How do I use a 10 year old app with Acrobat Reader in 2020?

[nick888vvv]

I want use a software programme that came out in 2010.

It's a library archive on DVD with thousands of articles in pdf format.

The search software works exactly as it should. Yet when I try to retrieve a pdf, Acrobat shows a blank screen.

When the software came out, Version 9 was the default.

Will current versions of Acrobat Reader not open older pdfs?

Any ideas for a workaround?

Thanks.

[Test Screen Name]

Does it show a blank screen or does it just sit there as if it wasn’t asked to open anything? Are you able to open random PDFs from the CD?

[nick888vvv]

It opens up my current version of Acrobat Reader but doesn't load the pdf itself.

However, I can load the pdf's themselves direct from the DVD. There are thousands of them though and none with meaningful file names...so I need to access them via the sofware to figure out what I'm looking at.

Thanks.

[try67]

That means the issue is with how the software (tries to) load the PDF file in the application.

It probably doesn't specify the correct file-path to it, or something like that.

[nick888vvv]

Thanks.

Any idea how I can resolve this?

I'm surprised that newer versions of Reader aren't backwards compatible.

[Bernd Alheit]

Try this:

Disable the protection mode in the preferences of Acrobat Reader.