Guest lightnix Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 I recently updated My Adobe PDF reader to Version 6 and have updated twice since then, so that I am now running v6.0.3. The problem is that when I click on a link to a PDF file, I just get a little "picture goes here" type graphic in the top left corner of the screen. I can Right Click / Save Target As... to save the file for offline viewing, but it's getting to be a bit of a pain. Has anyone else had this problem (I'm running IE6. btw) and if so how did you cure it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryson Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Acrobat Reader 7.0 is out...have you tried that? Linkety-link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Console Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Oh! I thought it was just my computer again, (its a 400 MHz you see, a tad old in the tooth, and had a millenium bug problem all those years ago!) I will try Bryson's Link and report. Current version 5.0, IE 6.0.2800.1106 (!) Edit, After all the wait, my OS is not supported, which since I clicked on the 98SE download is a bit poor, but I did say my computer was old! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryson Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 I'm surprised...my acrobat reader seems to just download every update in the universe with impunity, and I have to employ heavy artillery to stop the bloody thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lightnix Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Thanks Bryson, that works great. I cleaned all the old Adobe Readers off my computer, downloaded and installed v.7.0, rebooted and all is well again ;) v.6 didn't seem to last that long - maybe it was bugged :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Off on a tangent here but anyway, is there a free PDF editor (as in something that would let me copy out of PDFs and paste into a word processor) for PC out there? I realise it's very very very very very unlikely as PDF is an Adobe creation but still worth a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSA Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Off on a tangent here but anyway, is there a free PDF editor (as in something that would let me copy out of PDFs and paste into a word processor) for PC out there? I realise it's very very very very very unlikely as PDF is an Adobe creation but still worth a try.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Can't you do that in the reader anyway? Click the 'select' button and highlight, copy, paste into Word or whatever. Or do you mean something else? David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Thanks David, thats what I meant. Has it always been there? I couldn't see it in my old v5.0, but its there in the 7.0 I downloaded yesterday.A classic case of RTFM! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSA Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 I think so. Its certainly in v.6. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo_hippo Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Zaphod,I don't know how you can copy the contents of a PDF (unless you've got illustrator or similar) but for doing the inverse, i.e. creating PDFs there are a host of free apps which let you create PDFs. Most of them add a 'virtual' printer and if you select the printer then 'print to file' option it creates a PDF without the need to own a full version of acrobat. Can't remember the name of the one I used (recent re-format of PC) but type "print to PDF" into google and there lots of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 I use PDF Creator 0.8.0 which installs itself as a Printer Driver, and then will 'print' just about anything to a PDF file. Works pretty well, certainly does the job for me and lighting plans etc. Stu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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