Permissions? Well, this is where Mom stops.'Gosh! Is my hard drive full? How do I figure that out? Maybe My Computer:.Go ahead and see what you can do about it, user.' Instead, this error says (basically) 'something went wrong writing to a file, and I'm not sure what. I fired up the installer and was greeted with this error:Ĭertainly they could have figured out if the drive was full by asking the drive if it was full. I figured today I'd give Acrobat 8 a try on Vista since Ryan Gregg just released a PDF Preview Handler that uses Adobe's ActiveX SDK.Īcrobat 8 on Vista is supposed to be nice because you get Thumbnail support and Search-ability for PDFs. I had (fervently) lamented the slowness of Acrobat, and folks in the comments - including an Adobe employee - commented that Acrobat 8 was way better and way faster than before. A good error message takes work, and error handling seems to be one of those things that gets worked on last.Ī few weeks back I installed Tim Heuer's excellent Foxit PDF Preview Handler for Outlook 2007. The following localized languages are available.Įnglish (US and UK): AdbeRdr810_en_US.exeĬhinese Traditional: AdbeRdr810_zh_TW.If you're going to put up an error message, try to make it one that the user can DO something about, and try to make it unambiguous. For convenient purpose, you can simply download full version standalone setup installer for Adobe Reader 8.1, which can be used for distribution or offline install. If you want the full version installer for Adobe Reader 8.1, you have to use Firefox browser to get it (some version will also install through ADM). If you download Adobe Reader by using Internet Explorer, you will have to install Adobe Download Manager (ADM) which subsequently download the PDF reader installation setup files for you.

You can now download Adobe Reader from Get Adobe Reader web page.

One of the major feature in Adobe Reader 8.1 is enhanced support and compatibility for Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. Adobe Reader, formerly known as Adobe Acrobat Reader, is the most popular free software that lets users open, view, search, and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files with built-in security features. Adobe has updated the Adobe Reader from version 8.0 to version 8.1.

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