Acrobat Reader Has a Very Annoying Bug

[dusan3060872081n3]

I have created a PDF with 5 attachments. All Attachments are regular PDF files. 

PDF files were created using 3rd party component.

If I open PDF width Adobe Reader all attachments are listed. The thing is that 2 of those 5 file attachments do not want to be displayed or saved. Acrobat Reader does not message anything. Just does nothing.

Then I created another PDF file and attached those two "problematic" PDF files.

It works like a breeze.

It appears there is a bug in Adobe Reader. I am using the latest version as of today.

The thing is that Foxit and Nitro have no problems whatsoever to display all attachments correctly.

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May well be that the third party component is creating borderline faulty PDFs. This sort of thing happens a lot, and it's easy to assume that the software that trips over the fault is itself faulty. I don't suppose you can share this problem file publicly, but if you can create a sample file with the same problem, you can upload it here and someone may take a look. Overall, though, your time may be better spent working with the support for the 3rd party component.

[dusan3060872081n3]

Thanks for the suggestion. I will create an example and post it here 🙂

However, even before chatGPT technologies were born it was a good practice to respond with some info/action if input data does not comply with a host's standards. Acrobat Reader in this case. Saying nothing is just not good enough. For sure there is a reason why Adore Reader does not react when a file attachment is clicked. Right-click shows the enabled context menu. But no action after a click. Popping out a message to indicate the reason is hygienic minimum in this case. Asking third-party development to explain why Adobe Reader has problems does not seem the right approach. However, it could be the last resource to try out 🙂  

[dusan3060872081n3]

Here is an example of a PDF with 6 attachments.

Attachments 4 and 5 do not open when double-clicked.

The main PDF document page is intentionally left empty.

If documents 4 and 5 are the only ones added to the main pdf Adobe Reader works as expected.