Re: PDF files open in garbled text and symbols

Try this... right click a PDF file in Windows Explorer and choose
Properties. In the General tab, next to Opens With, click Change. The Adobe
Acrobat reader should be listed under Recommended Programs, or at the very
least under Other Programs.

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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" <herb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So, let me get this straight. You receive a .pdf attachment in an email.
You save it as a .pdf file to your hard drive. Then, you open Acrobat and
try to open that file, and you get some kind of error message?

The problem isn't related to Microsoft Word, so I think you should
probably try an Adobe support newsgroup.

If you're trying to open the .pdf file using Word, then, as Suzanne
indicated, Word does not have a converter for opening .pdf files. Garbled
text and symbols are exactly what you would expect.

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"Lon Axelrod" <LonAxelrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well. as a puter illiterate, I opened my Acrobat 7.0 reader but still
could
not read the attachments. Any other suggestions?

"Lon Axelrod" wrote:

I can't seem to get the correct language when I open my PDF files that
are
attachments to my e-mails. The text is garbled with numbers, symbols and
letters. I have set the defaults properly but it still happens no
matter
what language I elect.




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