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Can you tell us which update? Might help me avoid some heartache....

This is a known issue with Acrobat 6.0

Just update to 6.01 or higher and the problem goes away.

If for some reason you can't do this then just open the Acrobat Reader application (Doesn't need a document open) before you click on the link in your browser. The document will then open in your browser normally.

Peter

I should be OK then. Most of my punters are running 7.

geez truckster, do you know about computer stuff? What a nerd!!
I thought you were some kind of really hard bastard. I'm taking your poster down as we speak.

I am shedding tears as we read :'(

If we werent so anal, and didnt have "Corp standards imposed by USA" we could fix the problem too :(

Geez Truckie, who do you work for?

The multi-National Company I work for has similar standards but we overwrite them when necessary.

The one good thing about standards is that there are so many to pick from.

hahahaha angler, I second that one :))))

large tobacco company..

anal isnt the word for them.

What also pisses me is asset disposals..

We get rid of so many laptops and stuff (EG BRAND NEW PRINTERS IN THE BOX UNUSED), that staff cannot get near.. I only want 1x T30 Stinkpad. :(

Half ya luck Truckster. Asset disposal is the bain of my life.

Heaven forbid if I have anything still left in the box after a week of acquisition. Then when it is well past it's use by date, the view of management is that if it still turns on, it is still useable.

I still have some gear which must have been around in Noah's time. I slowly slip them into the nearest skip so it goes under the radar. Unfortunately it is usually so old it can't be given to charities and is certainly worth nothing.

Sand Man, I had a similar problem on a couple of workstations running Firefox. Upgrading to Adobe 7 fixed the problem. Goodluck.

I work for a large yank company here in Oz. I think all of our PC's are leased and regularly turned over.

Leasing is the best option in most cases. Nothing worse than having to distribute 'old' PCs to staff. Nothing but a PITA.

Yup, leasing is good - BUT ...
Your stuck with DeLL and bleep service
Your stuck with HP and bleep service
Your stuck withand bleep service

etc

Leasing isn't much of an option when you are supporting 1500+ Desktops and 200-300 Laptops.

We just take delivery of the new boxes, zap 'em with the "Gold Disk" to install everything and give them to the end user.

It's only when something like the Adobe problem crops up (on some of our own internal PC's) that you do a problem analysis and find out what the problem is.
Our American colleagues in some cases are still running Windows 2000 or less.

Ours come preinstalled when we do a turnover :)

Leasing was the only way to go when supporting 3,500+ desktops and 400 laptops spread over 100+ locations in NSW alone. Used to take delivery of 500 units at a time, automated some of the build process and used schoolkids to finalise configuration (OS/2 then Windows NT).

Truckie,

Depends on how good your agreement is, your relationship with the provider and how you define service.

No worries Rosco,

Thought it would.
We spent a while trying to identify the problem without much success, until we decided to try the latest version of Acrobat and "fluked" success.

Then we sit back and tell the Yanks how bloody good we are:-)

We knew straight away what the problem was, but we are not allowed to do anything about it... LOL

We have a team meeeting today, so shall spit the dummy :D

get it right ..its "poke" a stick ay....got it ?

Coke ... probably too much information, and I expect I don't know what you go around poking your stick at .. OK ??

As for me, I usually find a good shake will suffice ..... :o))