PDF files on 10.8 Server do not open correctly. White pages or crash when opening in acrobat

Yes. Do not install Acrobat on Macs unless you definitely need it for some reason. It causes problems like the one you describe.

If you can find a Mac you haven't already installed Acrobat on you might like to try a same PDF on it just to check that it opens properly. Let the PDFs open in Preview, which is a program Apple supplies with the OS. They should look fine.

If it does, do everything you can to remove Acrobat and everything related to it from your Macs. I believe there are 'uninstall' instructions in the installer, or on Adobe's site.

Please test that if you copy one of those PDFs from the server to the local drive, it opens okay.

Please also test that you have write privilages for the shared space the the PDFs are in. I know you only want to read them, but Acrobat opens with write privilages so it can make notes.

I've exactly the same problem.

Did you find a solution?

Hi Secret42,

I am with the Acrobat Support team and the issue you are expereincing has been identified as a Bug with Acrobat 11.

Ref Bug http://watsonexp.corp.adobe.com/#bug=35900443590044. This is being worked upon by Acrobat Engineering team.

Hi Secret,

Had exactly the same issue with a server I set up and PDF's. Found out the problem was with SMB, try using this https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/41541/smbup It solved my problem.

Thanks