can't open PDF files in IE6.

[ian billing]

Hello, XP user here. I just updated to SP2 hoping it would solve my
long standing inability to view web pages that display Acrobat PDF
content but no luck. Under SP1 I would click on a link which had PDF
content and it would show me a blank page with a tiny square icon in
the upper left hand corner. Under SP2 I just get a blank page. I spent
a week enabling 3rd party extensions, trying different settings in
Acrobat from versions 3 - current. Many different settings in
IE6.0.29.
Any ideas? Thank you.

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
See if anything at these sites helps:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/pdf.htm
http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/files.htm

Don
[MS MVP- IE/OE]

 

[Don Taylor]

Hello, XP user here. I just updated to SP2 hoping it would solve my
long standing inability to view web pages that display Acrobat PDF
content but no luck. Under SP1 I would click on a link which had PDF
content and it would show me a blank page with a tiny square icon in
the upper left hand corner. Under SP2 I just get a blank page. I spent
a week enabling 3rd party extensions, trying different settings in
Acrobat from versions 3 - current. Many different settings in
IE6.0.29.
Any ideas? Thank you.

I can't promise that this is your problem but something I have seen
is that the Acrobat reader will start up... and then there is the
multi-minute wait while megabytes or tens of megabytes of pdf file
are leaked across the net to you, and I haven't found any little
utility that will show any progress is being made while that is
going on. While this is happening it can really look like your
computer has simply locked up and died, program isn't responding,
etc. Late one night I clicked on something, from Dell, I think and
only much later did I realize that a hundred megabytes was moving
across the net at a speed slower than evolution.

So, can you eliminate this as a possible problem in your case,
perhaps by watching to see how fast data is moving across the net
to you?