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June 18, 2020
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Adobe Acrobat 2017 Pro

  • June 18, 2020
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When I try to open/download a pdf portfolio I receive a message that I should download Reader X to view.  Why is this? SUrely Acrobat 2017 Pro can open these? Am I missng a setting somewhere that allows Acrobat to open a pdf Portfolio?

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    Karl Heinz Kremer
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    Karl Heinz KremerCommunity Expert
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    June 18, 2020

    Is this when you try to view the PDF file in a browser? Here is the problem: In the past, there was a very good chance that when you tried to access a PDF file in a browser, it got displayed in Adobe software - either the free Reader or Adobe Acrobat. Some web sites tried to figure out the version number of the Adobe viewer installed to flag a potential problem, if the viewer was not recent enough to display e.g. a PDF portfolio. This has changed as now most browsers come with their own PDF viewer built in. And none of these can deal with PDF portfolios. The web site you are trying to download from does not even see that you have Adobe Acrobat 2017 Pro installed, because the browser is no longer reporting that. The best way to resolve this is to force a download of the PDF file. How that is done depends on how the web site is trying to deliver this file, so you may have to talk to the admin of the site. 

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    davidv6117741Author
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    June 18, 2020

    Thank you sir.  The site I am trying to download this item from allows other pdf documents to be viewed in Adobe Acrobat 2017.  This is the problem I have, a number of pdf's open however, one is reported in the error message to be a pfd portfolio and it suggests opening with Reader x or adobe acrobat X. I am not familiar with pfd portfolio and therefore am unclear as to why the application will not open it rather it displays this error message.

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      June 19, 2020

      It's not a quirk. As explained before, Edge has its own PDF viewer that does not support a whole bunch of features in your PDF file (e.g. PDF portfolios), whereas IE uses the Acrobat/Reader browser plugin. That means that you are opening the file in an Adobe PDF viewer and have access to all features (at least those supported by your version of Acrobat). If the web site does not support a simple download link for the PDF files, they are making it impossible for users of Edge, Firefox, Chrome and other browsers to access these files. That's why I suggested complaining to the site owner. 


      Site authors don't need to do anything. Edge can save the PDF you are looking at. Now, many people think they are seeing an error message - this is quite reasonable - so they think saving is not possible. But just try it. This screen shot shows the Save as (download) button in Edge.

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