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brianc44272166
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May 27, 2017
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Can't open zip attachments in Adobe Acrobat Pro on Mac

  • May 27, 2017
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I keep getting the error "Adobe acrobat cannot open the file attachment because your pdf file attachment settings" for the zip file I have attached to a PDF sent to me, and when I click save to export it I get "You have selected a file that cannot be exported from Adobe Acrobat"

In Preferences > Trust Manager I have "Allow opening of non-PDFs" checked but that hasn't helped.


Any idea of how I can extract this zip file from my PDF on my mac?

Running Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2017

Architecture: x86_64

Build: 17.9.20044.222436

AGM: 4.30.69

CoolType: 5.14.5

JP2K: 1.2.2.38123

[You posted to the Adobe Acrobat Reader forum. The Reader is free and you state that you are actually using Acrobat Pro.
Moved by Moderator to Editing & Exporting PDFs.]

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pavele22994842
Participant
April 12, 2018

Too bad Adobe, someone sent me PDF with ZIP and I can't open it...

Here how it can be done without using an Adobe Reader (isn't it hilarious, so big and heavy app but can't do much staff)

brew install poppler
pdfdetach -list doc.pdf
pdfdetach -save 1 doc.pdf ("1" is number of file in a list)
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Tariq AhmadCommunity Manager
Community Manager
May 30, 2017

Hi brianc44272166,

Sorry for the delay in response.

File formats supported in Acrobat: Supported file formats in Acrobat and Reader and .zip is not clearly among them.

There are different third party application help you to extract .zip file on Mac; macOS Sierra: Compress or uncompress files and folders 

Let us know if that helps.

-Tariq Dar

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