I have an issue on ALL my computers (Work desktop, work laptop, home desktop, wife's laptop) where sometimes when loading PDF files from a website, you just get a blank dialog box that says Adobe Acrobat in the titlebar, but there's no other text... just an OK button. You click OK and there's nothing in the web page, so you have to click back and try again. Sometimes the PDF loads correctly the second time, but I've seen it take 4, 5, 6, or more times reloading the webpage to get the PDF to load.
This happens in IE and Firefox (even the new Firefox 4 beta). It doesn't seem to be a problem in Google Chrome, but I think they use their own PDF engine to read and display PDF's. I like to primarilly use Chrome for that reason alone.
All of the PC's are Windows 7. One of them is 64 bit, the others are 32 bit. Anyone experience this problem and have a workaround? I've tried various versions of Adobe from 8 reader to 9.4 reader, and also the Standard and Professional versions as well.
As far as telling Adobe to not display PDF's in browser; that does not work for a web based application at work. If we do that, the web based app will open adobe and you will have a dialog asking to allow or block. If you click allow and "remember this choice", it opens and closes a window over and over again. Acrobat needs to be shut down in the task manager to stop the windows from appearing and dissapearing.
We would use Google Chrome 100%, but some websites only work in IE.
Thanks.
Only Reader and Acrobat versions 9 and X are compatible with Windows 7. The 64 bit version has some issues with Acrobat forms, mostly email.