Pdf not opening in vista

If your browser opened a downloads window, double-click the PDF in the downloads list. Here's how to set it up:. Click the triangle next to Open With , and choose Adobe Acrobat Reader or Adobe Acrobat from the pop-up list if your preference is not on the list, choose Other to select it.

Installing the latest updates might solve the issue. If the Updater dialog box appears, click Yes. The update will automatically install. Try repairing the product using the step below. Be cautious. These PDFs can pose a security risk to your system.

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Windows 11 Uninstall Clock. Teams Walkie-Talkie. I've run into this problem before; it's definitely caching related; IE won't "cache" the download into the system temp file and thus adobe can't open it from there.

Thanks Eamon, I kept trying and ended up finding a programmatic solution! This worked great for me Thank you so much, I've been trying loads of different ways people have suggested online and none worked until now, so thank you : — Ben. That did not require changing settings in the browser. After a lot of searching and trying different variations of the response headers, the solution for me was to set: Response. AppendHeader "Accept-Ranges", "none" ; This downloads the whole pdf before it opens which is less user-friendly if it is a very large pdf.

Daniel Lee Daniel Lee 7, 1 1 gold badge 43 43 silver badges 56 56 bronze badges. None of the cache-control solutions worked but this did i. ClearContent ; Response. ClearHeaders ; Response. AddHeader "Cache-control", "no-store" ; Response.

AddHeader "Content-Length", documentBytes. ToString ; Response. BinaryWrite documentBytes ; Response. Flush ; HttpContext. My solution it took us days of playing around with headers to get this to work : if System. Clear ; System. ClearContent ; System. ClearHeaders ; System. AppendHeader "Pragma", "public" ; System.

Filename ; System. AddHeader "content-length", document. ToString ; System. BinaryWrite document. Jeff Moser Jeff Moser Good call Jeff. It's actually the bit IE on bit Vista some of the pages contain flash, and there isn't a bit flash player yet.

Will edit the question There could be a potential issue with saving the file. I updated my answer. In IE I unchecked "Do not save encrypted pages to disk". It looks like. PDF or. Very odd What cache-control headers are you sending? Try sending Cache-Control: private rather than any directive that forbids caching. Ronnie Smith Ronnie Smith.

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