Why am I unable to save unsecured PDFs

I have Acrobat 9 on a new Vista PC. All of a sudden I am having difficulty saving downloaded PDF documents, even tho they are not secured (i.e. Properties/Security shows everything Allowed including copying). Am even in email correspondence with one of the PDF's publishers who can't reproduce my problem - i.e. he also thinks that I should be able to save a download of his PDF document !
Neither clicking the save icon in the Acrobat toolbar nor picking File/Save As in the Explorer toolbar brings up the usual save dialogue box.
The strange thing is that the difficulty seems to arise on only some sites/downloads, not all.
Does anyone have any technical insights into this issue? Anything to do with Vista security or McAfee, perhaps?
With thanks for any assistance!!
David
London

Hi David,
The suggestion you made did the trick. Can download web pdfs again.
Looking forward to more solutions.
Louis
2009/10/11 DavidJacquesA <[email protected]>
Hi Louis,
>
I found a decent guy at Adobe who is looking into the matter for me, in
case there are other lurking issues. Meanwhile he suggested an Adobe Acrobat
9.1 workaround that does seem to solve the problem in the short term. Try it
- if it's available in Reader - and good luck!
>
David
>
EXTRACT FROM ADOBE MESSAGE:
>
>
I'm sorry to hear you are still having problems with Acrobat. I am going to
run a couple of tests with a Vista image here to see if I get the same
issue.
>
In the mean time, in Acrobat, you would probably benefit from not
displaying the PDF in browser:
menu Edit > Preferences : Internet : uncheck "Display PDF in browser" This
should in theory allow you to save the PDF using Acrobat's own menus.
>
Another option is to right click a link that points to a PDF and use Save
Target As...
>
>
END OF EXTRACT FROM ADOBE MESSAGE
>
David Abrahams
Brand Mediation
London
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+44 (0)7771 601 652
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