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Re: I cannot even start downloading Acrobat Reader!

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From: Aandi Inston
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 11:31
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>I spoke too soon. <BR>
>The saga continues. Acroreader is there, nice and ready, but when I try to get a document from a web page, it pops up: &lt;&lt;Windows cannot find ACROREAD.EXE <BR>
>This file is needed for opening files of type 'Zip File'&gt;&gt; <BR>

There are two quite different but related problems here.

First, ACROREAD.EXE is a very old version of Acrobat Reader (over 5
years old). It isn't called that any more, but something in your
system has remembered the old name.

Second, a "Zip file" is NOT a file that Acrobat has any connection
with.  Your system thinks so.  What probably happened is that the
system asked you "I have a ZIP file - what program shall I choose to
open it".  This sort of question seems like the computer is waiting
for an answer but you should NEVER guess. It usually means you don't
have the program you need.  For ZIP files such a program is WINZIP
(http://www.winzip.com/). Installing that might fix this issue - but
bear in mind it is NOT Acrobat Reader that will open the file.

>The problem must lie somewhere else. What about all the script errors appearing so frequently? Syntax, Object Expected,'insver is not an object', 'current Ver.o' is not an object, and so on... 

What about them?  Don't assume we know what you are talking about! I
don't get anything like that.  When do you get them?


Aandi Inston
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