Problem opening pdf-files

Hello,

in some folders, when trying to open a pdf file by clicking on its
name, a message appears: File does not start with "%PDF-". Acrobat
closes again, without displaying the document. However, this does not
happen in Explorer View! On inspection, the document is ok and starts
with %pdf. If the file is copied into another document library or
another folder, this does not happen. pdf-documents in other libraries
or folders can be opened without any problem.

Has anybody a tip on how to correct this? We have been looking into the
View definitions, but could not find any differences to other libs
which work fine.

Grateful for any help,
David

Mike
Mon Jan 17 23:09:44 CST 2005

Do you have non-standard characters in the name of the PDF files?

There is a problem with those (search the WSS FAQ with I think "Spanish").

If my memory is right the problem is solved by a Acrobat Reader upgrade, but
look there.

(An upgrade might help in any case - probably better with an uninstall first
just in case there is something wrong with your Reader copy)

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
Please post questions to the newsgroup only.


"David Beraha" <bea@grs.de> wrote in message
news:%23rPIbwK$EHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> in some folders, when trying to open a pdf file by clicking on its
> name, a message appears: File does not start with "%PDF-". Acrobat
> closes again, without displaying the document. However, this does not
> happen in Explorer View! On inspection, the document is ok and starts
> with %pdf. If the file is copied into another document library or
> another folder, this does not happen. pdf-documents in other libraries
> or folders can be opened without any problem.
>
> Has anybody a tip on how to correct this? We have been looking into the
> View definitions, but could not find any differences to other libs
> which work fine.
>
> Grateful for any help,
> David
>
>
>

Serge
Tue Jan 18 08:51:54 CST 2005

If you have Acrobat Reader on your machine, you can modify the Reader so
it will not open the document in a browser. Then you will be able to open
PDF wich have non-standard characters in the name .

Serge

"Mike Walsh" <englantilainen@hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
OqwLzvR$EHA.3908@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Do you have non-standard characters in the name of the PDF files?
>
> There is a problem with those (search the WSS FAQ with I think "Spanish").
>
> If my memory is right the problem is solved by a Acrobat Reader upgrade,
> but
> look there.
>
> (An upgrade might help in any case - probably better with an uninstall
> first
> just in case there is something wrong with your Reader copy)
>
> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
> Please post questions to the newsgroup only.
>
>
> "David Beraha" <bea@grs.de> wrote in message
> news:%23rPIbwK$EHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> in some folders, when trying to open a pdf file by clicking on its
>> name, a message appears: File does not start with "%PDF-". Acrobat
>> closes again, without displaying the document. However, this does not
>> happen in Explorer View! On inspection, the document is ok and starts
>> with %pdf. If the file is copied into another document library or
>> another folder, this does not happen. pdf-documents in other libraries
>> or folders can be opened without any problem.
>>
>> Has anybody a tip on how to correct this? We have been looking into the
>> View definitions, but could not find any differences to other libs
>> which work fine.
>>
>> Grateful for any help,
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>
>

Mike
Tue Jan 18 10:13:07 CST 2005

Thanks Serge,

http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=308
(III.93) is the foreign characters FAQ posting
and it also mentions that there is no problem if you open the file in
Acrobat rather than in the browser.

But between us we saved him looking for the FAQ item (which was on the
second page of "pdf" searches).

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland (now at home with time to look)

"Serge Tremblay" <nospam@pasdepam.com> wrote in message
news:eHAh30W$EHA.3988@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> If you have Acrobat Reader on your machine, you can modify the Reader
so
> it will not open the document in a browser. Then you will be able to open
> PDF wich have non-standard characters in the name .
>
> Serge
>
> "Mike Walsh" <englantilainen@hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
> OqwLzvR$EHA.3908@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Do you have non-standard characters in the name of the PDF files?
> >
> > There is a problem with those (search the WSS FAQ with I think
"Spanish").
> >
> > If my memory is right the problem is solved by a Acrobat Reader upgrade,
> > but
> > look there.
> >
> > (An upgrade might help in any case - probably better with an uninstall
> > first
> > just in case there is something wrong with your Reader copy)
> >
> > Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> > WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
> > Please post questions to the newsgroup only.
> >
> >
> > "David Beraha" <bea@grs.de> wrote in message
> > news:%23rPIbwK$EHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> in some folders, when trying to open a pdf file by clicking on its
> >> name, a message appears: File does not start with "%PDF-". Acrobat
> >> closes again, without displaying the document. However, this does not
> >> happen in Explorer View! On inspection, the document is ok and starts
> >> with %pdf. If the file is copied into another document library or
> >> another folder, this does not happen. pdf-documents in other libraries
> >> or folders can be opened without any problem.
> >>
> >> Has anybody a tip on how to correct this? We have been looking into the
> >> View definitions, but could not find any differences to other libs
> >> which work fine.
> >>
> >> Grateful for any help,
> >> David
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

David
Tue Jan 18 10:18:40 CST 2005

Thanks a lot. The file name is ok, but the path contains non-standard
characters (German). Acrobat Reader 7.0 works ok, so we have to upgrade
all our users. Hard to see for us, since in Sharepoint V1 everything
worked fine ...

Thanks again,
David



Serge Tremblay wrote:

> If you have Acrobat Reader on your machine, you can modify the
> Reader so it will not open the document in a browser. Then you will
> be able to open PDF wich have non-standard characters in the name .
>
> Serge
>
> "Mike Walsh" <englantilainen@hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de
> news: OqwLzvR$EHA.3908@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Do you have non-standard characters in the name of the PDF files?
> >
> > There is a problem with those (search the WSS FAQ with I think
> > "Spanish").
> >
> > If my memory is right the problem is solved by a Acrobat Reader
> > upgrade, but
> > look there.
> >
> > (An upgrade might help in any case - probably better with an
> > uninstall first
> > just in case there is something wrong with your Reader copy)
> >
> > Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> > WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
> > Please post questions to the newsgroup only.
> >
> >
> > "David Beraha" <bea@grs.de> wrote in message
> > news:%23rPIbwK$EHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> >> Hello,
> > >
> >> in some folders, when trying to open a pdf file by clicking on its
> >> name, a message appears: File does not start with "%PDF-". Acrobat
> >> closes again, without displaying the document. However, this does
> not >> happen in Explorer View! On inspection, the document is ok and
> starts >> with %pdf. If the file is copied into another document
> library or >> another folder, this does not happen. pdf-documents in
> other libraries >> or folders can be opened without any problem.
> > >
> >> Has anybody a tip on how to correct this? We have been looking
> into the >> View definitions, but could not find any differences to
> other libs >> which work fine.
> > >
> >> Grateful for any help,
> >> David
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >