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Adobe Acrobat Viewer
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This file contains last-minute product information and updates to the Adobe® Acrobat® Viewer documentation. For product usage and troubleshooting information, see the Adobe Acrobat Viewer Help file, which you can access from the "Help" pull down menu from within the viewer.

Known issues

All platforms
Windows
Macintosh
Unix
OS/2

All Platforms
  • Article threads are not supported in this release. [246433]
  • The Input field for the Open URL dialog cannot handle ftp that contains an escape sequence (i.e. ftp://host/my%20file.pdf). [305203]
  • Local printing on PDF files with images does not always generate consistent results. [311647]
  • Go To Next/Previous view navigation is not supported. [246114]
  • Printing to PDFWriter print device is not supported. [310638]
  • The "Document Information" dialog does not have an option to "List All Fonts" at once.
  • To get the list of all fonts, cycle through all of the pages and then view the font list. [312587]
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Windows
  • Microsoft VM - Local printing is limited to 300 DPI when using JDK 1.1.8, 72 DPI. [252476]
  • Microsoft VM - The InstallerAnywhere installer may not auto-detect the Microsoft VM if it is only the VM available on your Windows system. You might have to install JDK 1.1.8 for InstallerAnywhere to detect all the available VM’s. [308618]
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Macintosh
  • Due to limitation in MRJ 2.1, full-screen mode does not cover the entire visible screen. [310667]
  • local printing with MRJ 2.1 may crash the application. [310243]
  • Mouse pointer over bookmarks will cause them to flash. [303453]
  • MRJ 2.1 may not display "out of memory" error when opening a large file. [312254]
  • Text note windows flash when being dragged around. [309628]
  • The Open URL dialog does not support the "Save Password" option. [311160]
  • When the application is in the full-screen mode, opening the Find dialog will cause the dialog to be hidden behind the application. [313828]
  • Macintosh – With MRK 2.1, text notes window may be hidden behind the application when the application is in full-screen mode. [313347]
  • Macintosh and Jbindery - Opening the text notes window can cause other dialogs not to be focused. [313830]
  • Macintosh –Use the popup menu instead of pulldown menus in full screen mode. [314240]
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UNIX
  • Ctrl+L or the Escape key cannot restore from the full-screen mode. Use the context menu (i.e. right mouse menu) to recover from the full-screen mode. [308686]
  • Accelerator keys work sporadically, if at all, with JRE 1.1.8 on Solaris. [299692]
  • Printing does not work when using JDK 1.1.8 on Solaris. [270044]
  • To run InstallerAnywhere, the JDK 1.1.8’s binary path (i.e. /usr/jdk118/bin) must be in the search path on Solaris. [308205]
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OS/2
  • The install button on the InstallAnywhere applet page points to an invalid folder. Use the explicit download for OS/2 instead.
  • The Viewer does not automatically launch after install.
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