Sorry for the simplicity of this issue and help would be great. I had my work laptop wiped clean last week and I am now trying to rebuild it. I have XP service pack 3 on it and it is up and going. But in trying to get the adobe reader free software on it to view PDF's it keeps giving me an error message talking about an network interruption at the 59% mark. I have tried to download it on 3 different connections which leads me to believe that this is a computer problem and not a network problem.

Any help would be great

6/29/2010 1:41:36 PM

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.1/enu/AdbeRdr910_en_US.exe

Try that link - it's the redistributable package (to avoid using their download manager thing.)

6/30/2010 11:44:02 AM

^

6/30/2010 12:09:57 PM

Or you could try using a pdf viewer that isnt as bloated as my uncle clyde after thanksgiving.

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

6/30/2010 12:17:20 PM

foxit crashes all the time. use sumatra pdf instead http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html

6/30/2010 12:20:57 PM

zing!

6/30/2010 12:30:56 PM

http://www.ninite.com

6/30/2010 12:39:59 PM

You've wiped clean, no better time to go with something other than Acrobat Reader. I use foxit and I've never experienced crashes.

6/30/2010 1:24:23 PM

wwwebsurfer has given a link to an outdated version of Reader; the current one is 9.3.3

but anyway Foxit is a better idea, but I'm trying out PDF-Xchange to see whether that's even better (and yes it does come with a plugin)

[Edited on July 2, 2010 at 8:31 PM. Reason : I'd use Sumatra, but it doesn't come with a browser plugin

7/2/2010 8:30:52 PM

Second for PDF-XChange. I am converting my department (200+ computers) to it in the near future, because of Adobe's security problems.

7/2/2010 11:33:53 PM

Lately it seems as if the newest security issues plague all PDF readers, like the recent one about the /Launch function that can't just be removed (because it's in the PDF specification).

For example, Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader, and PDF-Xchange Viewer all updated on the same day (29 June 2010)...interestingly Kowalczyk hasn't released an update for Sumatra but maybe this issue didn't affect it.

Still I know for a fact that Adobe Reader implements every single feature of PDFs, and the ones not implemented by other readers have a high ratio of vulnerability to utility IMO; however I have noticed Adobe Reader becoming more stable recently...

7/3/2010 1:45:59 AM

^the idea is to get it installed, then run the stupid updater

And who are you with your intelligent comments

7/3/2010 2:32:17 AM

It's a lot easier to just install the latest edition right away and not rely on the updater until there is actually an update: http://get.adobe.com/reader/

I am from another corner of the Internets; some people here know who I am.

7/3/2010 3:18:44 AM

i've never had a problem with acrobat

of course, i have the full version... but still

7/3/2010 2:55:00 PM

^ I've had users that have gotten infections from malware PDFs. I just wish there were an easier way to manage updates to Acrobat and Reader. Adobe goes out of their way to make that stuff unreasonably hard to manage.

7/3/2010 3:05:29 PM

I don't know any PDF reader that can be managed remotely; I'll be glad if Microsoft makes its own PDF reader for Windows 8, along the same lines as Mac OS X Preview, which would then be easily managed via Microsoft Update or WSUS.

[Edited on July 3, 2010 at 4:38 PM. Reason : and yes, lots of malware now goes through PDFs

7/3/2010 4:37:53 PM

The closest thing is that Adobe and a few others (like PDF-XChange) offer up their stuff in MSIs. But that's the problem... you have to customize the shit out of them to remove the annoying stuff like autoupdates, Acrobat.com, and other nonsense. And Adobe goes out of their way to bury their MSI offerings, for some absurd reason.

7/3/2010 5:18:06 PM