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IE and Acrobat Reader

Jun 11, 2004 4:28AM PDT

When I want to open a pdf on a website IE opens the file in Acrobat reader 3.0 while I have installed AR6.0.

When i download the file and open it it opens in AR6.0

Are there any settings in IE for AR?

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Re: IE and Acrobat Reader
Jun 11, 2004 5:38AM PDT

Is 3.0 installed? Uninstall it? Look in Add/Remove.

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Re: IE and Acrobat Reader
Jun 11, 2004 8:12PM PDT

3.0 is not installed

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Re: IE and Acrobat Reader
Jun 11, 2004 5:56AM PDT
y'all....


If you access File Types (Explorer/My computer, Tools, Folder Options), select Adobe Acrobat Documents, Edit, Open, Edit, does the path point to the later version? Never see Adobe install more than once on a maching myself.

Bill Gaston

Pardon ma ACKsent, ah'm frum Austin, Tex_As, USA

....its been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
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Re: IE and Acrobat Reader
Jun 11, 2004 8:37PM PDT

All AR's point to 6.0

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Re: IE and Acrobat Reader
Jun 11, 2004 11:37PM PDT
Are there any settings in IE for AR?

y'all....

1. Most likely there are other things coming in to play which I wouldn't know about.

2. Internet Explorer may display a blank page with a placeholder icon instead of displaying a Portable Document Format (.pdf) file with Adobe Acrobat Reader. This behavior occurs because the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to the .pdf file does not end in ".pdf" (for example, the file is opened by using script or the file is dynamically generated), and the content-type header (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions [MIME] type) that is returned by the server is "unknown/unknown". Previous versions of IE open Adobe Acrobat Reader as a plug-in but IE6.x does not support Netscape-style plug-ins, which BTW could happen with any unrecognized plun-in, [Q305153] and [Q306790].

Bill Gaston

Pardon ma ACKsent, ah'm frum Austin, Tex_As, USA

....its been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.