For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat 9 or Adobe Read

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For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat 9 or Adobe Read

Hi,

For the first time I am aware of a user has received a PDF that cannot be opened in Preview.

The pdf opens to a splash screen showing, "For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat 9 or Adobe Reader 9, or later." There is a large button showing " Get Adobe Reader 9"

It is a 15Mb document but we cannot get beyond the splash screen in Preview so I have had to install Reader 9 for the user.

Turns out the document is a very basic slideshow. It seems this is a new (to me) format of PDF which forces users to install Reader.

Is there any way these image portfolios can be opened within Preview so I don't have to install Adobe Reader bloatware again?

Thanks,

b .

Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Apr 23, 2010 6:33 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Apr 23, 2010 6:42 AM in response to buckster

Is there any way these image portfolios can be opened within Preview so I don't have to install Adobe Reader bloatware again?

I doubt it, but perhaps others have better info...

You can ask Apple to expand Preview's capabilities here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Personally I have never found Preview to be a complete substitute for Adobe Reader and always have both on my machine to deal with pdfs, which have a large number of possible variations in terms of version, features, and encodings.

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-g

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Apr 23, 2010 8:10 AM in response to buckster

you probably know this, but since you don't say anything about it, how was the PDF saved (version compatibility wise)? — while it may be a simple slide show, it more than likely has features that only Acrobat 9 supports (or that have been broken in the latest round of updates, like the Safari acrobat plugin that now disregards Adobe opening preferences, for example)

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it seems PDF is the latest apple-adobe 'thing' with the all the flash and photoshop and colorsync...

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buckster Author

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Apr 23, 2010 11:48 AM in response to -g

-g wrote:
you probably know this, but since you don't say anything about it, how was the PDF saved (version compatibility wise)?

it's provenance was a 3rd party via email... i am not sure of the process involved in creating it, and it's not important enough fro me to investigate.

-g wrote:
it seems PDF is the latest apple-adobe 'thing' with the all the flash and photoshop and colorsync...

seems that way to me. hope preview catches up soon.

b.

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