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Adobe Acrobat’s File Open or Save Dialogs are Slow or Hanging – Here is the Fix!

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Is your File Open or File Save/Save As dialog slow to open, or does it look like it’s hanging and never actually coming up? If you are running Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader version DC, the fix for this is … Continue reading →

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Using Custom Dynamic PDF Stamps in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader

Posted on November 14, 2015 by Karl Heinz Kremer

There is sometimes a misconception about how a custom dynamic stamp works in the PDF environment. Here is a short video that demonstrates how such a stamp gets applied: As you can see, the custom dialog that collects the data … Continue reading →

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“No Pages Selected To Print” Error

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

UPDATE: See Vishal’s comment in the comment section. Adobe is looking for help in debugging this problem. If you are running into this problem and want me to share your email address with Adobe, please get in touch with me … Continue reading →

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Link Trouble With Adobe Reader

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Spaces in filenames for files on your web server are a bad idea… No question about that, but sometimes you don’t have control over the files you want to link to. So let’s assume you create a PDF file that … Continue reading →

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Nastyware Claiming to be Adobe Reader

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Karl Heinz Kremer

I just received an interesting email, claiming to come from Adobe. This is the first time I’ve seen such a sneaky attempt to get me to download something to my computer that could do some pretty nasty stuff to me, … Continue reading →

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Nuance PDF Reader

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Nuance (the people behind OmniPage and Dragon Naturally Speaking and a bunch of other things) release a competitor to the free Adobe Reader – the free Nuance PDF Reader (http://www.nuance.com/imaging/products/pdf-reader.asp). The feature list looks very promising: Fill and save PDF … Continue reading →

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Teaching Adobe Reader a Few New Tricks

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Have you ever tried to fill a PDF form in Adobe Reader and to then save that filed document to your hard disk? Did it work? Chances are that it did not. Have you ever thought about why the Adobe … Continue reading →

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