Adobe Reader is part of the adobe-acrobat family of applications. Security Adobe Reader is often the target of many security exploits in browsers. It is very important that one keeps their copy of Adobe Reader as up-to-date as possible to attempt to counteract this.
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Open PDF File, extension mandatory
When opening a PDF file from Adobe Reader X I wanted to enter the file name without extension (.pdf) in the name field (+ Enter).
Doing this now, Reader answers "File not found".
I have a setup on ...
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How to disable middle button showing a page thumbnail in Adobe Reader?
Middle click and drag in Adobe Reader scrolls the page, as it does in most Windows applications. However, middle click and release (without dragging) shows a page thumbnail.
Is there any way to ...
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When viewing a PDF in IE with Adobe Reader X, how to zoom to specific percentage?
I have a PDF that can only be viewed in IE with Adobe Reader due to the DRM.
Printing is allowed, but as per the instructions, I need to zoom to a specific percentage to properly print the document ...
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Saving part of a larger fillable pdf file as a smaller fillable pdf file for adobe reader
I have a pdf document that is around 600 pages, but I only need to use about 20 pages total from the document. Is there a way to save those pages that I need into a separate pdf while still keeping ...
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Gibberish when printing PDFs
Sometimes when printing PDFs on my Windows XP with an HP photosmart 2410 printer the text becomes gibberish. It's kind of hard to describe, so I've scanned in an affected page below:
(not very good ...
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Disabling Pop-Up Tool-Tips in Adobe Reader
Is there any way to disable these annoying tool-tips in adobe reader? They come up every time I open a document. I am using Adobe Reader X.
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Disable Save Changes dialoge in Adobe Reader X
Yes, I've read and done the steps listed here with no results:
Disable 'Save changes' dialog in Adobe Reader
Basically what happens is with certain pdf documents, whenever I try to close ...
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How do I open multiple documents in Adobe Reader X in tabbed form?
I have one PDF open and I want to open any other PDF's after that in a tab beside the first PDF. How do I do it? Also, How do I set it as a default function?
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How do I delete a sticky + highlights in Adobe Reader X?
What are the keyboard shortcuts or in-program buttons in Adobe Reader X to delete a sticky note and highlights? When I click on a sticky or around it there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to ...
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adobe pdf reader book marks
Is it possible to organize bookmarks into folders or at least some sort of reasonable organization that makes sense reading pdf books? I am reading technical books and trying to mark it just like you ...
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Adober Reader X Fails to load PDF in Internet Explorer
We have updated our PCs to Adobe Reader X 10.0.1 from the last 9.x version. As a part of our normal business process our users view and consume pdfs from our website through their web browser.
The ...
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Show print dialog using adobe reader command line, without opening reader application
Is there a way to show the print dialog to the user (from a shortcut or something), without opening the rest of the application?
I know there is the /p file.pdf switch that opens the print dialog. ...
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Adobe Reader after closing should remember page
I have here an Adobe Reader X - If im reading an ebook and closing and restart it the reader doesnt remember the page - it always start on page 1. I would like to continue after a restart there where ...
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Adobe reader doesn't print, although all other programs do
Under Windows Vista printing no longer works with the Adobe reader. The network-printer is installed in the system as standard-printer and printing from other applications work. But Adobe Reader ask ...
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Cannot open the preferences dialog in Adobe Reader
I am trying to set the preferences in Adobe Reader. When I try to set preferences from Edit > Preferences, it says "This dialog sets preferences and cannot be shown while another PDF document is ...
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Adobe-reader double-page layout like a book
When setting the Adobe-reader to two-page layout it looks like this:
Title, page 1
page 2, page 3
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But I'd like to view it as if it were printed in a book:
empty, Title
page 1, page 2
page 3, ...
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How do I change my default to adobe reader?
I have Adobe Acrobat 6 and Adobe Reader 9.4 installed.
I have Reader set as the default for viewing downloaded files, but when on the internet (Explorer), it tries to open in Acrobat and it doesn't ...
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Internet Explorer embedded PDF and Adobe X
I am trying to access this page from IE 8 and all I am getting is an grey block. The Adobe Reader version that I use is Adobe X (Version 10.1.2). How do I fix this issue? This works fine in FF and ...
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Password protect adobe acrobat file
I found this video from adobe how to protect your document. I am using latest Adobe Acrobat Reader 9. Note I am trying to put password inside the reader itself. If I go to
File > properties > ...
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How to do exact (diacritic-sensitive) search in Adobe Reader X
Using Adobe Reader X (v. 10.1.2), I tried to search for “Å” (A with ring above), but it keeps finding “A”, “Á”, “”, “Ä” etc., too. Even the full search (Ctrl+Shift+F) apparently lacks a possibility ...
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Why does my Adobe Reader render PDFs so poorly?
I'm using Adobe Reader 9.4.3 on Windows 7. Everything is pretty much as is out of the box. I have not done anything special with fonts or smoothing. In Linux and even Windows/Chrome things look like ...
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Change Adobe Reader's default program for e-mail links
When I click an e-mail address in Adobe Reader X, an Outlook e-mail window opens, even though Thunderbird is my standard e-mail client and assigned to the mailto: protocol.
How can I make Adobe ...
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Adobe DRM Activator error
When I try to open a particular PDF file within Adobe Reader X, it pushes it to open within Adobe Digital Editions.
However the following error is shown. Can someone please help?
pdffilename.pdf:
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Can no longer print in duplex with Adobe Reader X update
Since updating from Reader 9 (which usually let me print in duplex) to Adobe Reader X, I can no longer print in duplex.
I have verified that my settings are correct for the printer, two-sided mode ...
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How to make Adobe Reader 9 open PDF's in new window?
Now when I open two PDF's its opened in the same window and in two tabs. this is very annoying.
how to make it open in different Windows?
P.S. I would like to do it on Windows XP and on Ubuntu.
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Copy paste an image from pdf file while maintaining transparency [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to maintain image transparency when copying from the browser
I have a pdf document and when I try to copy-paste an image from it with the Selection Tool, the ...
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How to open two independent instances of Foxit Reader?
I'm trying to open two PDF files simultaneously, in order to compare their contents, one on the right (Win→) and another on the left (Win←) side of my screen.
Unfortunately I'm trying ...
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PDF rendering of images seems to vary from viewer to viewer with blurring?
I'm generating PDF figures in Adobe Illustrator CS5 that include embedded images. I've noticed that the images look dramatically different when I display the same PDF in Preview, Skim or Adobe Reader ...
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Are malicious PDF documents limited to Adobe Reader? [closed]
Would it make a difference we if use a product such as SumatraPDF or FoxIt?
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Links and Back within PDF
I have a PDF document that has links in various places to figures/tables that are towards the end of the document. Let's say I have a link on page 2 that you click to go to Figure 7. I have the same ...
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Error when copying from a PDF into file name
I look at lots of research papers, usually PDFs. I open them, copy the title from the PDF using Adobe Acrobat Reader, close the file, click the file name and paste the title in. This calls an error. ...
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How to disable Acrobat Reader's “Click-Scroll-Feature”?
The term "click-scroll-feature" is made up by me. I have no idea how this is called.
Some PDF documents have a feature enabled that allows you to scroll through the document by single clicking on the ...
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Display driver crash and restart when viewing PDF in Adobe Reader
I experience occationally (quite often, but not consistent) that the display driver crashes and restarts when I have a PDF open in Adobe Reader (version 9.4.5).
My display is NVIDIA. I also have 2 ...
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Batch detect Adobe Reader version on multiple computers
I want to scan for and build a list of versions of Adobe Reader installed on computers at one site in a domain.
I'm using a demo of Shavlik Netchk (commercial software) which works well, but I'm ...
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Sharepoint 2010 opening non-office documents needs Widows SharePoint Services compatible app
We have documents stored in a SharePoint 2010 site. When people trying to open non-Office documents, like PDFs and JPGs, they get a message "The document could not be opened for editing. A Windows ...
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Adobe Reader download timeout (FTP & HTTP)
The following downloads are timing out on 3 different machines on our network:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.1.0/en_US/AdbeRdr1010_en_US.msi
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Lost the ability to select/highlight text in Adobe Reader 9
I have lost the ability to select/highlight text in Adobe Reader 9 in Win 7 and it's not because of document security settings because I can do it on my Ubuntu side. How can I enable it?
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Can I install Adobe Reader X and still keep Reader 9 also?
I'd like to install Adobe Reader X but for various reasons I'm not quite ready to get rid of Reader 9 yet. Is it possible to install Reader X but avoid the automatic removal of Reader 9 in the ...
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Is there a way to allow continuous scrolling in Adobe Reader?
I am having to read through a MASSIVE (1000+ page) PDF specification in Adobe Reader X (version 10). It has always bugged me that if you scroll to the edge of a page, the Reader automatically jumps ...
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Does Adobe reader have any “fit to print” options?
I have a PDF file that contains a number of long columns. No chance these will fit on an 8.5x11" page, even in landscape, without some wrapping issues.
Excel has a fit to print option whereby the ...
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Internet Explorer 8 error: “The file could not be written to the cache”
I try to download a PDF file using Internet Explorer 8. When I right click and save the file, it comes up with the error:
The file could not be written to the cache.
I have already gone to ...
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How to disable some plugins of adobe-reader X?
There are a lot of plug-ins (I mean not a browser plugin to view pdfs, but plugins of reader itself, e.g. for internet access, commenting a pdf, javascript in pdf, 3d in pdf and so on) pre installed ...
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Delete “Comment” and “Share” buttons from adobe reader X toolbar
Is it possible to delete "Comment" and "Share" buttons from "Adobe Reader X"'s toolbar? My screen is very-small (netbook) and I want to have some useful buttons on it, not the buttons I'll never use.
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Is it possible to add a reload button to Adobe Reader's toolbar?
Current Adobe Reader 9.4.2 allows you to press Ctrl+R to reload an opened PDF. However, there seems to be no way to add that functionality to the toolbar.
Do you know of any custom scripts that would ...
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Check which font types are used in a particular PDF page
I have to check a .pdf document that consists of a large number of pages. I would like to be able to find which font type is used in which place in order to check the consistency across the document.
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What is the meaning of the resolution option of Adobe Reader
In Adobe Reader preferences dialog under Page Display, there is an option "Resolution" with a default value 110 dpi. I tried to change it, from 56 to 400, and found nothing changed except zoom value. ...
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How to open 2 Adobe Reader instances?
I would like to see simultaneously pages in the beginning of the document and at the end. I can do that by opening the same document on different windows. But when I try to do so, the first instance ...
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Adobe Reader renders Times fonts fuzzy [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Why do fonts look messed up in Adobe Acrobat?
The first row are times fonts, rendered by PDF XChange Viewer( or Sumatra, Evince, their rendering are almost the same) and ...
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How to display m by n pages in Adobe Reader 10?
I want to view a PDF document that contains images only. Displaying them in m by n is very convenient to compare one with the others.
Shortly speaking, how to display m by n pages in Adobe Reader 10?
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How do I fix a blank print dialog box?
The Print Dialogue Box opens totally blank or partially blank. It has happened several times with 9 and X after automatic updates. Sometimes the next update has corrected it, sometimes I have ...
