Re: OT: Adobe Reader weirdness

On Mar 18, 5:35�pm, donald <Don...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A few months ago I installed Reader 8.1.1 on an XP machine.
( new install of Adobe Reader to a new new install of XP, on a new
harddrive)

Sometime in the past few weeks, whenever I double click on a pdf file,
Reader will open in half of the screen, the lower half.

I went through the options, but when I open a pdf file for the first
time abter booing up the machine, it will be half a page.

Today I deleted v8.1.1 and installed 8.1.2, and the same half screen
startup.

Anyone see this before ?

donald

I've not seen it, but I'm somewhat familiar with Adobe weirdness, --
particularly with their Illustrator-10 product (which I would NEVER
purchase again!!) So, at least I've been there.

I have a couple questions:
You're saying "half-page". What does that mean exactly?
The Acrobat window consumes half the screen space, or the PDF image
contained in the Acrobat window is using only half the available
space?

Obviously: Check File, File Properties, etc.. and see what the Open
Options are set to.
If set to Windows default, that could be your problem. This setting
is document specific, by the way....

Also check the magnifacation factor on startup. (Also, document -
specific unless set to Windows default)

You might try opening a PDF and then adjust everything you need to do,
to get it to fill the screen. Then save this resulting effort as a
new file somewhere. Close Acrobat, and then reopen that or another
file and see if things get reset.

Otherwise, I suspect you'll have to track down what the preferences
file is for your version of Acrobat (sorry, have no idea what it's
called, but it's probably NOT over-written on a re-install
incidentally, which is why that approach won't work). You'll have to
delete this file and Acrobat will recreate it on its next run.

At least, that was the "fix" for the Illustrator-10 bug(s). I
suspect the same sort of thing with Acrobat.

Lots of folks will tell you to jump ship and use some other PDF
vendor. Sometimes this is the right move. I contend a better move
is to simply use version 5.0, which will more than likely do
everything you'll likely ever need it to, and it was a very, very
stable release on XP platforms.

Good luck.
-mpm
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