? I no longer use Bit Defender, it is removed from my computer. I am using Firefox 3.6.11. I am using Windows XP Home Edition.

Do you still have a BitDefender directory in program folders, usual location is C:\Program Files\BitDefender\
If the directory still exists, the uninstall did not complete fully. BitDefender recommend downloading the uninstaller and running it again. You can get the uninstaller from http://www.bitdefender.com/uninstall
If that does not work, you can try manually removing the toolbar. Do you have a folder called C:\Program Files\BitDefender\BitDefender 2009\FFToolbar
The "BitDefender 2009" part will vary depending on the version of BitDefender installed. If that still exists try deleting the contents of the FFToolbar folder.
BitDefender is likely to have added an entry to the Windows Registry, if you are happy with editing the registry you can remove the entry, for details see the "Windows registry extension" section of http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_add-ons
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File Save As Other Reader Extended PDF Enable Commenting & Measuring GRAYED OUT

I have an PDF form created in Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 10.0.
When I open in Reader, All the "Sign" options are grayed out.
Under "Properties" Signing is allowed but Commenting is not.
From all I have seen, I hope that allowing Commenting will allow me to use the sign features.
The only solution I'm finding on the internet is below:
File > Save As Other > Reader Extended PDF > Enable Commenting & Measuring
It is grayed out in my (latest version of) Acrobat pro.
**Is there a way to make this option available?**
**Will this even solve my problem?**
**Is it possible that it is impossible to use these features on this document?**
At this point, I've spent about two and a half hours on this issue and haven't been able to find a solution. Very frustrated.
Thanks.

Thanks. I'm not an IT person and needed that lead.
In the end, I just printed to Adobe PDF and then was able to use the commenting options (once I had flattened it). For those who might come across this - this is one of the only ways to flatten a XFA PDF.

Save-As-Reader Extended pdf options grayed out

I need to enable my end users of my form to save it once the data is entered, and the options for Reader extended pdf are all grayed out. I am in preview mode. What am I doing wrong?

Get out of form editing mode and it will become available.

My typewriter toolbar is graying out the ability to change font size, type, and color.

My typewriter toolbar is graying out the ability to change font size, type, and color.

Here's what I have done in the past. Maybe not elegant, but
it works. (I
use PHP, but I'm sure you can modify for ASP.)
In the HEAD of each web page, include regular old embedded
STYLE tags,
but INCLUDE an external PHP file:
<head>
<style type="text/css">
<?php include('styles/testcss.php'); ?>
</style>
</head>
Now in that included PHP file, just have CSS code which pulls
in your
dynamic data. Here's an example snippet:
body {
color: #600;
background-color: <?php echo
$row_recordset['bgcolor'];?>
Of course, you'll need the code for the recordset somewhere
too.
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Abode Reader X Save Icon is grayed out.

I have a Lenovo x220 running Windows 7 and when I open a pdf in Adobe Reader X, it won't let me just "save". I can "save as" but I can not just save. The icon for saving is also grayed out. When I hit Ctrl + S, nothing happens. It will save under "save as" just fine though.

What I've been doing is using the keyboard command Ctrl+Shift+S, which brings up the Save As... dialog box.
Like thinksink, I receive PDFs by email. I scan documents using our printer/scanner/fax machine, and it sends the documents to my email account as PDF files. By default, the documents are named "scan.pdf", and it is inconvenient to type in a different document title before sending. So, when scan.pdf arrives in my inbox, I open the file to ensure that the document has scanned correctly, and if it has, I save it to the appropriate folder on my drive.
In Reader 9, I could click the Save... button (which was NOT greyed out), and the Save As... dialog box would open. I think the first time I did that, I was shown a warning that changes to the document could not be saved and if I wanted to save it, I would have to save it to a file with a different name. Since this is exactly what I intended to do, everything worked great. And, I didn't have to see the warning every time because there was a "Don't show me this again" check box.
Another related annoying change from Reader 9 is that Reader X doesn't remember what folder I saved the last document to. In the Save As... dialog box, the saving process for each document always starts in the temporary folder that Outlook stores attachments in, and I have to work my way through the directory tree to save each file. This occurs even when I leave the application running and just close the last document.

I am trying to import my bookmarks from IE and have read the instructions of how to do this, but the Import button under File is grayed out and will not let me import. Any ideas?

I am trying to import my bookmarks from IE and have read the instructions, but the Import button under File is grayed out and will not let me import. Any ideas?

* Make sure that you not run Firefox in [[Private Browsing]] mode
* In Private Browsing mode some menu items are disabled (grayed) and features like visited links are disabled and not showing
* You are in Private Browsing mode if you see "Tools > Stop Private Browsing", possibly grayed
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Reader x printing issue with grayed out collate

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When is the new service pack/ fix available?

I have checked all of the typical page setting and I am still having the
same problem. I first started having the problem with my network printer when I upgraded to a Windows
7 (64 bit) but was using Reader 9. I upgraded the Reader hoping to eliminate the problem.
There are also times when the pdf won't print at all and I get an error message OFFENDING COMMAND: pscript_WinNT_compa.
I print a lot of pdfs so this is very frustrating.

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I can’t open grayed out Toolbar in Preview (6.0.1). I have done the following: trashed the com.apple.finder.plist file, repaired permissions, relaunched finder, logged out and logged in. Any other suggestions?

To activate the toolbar items a document must be open in Preview. Don't you have this under the File menu?
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