I'm trying to access an application online and it is a .pdf. I have the most current version of Adobe installed and it normally works fine. Until now. The link I am trying to view loads on other systems, just not mine, today.

What can I do to fix this? I really need to view it, and it loads into IE after booting up Adobe. I've restarted my computer, tried loading it into a new window, turned off my pop-up blocker and reloaded, it's just not loading. The status bar says it's loading, then the screen is just blank.

Help :(

Have you tried:

Right-click the link, choose Save Target As...
Save it to a folder
Open Adobe Acrobat
Go to File -> Open
Find the file and open it

I have had this happen before. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL, click processes, click on adacrobat.exe (or something like that, as long as you can see a simliarity to adobe), and click End Process. Repeat for every instance of that program. Then revisit the webpage. It should load.



PS: If you are using Version 5, upgrade to version 6. I havn't had this problem with 6, but I had it with 5 :)

I've had the same problem. Mine seemed to be caused by a window which was supposed to come up and say something like: check website for a more updated version of acrobat? Sometimes it would seem to lag at that point and nothing would happen. Very annoying.

I'll bet save as would work a already suggested.

I'll have to try the updated version myself.

HB Tigger Fan wrote:
I'm trying to access an application online and it is a .pdf. I have the most current version of Adobe installed and it normally works fine.Just to be horribly AR (and possibly save you from a future LART), Adobe (http://www.adobe.com/) is a company and makes many different products (http://www.adobe.com/products/main.html). The name of the particular application you're thinking of is Acrobat (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/main.html). :)

Originally posted by SzczerbiakManiac
Just to be horribly AR (and possibly save you from a future LART), Adobe (http://www.adobe.com/) is a company and makes many different products (http://www.adobe.com/products/main.html). The name of the particular application you're thinking of is Acrobat (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/main.html). :)


I think she's talking about Acrobat Reader ;) :geek:

Originally posted by Bill Catherall
Have you tried:

Right-click the link, choose Save Target As...
Save it to a folder
Open Adobe Acrobat
Go to File -> Open
Find the file and open it

WOOHOO! Thanks Bill!

I have the updated version of Acrobat Reader. I figured it got hung up on the update so I closed and updated manually. Didn't work.

Is there another .pdf reader on the market?

Originally posted by HB Tigger Fan

Is there another .pdf reader on the market?


Not that I know of. Adobe owns the pdf standard, and dosn't licence it out.

Originally posted by HB Tigger Fan
Is there another .pdf reader on the market?

A quick Download.com search (http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=pdf+reader&tg=dl-2001&search=+Go%2521+) shows quite a few convertors and other utility type programs, but I didn't see a basic reader.

DisneyFan25863 wrote:
I think she's talking about Acrobat Reader ;) :geek: Agreed, but there's nothing in her post that specifies Acrobat Reader or Acrobat (Writer). And besides, the page I linked to shows both, so there! :p :D :geek:

Yes, we can't forget Illustrator, and Photoslop. Then there's that toy typesetting program that far too many people actually use for production work, PageFaker.

(For the record, I do my typesetting in Xerox Ventura Publisher, DOS/GEM Edition 3.0. The REAL Ventura, not the ersatz-PageFaker Corel turned it into!)

(Speaking of which, has anybody else noticed the way everything Corel touches turns to bloatware?)

Back to Adobe, I have out-of-date versions of Illustrator and Acrobat, both purchased on eBay, installed on my Mac. I didn't need the features of the more current versions, and I needed the prices and system requirements even less.