pdf crashes

[Troy Piggins]

Is it just my browsers? When I accidentally click on a link that is
actually a pdf file, and Acrobat 6 opens up automatically within the
browser (IExplorer and Firefox), the pdf opens OK, but if I try to click
a link, or go back in history, the browsers lock up for some time - the
pdf file takes ages to close.

I can't be the only one this happens to - and if not, solutions?

 

[Matthew Payne]

Is it just my browsers? When I accidentally click on a link that is
actually a pdf file, and Acrobat 6 opens up automatically within the
browser (IExplorer and Firefox), the pdf opens OK, but if I try to click
a link, or go back in history, the browsers lock up for some time - the
pdf file takes ages to close.

I can't be the only one this happens to - and if not, solutions?

Might be a bad install of Acrobat. I'd try uninstalling it and then
reinstalling it first. I've never had that problem.

 

[Neal]

Is it just my browsers? When I accidentally click on a link that is
actually a pdf file, and Acrobat 6 opens up automatically within the
browser (IExplorer and Firefox), the pdf opens OK, but if I try to click
a link, or go back in history, the browsers lock up for some time - the
pdf file takes ages to close.

I can't be the only one this happens to - and if not, solutions?

I've never had this happen, but it smells like a corrupted installation.
Hope you still have the installation exe on the computer. Uninstall
Acrobat, restart computer, reinstall Acrobat, and try it now.

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Is it just my browsers?
No.

When I accidentally click on a link that is
actually a pdf file, and Acrobat 6 opens up automatically within the
browser (IExplorer and Firefox), the pdf opens OK, but if I try to
click a link, or go back in history, the browsers lock up for some
time - the pdf file takes ages to close.

I have not seen _such_ problems, but it is fairly common to see IE freeze
when you have clicked on a link to a PDF file. Sometimes I need to boot
the computer, sometimes it suffices to Ctrl+Alt+Del and kill the IE
process and the Acrobat Reader process. This typically happens for
_large_ PDF files. And from what I've heard and read, such problems are
common.

Hence, it is generally useful to warn users about PDF format, e.g.
putting "(PDF)" after or before a link. Users can then e.g. right-click
on the link, save on disk, and open from disk, which generally works
fine. Technically you could also put type="application/pdf" into the <a>
element, but this has by default no effect on rendering, and won't help
much in other ways either.

 

[Troy Piggins]

Hence, it is generally useful to warn users about PDF format, e.g.
putting "(PDF)" after or before a link. Users can then e.g. right-click
on the link, save on disk, and open from disk, which generally works
fine. Technically you could also put type="application/pdf" into the <a>
element, but this has by default no effect on rendering, and won't help
much in other ways either.

I think it would be nice for the web page designers to make it clear
what the link will open if anything other than html/jpg etc.

I am trying a reinstall of Acroreader.

 

[Troy Piggins]

I've never had this happen, but it smells like a corrupted installation.
Hope you still have the installation exe on the computer. Uninstall
Acrobat, restart computer, reinstall Acrobat, and try it now.

You smelled correctly. Reinstall all OK now. Thanks.

 

[Troy Piggins]

Might be a bad install of Acrobat. I'd try uninstalling it and then
reinstalling it first. I've never had that problem.

Done and fixed. Thankyou.