Acrobat Reader


¿Hablas español – Adobe?

Before you panic – it simply asks “Do you speak Spanish – Adobe?”. This strangeness occurred when automatically installing Acrobat reader from the acrobat reader web site. Instead of the expected .exe file being downloaded – I was surprised to see the Mac version of the reader with a .dmg file extension being offered. Not […]


Acrobat Reader oddness

For the third time in three weeks the villian in the piece has turned out to be Acrobat Reader. The first instance was very high cpu utilisation. The second was the incorrect configuration of associations for pdfs after an upgrade of Acrobat. The final was the slow opening of pdf documents. The common factor was […]


Another pdf related problem – files not opening with Acrobat Reader – need to change association on Windows 7

For a windows 7 user – that I recently installed Acrobat Reader 10.1 – reporting to me that email attachments that were PDF files were not opening in Acrobat Reader rather in Media Center – but showing as empty here is a solution. The steps top change the pdf  association under windows 7 were   […]