my laptop runs Windows Vista, and i have Adobe Reader version 7. however i'm unable to open pdf files. i get a message saying there is an incompatability problem with vista and adobe 7, and it crashes the page.
so i went to update adobe to the latest version 9, and downloaded, but at 92% downloaded it stopped downloading:confused: (cant remember the message).:confused:. so i then rebooted the computer and started over again, and when I went to download again, got a message saying the download was already complete.:confused::confused:. then i went into "programmes", and it looks like i still only have version 7.
I heard recently that there is a really good pdf reader that doesn't have the massive overheads of adobe acrobat.......can't remember what it was called [][] Of course there's no guarantee that it would work with Vista either [}]
Stop the bus!!!! I have just told you a porky about creating PDF. I had a scoot around Adobe (yuck) and found that 9 does not support Photshop in Vista Home Basic for example. Perhaps Grant if he has time can look in the Tech Support part and help more. If it can't support one component then what else is a problem? Are you sure it wasn't sucessful and it is actually what they refer to on the site as 7.1.9 as opposed to 7.1.8 for Adobe Reader 8. I bow out now as out of my depth.
DiDi;185141 wrote: Stop the bus!!!! I have just told you a porky about creating PDF. I had a scoot around Adobe (yuck) and found that 9 does not support Photshop in Vista Home Basic for example. Perhaps Grant if he has time can look in the Tech Support part and help more. If it can't support one component then what else is a problem?
I think we are talking at cross purposes here DiDi :confused:
- Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Reader are 2 very different things
I just checked Adobe's web site for the details on Adobe Acrobat Reader:
Select a version of Adobe Reader for Windows Vista, English:
Latest version
Adobe Reader 9
(includes Acrobat.com on Adobe AIR)
firstly i uninstalled adobe 7, plus some other acrobat stuff installed today wasnt reader tho:confused::confused:.... then i installed adobe reader 9 (but read about it first to make sure it would be suitable....grant i couldnt see a download for 8, only for 9.)
anyway it has downloaded and to check all was ok, i tried to view a pdf on an email attachment (one of the ones i couldnt previously open), and all is working well.
Kate;185130 wrote: I heard recently that there is a really good pdf reader that doesn't have the massive overheads of adobe acrobat.......can't remember what it was called [][] Of course there's no guarantee that it would work with Vista either [}]
That would be Foxit - www.foxitsoftware.com
. Yep, very small and light, runs fine on windows including the dreaded Vista
I see you shiver in anticip......................................................................................ation
Really happy this is sorted. For me every time I opened anything about Adobe 9 it wanted me to BUY it and I don't BUY it so thus the Adobe 8 suggestion. However thanks Kim for the foxit alternative as I will follow that up as well. Do not like Adobe.
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