Problem with Acrobat in IE6

[JMF]

I have IE 6 and XP Home, with all the latest updates, etc.

I have Acrobat 5 installed.

When I click on a link to a PDF file, it downloads the file just like it
should, starts Acrobat 5 just like it should, and when everything is all set
.... it all just stops. Nothing is displayed. It doesn't continue. The odd
thing is that it doesn't claim that Acrobat is "not responding" or that sort
of thing. It even says "Done" in the lower left hand corner like it should.
But it doesn't display. It just stops.

(By the way: when I right-click on a PDF link and say "save target to file"
it works fine, saving the PDF somewhere on my computer to be opened later by
Acrobat. I'm only talking about clicking directly on the link to have
Acrobat open directly.)

This problem didn't happen with Acrobat 4, so I'm thinking it might be an
Acrobat 5 thing.

So a couple of questions:

1) anybody seen this phenomenon and know what to do about it?

2) is there a way to tell IE to use Acrobat Reader instead of Acrobat in
this case? It might solve the problem, and in any case I'd be curious to
know how to tell IE such a thing. (That is: have *both* Reader and Acrobat
installed, but somehow tell IE6 "use the Reader instead of Acrobat")

Thanks,

John

 

[RWS]

I have IE 6 and XP Home, with all the latest updates, etc.

I have Acrobat 5 installed.

When I click on a link to a PDF file, it downloads the file just like it
should, starts Acrobat 5 just like it should, and when everything is all set
.... it all just stops. Nothing is displayed. It doesn't continue. The odd
thing is that it doesn't claim that Acrobat is "not responding" or that sort
of thing. It even says "Done" in the lower left hand corner like it should.
But it doesn't display. It just stops.

(By the way: when I right-click on a PDF link and say "save target to file"
it works fine, saving the PDF somewhere on my computer to be opened later by
Acrobat. I'm only talking about clicking directly on the link to have
Acrobat open directly.)

This problem didn't happen with Acrobat 4, so I'm thinking it might be an
Acrobat 5 thing.

So a couple of questions:

1) anybody seen this phenomenon and know what to do about it?

2) is there a way to tell IE to use Acrobat Reader instead of Acrobat in
this case? It might solve the problem, and in any case I'd be curious to
know how to tell IE such a thing. (That is: have *both* Reader and Acrobat
installed, but somehow tell IE6 "use the Reader instead of Acrobat")

Thanks,

John

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