Re: PDF files open in garbled text and symbols

Took the words right out of my mouth...

<terryfarrell@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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No, Jay meant Windows Explorer. That's where ALL your folders and files
are stored. The My Documents is a just a (special) folder in Windows
Explorer. You must be confusing Internet Explorer with Windows Explorer.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/


"Lon Axelrod" <LonAxelrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jay; Thanks so very much. The only problem was that you suggested that I
go
to Windows Explorer. You meant "My documents" at least that is where I
found
the "Folder Options" at Tools. It corrected my problem. Thanks so very
much.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

In Windows Explorer, return to the Tools > Folder Options dialog.
Click the File Types tab. Select PDF from the list of extensions. In
the lower half of the dialog, under "Details for 'PDF' extension",
click the Change button. This opens another dialog.

In this second dialog, if you see Adobe Reader 7.0 in the list (it
should be under "Recommended Programs" but you might have to scroll
down into the "Other Programs" list), click it. If you don't see it in
the list, click the Browse button and find the Adobe Reader program --
probably C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe,
unless you chose to install it somewhere else (or maybe it isn't
really installed properly even though you believe you reinstalled it).

Make sure the box is checked for "Always use the selected program to
open this kind of file" and click OK in each dialog.

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On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:54:02 -0800, Lon Axelrod
<LonAxelrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That last response did'nt help so let me restate the problem. When I
attempt
to open a pdf attachment from my e-mail, the box that opens is all
numbers,
letters and symbols. No matter what selection I make from the 3
choices,
MS-DOS, Wnidows (Default) or "other encoding" the same thing happens. I
uninstalled Abobe and reinsalled Adobe 7.0.8 and still have the same
problem.
I have to right-click the attachment and save it to MY DOCUMENTS the
right-click to "Open with Adobe". At that juncture it opens normally.

Somehow, I must have messed-up the file association and can't get it
back to
where it was. I got some info from Microsoft on "How to change file
associations in Windows XP but when I follow their instructions by
going to
TOOLS, FOLDER OPTIONS, VIEW and clear the "Hide extensions files for
known
file types" and click "Open with" the Adobe program is not listed. Any
other
ideas?

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

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.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
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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.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
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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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