cannot open zipped file

[MichelleG2]

I am trying to open a zipped file uploaded by my professor through adobe acrobat reader but it keeps giving me an error message which states the file is not supported or it has been damaged. The other students have been able to access it without a problem though.

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

A .zip file is not a .pdf file. You need to extract the .pdf file from the .zip file before Adobe Reader or any other PDF file reader or editor can open the PDF contents. The “other students” could not have directly opened the PDF file without extracting it first from the ZIP file.

You didn't say what operating system you were running on, but depending upon the OS, you can sometimes click on a ZIP file and it will be opened like a directory / folder from which you can then click on any of the contents and invoke the proper application. I sustpect that is what the other students did.