Mrs. Muddled Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 I have just attempted to print out a PDF form. I got this screen ... Yellow triangle, Acrobat Plug In .... could not launch. I tried several different PDF files and got the same. I have the following files installed on my computer. Could you let me know if they are out of date and if I should delete them and install something else: Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Adobe Flash Player 10 Active X Adobe Flash Player 10 Plug in Adobe Reader Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 Download Foxit Reader and abandon Adobe and all it's plugins. Quote
Mrs. Muddled Posted January 1, 2009 Author Posted January 1, 2009 Download Foxit Reader and abandon Adobe and all it's plugins.Thank you Bruce - to the rescue as always. Actually I had Foxit Reader on my computer! I think I downloaded it at some point and never installed it. Probably when I got this new computer and was wading my way through Vista. So, I've cleaned all of Adobe off and all is well. Thank you again and all the best to you and yours in the coming year. Quote
Mrs. Muddled Posted January 2, 2009 Author Posted January 2, 2009 Glad I could help I have a little problem with Foxit. My husband got an email this morning with a pdf file attached. The icon in the attachment line was blank. No Foxit icon. He forwarded the email to my side of the computer. It arrived with the appropriate Foxit icon showing and I had no trouble opening the document. I tried sending it back to him. Same problem. I have changed his status on the computer to Administrator to see if that would make a difference. I have reduced the security levels on his Outlook Express program. I have looked in control panel to see what the defaults are and there is no mention of .pdf as a selection. He has the Foxit icon in his quick start. If I click on it it opens properly. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted January 3, 2009 Posted January 3, 2009 It sounds like Foxit is not his default PDF application. Or log on as him bring up Windows Explorer, navigate to a PDF file on the hard drive. Hold down the shift key and right click on the file name. Select the Open With option, then Choose program, then find Foxit Reader, select it and check the box to make it the default app for PDF files. Then it should work. Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted January 3, 2009 Posted January 3, 2009 Also remember to look for updates to Foxit regularly since they are quite fast with correcting eventual bugs in it. Quote
Mrs. Muddled Posted January 4, 2009 Author Posted January 4, 2009 Can you tell me why Foxit will not open Reuters UK? It is demanding I install an Adobe Plug in. Quote
Mrs. Muddled Posted January 4, 2009 Author Posted January 4, 2009 It sounds like Foxit is not his default PDF application. Actually it does show up on his side as the default application. Fortunately he gets minimal .pdf files so he will just have to keep sending them over to my side and viewing them from there. Hate it when I can't figure something out. Quote
Mrs. Muddled Posted January 4, 2009 Author Posted January 4, 2009 Okay, now I'm totally frustrated! I can't open ANY videos in the news. I keep getting the pop ups that tell me I HAVE to download Adobe. What gives? Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted January 4, 2009 Posted January 4, 2009 Now I am a bit confused, but are you trying to view videos through Foxit, or another program? Or is it that the program are looking for Adobe flashplayer? Quote
Mrs. Muddled Posted January 4, 2009 Author Posted January 4, 2009 Now I am a bit confused, but are you trying to view videos through Foxit, or another program?Or is it that the program are looking for Adobe flashplayer? I dumped ALL Adobe stuff off the computer when it was suggested to me that I download Foxit. I either get "download plug in" when I try to open a video ... or I get download Adobe Flash Player. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted January 4, 2009 Posted January 4, 2009 To play flash content you need a flash plugin. Sorry if I confused you with telling you to dump the Reader. Quote
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