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I'm attempting to dowload some *.pdf forms from the web and there is a
small toolbar window that opens briefly. When I click on the disk icon to save the image, nothing happens! In fact, none of the toolbar options work! This appears to be happening only with Win7; it did not happen with XP. Can someone explain why? Bill |
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On 23/03/2012 15:12, Bill wrote:
I'm attempting to dowload some *.pdf forms from the web and there is a small toolbar window that opens briefly. When I click on the disk icon to save the image, nothing happens! In fact, none of the toolbar options work! This appears to be happening only with Win7; it did not happen with XP. Can someone explain why? Bill What happens if you click on the pdf link using your browser? Does the pdf open? -- Jeff |
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Jeff, In the browser, all of my saved *.pdf files open in Adobe Reader! But when I get this toolbar, none of the toolbar options, Disc, Print, etc. work. Didn't used to be this way! Once the form appears on the screen, no where do I see a window to "Save" the file! Bill On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:38:57 +0000, Jeff Layman wrote: On 23/03/2012 15:12, Bill wrote: I'm attempting to dowload some *.pdf forms from the web and there is a small toolbar window that opens briefly. When I click on the disk icon to save the image, nothing happens! In fact, none of the toolbar options work! This appears to be happening only with Win7; it did not happen with XP. Can someone explain why? Bill What happens if you click on the pdf link using your browser? Does the pdf open? |
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:14:19 -0700, Bill
wrote: In the browser, all of my saved *.pdf files open in Adobe Reader! But when I get this toolbar, none of the toolbar options, Disc, Print, etc. work. Didn't used to be this way! Once the form appears on the screen, no where do I see a window to "Save" the file! If it's working properly, the buttons for saving, printing, etc., should show up (at the lower center of the screen) when you move the mouse toward the bottom of the screen. -- Char Jackson |
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On 23/03/2012 19:14, Bill wrote:
Jeff, In the browser, all of my saved *.pdf files open in Adobe Reader! But when I get this toolbar, none of the toolbar options, Disc, Print, etc. work. Didn't used to be this way! Once the form appears on the screen, no where do I see a window to "Save" the file! Bill If Char's suggestion does not work, I am not sure what's going on. Out of interest, I would try downloading something like PDF-XChange PDF Viewer and installing that (much less bloat than Adobe, anyway!) and associating pdfs with that. If you can download, view, and save pdfs with that, I would assume that something had changed with Adobe Reader. If so, you can either keep PDF-Exchange, or uninstall and reinstall Adobe Reader if you prefer that. -- Jeff On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:38:57 +0000, Jeff Layman wrote: On 23/03/2012 15:12, Bill wrote: I'm attempting to dowload some *.pdf forms from the web and there is a small toolbar window that opens briefly. When I click on the disk icon to save the image, nothing happens! In fact, none of the toolbar options work! This appears to be happening only with Win7; it did not happen with XP. Can someone explain why? Bill What happens if you click on the pdf link using your browser? Does the pdf open? |
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Bill wrote:
I'm attempting to dowload some *.pdf forms from the web and there is a small toolbar window that opens briefly. When I click on the disk icon to save the image, nothing happens! In fact, none of the toolbar options work! This appears to be happening only with Win7; it did not happen with XP. Can someone explain why? Bill When you install Acrobat, there are a couple things you can do in the Preferences 1) Disable Javascript in Acrobat PDF documents. It's probably the default, but verify Javascript is disabled. This is a security issue. There are twits on the web, who put up PDFs with javascript malware inside. 2) In the Acrobat Preferences, disable viewing the PDF in the browser window. This will encourage the Save dialog to pop up, and you can specify where to save the file. As for the particular web site, you could either post a link to it, or take a screen snapshot of the lame toolbar in action. There are picture hosting sites, like imageshack.us that allow uploading pictures for sharing with others. Using the picture, someone here may have seen what you're seeing now. Paul |
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Thnaks to all! I took Paul's two suggestions but unfortunately, no
effect! I probably should have been more specific - log onto: http://c.mfcreative.com/pdf/trees/charts/1790.pdf A pdf image of the 1790 Census form will appear. Then note the very bottom center of the image. An toolbar image will appear very briefly showing a Disc, Print, Up arrow, Down arrow, and a few other icons. It appears so briefly that I can't capture a screen image but you will understand my problem. Clicking on the Disk does nothing! Is there possibly a preferences setting in Win7 that I should change? This did not happen in XP. Bill On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:32:23 -0400, Paul wrote: Bill wrote: I'm attempting to dowload some *.pdf forms from the web and there is a small toolbar window that opens briefly. When I click on the disk icon to save the image, nothing happens! In fact, none of the toolbar options work! This appears to be happening only with Win7; it did not happen with XP. Can someone explain why? Bill When you install Acrobat, there are a couple things you can do in the Preferences 1) Disable Javascript in Acrobat PDF documents. It's probably the default, but verify Javascript is disabled. This is a security issue. There are twits on the web, who put up PDFs with javascript malware inside. 2) In the Acrobat Preferences, disable viewing the PDF in the browser window. This will encourage the Save dialog to pop up, and you can specify where to save the file. As for the particular web site, you could either post a link to it, or take a screen snapshot of the lame toolbar in action. There are picture hosting sites, like imageshack.us that allow uploading pictures for sharing with others. Using the picture, someone here may have seen what you're seeing now. Paul |
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On 23/03/2012 20:19, Bill wrote:
Thnaks to all! I took Paul's two suggestions but unfortunately, no effect! I probably should have been more specific - log onto: http://c.mfcreative.com/pdf/trees/charts/1790.pdf A pdf image of the 1790 Census form will appear. Then note the very bottom center of the image. An toolbar image will appear very briefly showing a Disc, Print, Up arrow, Down arrow, and a few other icons. It appears so briefly that I can't capture a screen image but you will understand my problem. Clicking on the Disk does nothing! Is there possibly a preferences setting in Win7 that I should change? This did not happen in XP. Bill Clicking on your link opens the page in Firefox (in PDF-Xchange PDF Viewer - I have the option set to display pdfs in the Browser) and I can save it without problem. -- Jeff |
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Jeff,
I don't use Firefox but I checked my browser settings but I do not find a "display pdfs in the Browser" block! Bill On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:38:37 +0000, Jeff Layman wrote: On 23/03/2012 20:19, Bill wrote: Thnaks to all! I took Paul's two suggestions but unfortunately, no effect! I probably should have been more specific - log onto: http://c.mfcreative.com/pdf/trees/charts/1790.pdf A pdf image of the 1790 Census form will appear. Then note the very bottom center of the image. An toolbar image will appear very briefly showing a Disc, Print, Up arrow, Down arrow, and a few other icons. It appears so briefly that I can't capture a screen image but you will understand my problem. Clicking on the Disk does nothing! Is there possibly a preferences setting in Win7 that I should change? This did not happen in XP. Bill Clicking on your link opens the page in Firefox (in PDF-Xchange PDF Viewer - I have the option set to display pdfs in the Browser) and I can save it without problem. |
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Click File/Save As
- Save is disabled until its saved (and only available if an editable file) See this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/757081 -- ....winston msft mvp mail "Jeff Layman" wrote in message ... On 23/03/2012 20:19, Bill wrote: Thnaks to all! I took Paul's two suggestions but unfortunately, no effect! I probably should have been more specific - log onto: http://c.mfcreative.com/pdf/trees/charts/1790.pdf A pdf image of the 1790 Census form will appear. Then note the very bottom center of the image. An toolbar image will appear very briefly showing a Disc, Print, Up arrow, Down arrow, and a few other icons. It appears so briefly that I can't capture a screen image but you will understand my problem. Clicking on the Disk does nothing! Is there possibly a preferences setting in Win7 that I should change? This did not happen in XP. Bill Clicking on your link opens the page in Firefox (in PDF-Xchange PDF Viewer - I have the option set to display pdfs in the Browser) and I can save it without problem. -- Jeff |
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Thanks, but unable to open your thread! Keep getting a window that
says "No application is associated with this URL type "http". Bill On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:08:48 -0400, "...winston" wrote: Click File/Save As - Save is disabled until its saved (and only available if an editable file) See this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/757081 -- ...winston msft mvp mail "Jeff Layman" wrote in message ... On 23/03/2012 20:19, Bill wrote: Thnaks to all! I took Paul's two suggestions but unfortunately, no effect! I probably should have been more specific - log onto: http://c.mfcreative.com/pdf/trees/charts/1790.pdf A pdf image of the 1790 Census form will appear. Then note the very bottom center of the image. An toolbar image will appear very briefly showing a Disc, Print, Up arrow, Down arrow, and a few other icons. It appears so briefly that I can't capture a screen image but you will understand my problem. Clicking on the Disk does nothing! Is there possibly a preferences setting in Win7 that I should change? This did not happen in XP. Bill Clicking on your link opens the page in Firefox (in PDF-Xchange PDF Viewer - I have the option set to display pdfs in the Browser) and I can save it without problem. |
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Bill wrote:
Jeff, I don't use Firefox but I checked my browser settings but I do not find a "display pdfs in the Browser" block! Bill OK, here, I've enabled opening PDF documents in my browser. The upper half of this image, shows the "Save a Copy" button near the upper left of the screen. What that should do, is save a copy from your Temporary Internet folder to a place of your choosing. It's not meant to encourage editing - most of the time, if the button works at all, all it's doing is transferring the downloaded file somewhere where you'll find it. http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/991...thesetting.gif To me, viewing PDF files inside the browser window, as I've done in the example, is a brain dead thing to do. For precisely the reason you're discovering. Many things don't work properly in the browser. And, in addition, there are some exploits that can be performed that way. Say the "Save a Copy" button is not working. What you really want, is to *stop opening PDFs in the browser window* . So what I want you to do instead, is go to your list of programs and find the program for Adobe Acrobat Reader. When you open it from Start, you should end up with a blank document. Now, look in Edit : Preferences. There will be a tab called "Internet". Click the tab. It will say "Web Browser Options". Locate the box labeled "Display PDF in browser" and *untick* the box. Click OK at the bottom. You can leave Acrobat running if you want, or close the blank Adobe Reader window. Now, go back to your Internet browser. You'd typed http://c.mfcreative.com/pdf/trees/charts/1790.pdf in the browser. After having made the change to the preference inside Adobe Acrobat Reader, when you enter the URL this time in the browser, instead of the PDF opening in the browser window, you'll *immediately* be given a chance to save the document. ******* While you're in the Edit : Preferences thing in Acrobat, you should also locate the Javascript preference, and make sure it's disabled. PDF documents can have Javascript code (executable) inside them. Some browsers, they scan the PDF for executable code. But I've since learned, that the code can be obfuscated (hidden) by the nature of the design of PDFs. (Someone wrote an article, about how the Javascript can be hidden, and twits who make the PDFs will be getting ideas from the article.) So there is no guarantee that perhaps anything other than an AV/malware checker program can prevent you from being infected by one. If you disable the Javascript preference inside the Edit : Preferences thing in Adobe Acrobat Reader, it provides one more barrier to being infected by malicious PDFs off the web. Obfuscated or not, disabling Javascript should stop malignant PDFs in their tracks. Paul |
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On 23/03/2012 21:05, Bill wrote:
Jeff, I don't use Firefox but I checked my browser settings but I do not find a "display pdfs in the Browser" block! Bill The setting is within the pdf viewer (ie adobe reader) options - not the browser options. -- Jeff |
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On 23/03/2012 21:38, Bill wrote:
Thanks, but unable to open your thread! Keep getting a window that says "No application is associated with this URL type "http". Bill You seem to be getting quite a few problems! Have you scanned for malware recently? The forum article ...winston referred to points out that numerous people have had the same problem as you, with the "Save" option greyed out. The way round it is apparently to change the pdf in some way (eg to add a comment) and then "Save as" becomes available. One other suggestion was to use Ctrl+Shift+S, which brings up the "Save as" dialogue box. -- Jeff |
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OK, everyone, I tried the Cntl+Shift+S and while it gave me a dropdown
window saying "This document does not allow any changes", I was able to finally save the file! I also finally opened the forum article on the "greyed-out" toolbar, but all I see is a lot of people with the same problem, but I still didn't see a clear explanation as to why, unless it has to do with restrictions on editing the file after it's downloaded! Anyway, I really appreciate all of your suggestions and patience. Thanks! Bill On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:05:01 +0000, Jeff Layman wrote: On 23/03/2012 21:38, Bill wrote: Thanks, but unable to open your thread! Keep getting a window that says "No application is associated with this URL type "http". Bill You seem to be getting quite a few problems! Have you scanned for malware recently? The forum article ...winston referred to points out that numerous people have had the same problem as you, with the "Save" option greyed out. The way round it is apparently to change the pdf in some way (eg to add a comment) and then "Save as" becomes available. One other suggestion was to use Ctrl+Shift+S, which brings up the "Save as" dialogue box. |
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