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I can't get any of the .pdf files on a newsgroup I use to download
properly. Adobe opens and all I get is a blank screen except for an icon in
top LH corner.
If I download and save the file to disc, and open it from there Adobe works
fine!

Any ideas as to what is going on?


Roger C

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:36:52 -0000, "Roger Curtis"
<kath-> wrote:

>If I download and save the file to disc, and open it from there Adobe works
>fine!

That is the proper way to download files from Usenet. You have to
download the files and save them to disk to execute or load them into
a program. Outlook has a built in handling for pictures, but not for
PDF's.


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Best Regards, Keith
http://kilowatt-radio.org/ NW Oregon Radio Page

Keith wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:36:52 -0000, "Roger Curtis"
> <kath-> wrote:
>
>> If I download and save the file to disc, and open it from there
>> Adobe works fine!
>
> That is the proper way to download files from Usenet. You have to
> download the files and save them to disk to execute or load them into
> a program.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!

Change your ****ing mail address to microwattmind@...

"Roger Curtis" <kath-> wrote in message
news:csiea9$8rq$...
>I can't get any of the .pdf files on a newsgroup I use to download
>properly. Adobe opens and all I get is a blank screen except for an icon in
>top LH corner.
> If I download and save the file to disc, and open it from there Adobe
> works fine!
>
> Any ideas as to what is going on?
>
>
> Roger C

Taking out all the files in the Readers Plugins folder made it work for me,
have since upgraded to Reader 7 and it seems to work ok now.

Paul.

"Chuck" <> wrote in message news:. ..
> Keith wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:36:52 -0000, "Roger Curtis"
> > <kath-> wrote:
> >
> >> If I download and save the file to disc, and open it from there
> >> Adobe works fine!
> >
> > That is the proper way to download files from Usenet. You
> > have to download the files and save them to disk to execute
> > or load them into a program.
>
> BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!
>
> Change your ****ing mail address to microwattmind@...
>
He probably means you should always have ActiveX controls
disabled in the Internet Zone, so .pdf files won't work directly.