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Article #6700Re: Launching PDF in Firefox yeilds "Could not launch Acrobat.".
From: Neal_Crook
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:21
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:21
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>Under Tools->Options->Applications, I have nothing for "Adobe" in my
content Type. Any ideas how to get it to populate in there?
Assuming you have acrobat installed, this worked for me:
1. start acrobat (for me this was Acrobat Reader 8 )
2. help -> repair acrobat reader installation
3. stop and restart firefox
now I have entries for pdf and everything works again
[for me, this problem was apparently caused by installing a program that *took the liberty* of installing an ancient version of Acrobat even though I already had 8 installed. After that happened, Firefox refused to open pdf files. I uninstalled the ancient version of acrobat, rebooted etc. etc. to no avail, then found this thread, and looked in Tools->Options->Applications to find nothing for "Adobe"]
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