| Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Toni (Googler) | 3/4/10 5:13 PM | Hi everyone, We know there are a number of you still experiencing issues with not being able to view PDF files using Google Chrome. In an effort to parse the different issues out, and identify the various root causes, we’d appreciate it if you could |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | bronsonelliott | 3/4/10 7:16 PM | 1. A message stating "The Adobe Acrobat/Reader that is running can not be used to view PDF files in a Web Browser. Please exit Adobe Acrobat/Reader and exit your Web Browser and try again." After clicking, "OK" the browser window goes blank. 2. htt |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | ganesa | 3/5/10 12:52 AM | I am using foxit pdf reader and it works flawlessly with chrome. but with adobe pdf installed i find problems.. i concur that problem lies with adobe pdf/plugin and not chrome as such. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | zom | 3/6/10 2:35 AM | A blank page with the URL of the pdf page in the address bar. Source code of the blank page: <html><body marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" bgcolor="rgb(38,38,38)"><embed width="100%" height="100%" name="plugin" src="http://partners.adobe.com/public/d |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | penguinfan | 3/7/10 9:09 AM | 1 dark grey window - nothing in it. No change on resize 2 http://www.opto22.com/documents/0859_Solid_State_Relays_data_sheet.pdf 3 running 5.0.307.11 beta - was on ?4.0.249.? No difference on the newer version 4 adobe reader 9.3.1 only. Running g |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | yuriry | 3/7/10 10:00 AM | Tony, Could you please try the following steps and report us back if Chrome browser displays PDF files: 1) Go to http://www.ubuntu.com/, download the latest version and install it on your computer 2) Go to http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linu |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | cmroanirgo | 3/7/10 10:48 PM | I think for a lot of us, the problem also stems from the inability for chrome to open an external program based upon mime-type. For me, the issue is that I _want_ an external application opened (in my case Foxit Reader), but not in the browser window |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | karmicfan | 3/7/10 11:55 PM | same issue as zom. using ubuntu karmic 9.10 with adobe. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | nalfeindo | 3/8/10 7:08 AM | Heya, I just wanted to report a successful case: I had the same problem as everyone. Chrome would open a blank tab and display an error message in place of required pdf file. In my case it appeared that the problem was caused by an overlap between |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Toni (Googler) | 3/8/10 5:03 PM | @Linux users - Thanks for all the good information! There's actually a parallel conversation in the below thread that offers some suggestions and information specific to trouble with PDFs in Linux. To avoid confusion and keep different issues organiz |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Noords | 3/8/10 5:14 PM | 1. A message stating "The Adobe Acrobat/Reader that is running can not be used to view PDF files in a Web Browser. Please exit Adobe Acrobat/Reader and exit your Web Browser and try again." After clicking, "OK" the browser window goes blank. (THE SA |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | bronsonelliott | 3/8/10 5:24 PM | @Toni 1. Adobe Acrobat File name: nppdf32.dll Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/pdf Acrobat Portable Document Format pdf Yes application/vnd.adob |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | penguinfan | 3/9/10 2:25 PM | For linux users - on the other thread jenuths (20 Feb) has cracked for me. Install 1.13.1 (or later) of mozplugger, remove nppdf.so (so it's not seen on chrome:plugins), and then preview images start working. I suspect that /etc/mozplugerrc will let |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Toni (Googler) | 3/9/10 7:17 PM | @Noords - Thanks for your answers! Can you also provide the following info? |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | ms.dsk | 3/10/10 9:14 AM | Thank you for the help. Tried a couple of your fixes, and--although I still get an error message--I now can download PDFs on Google Chrome. Still not as instantaneously seamless as one would like: 1. When attempting to download a PDF in Google Chrom |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | danhanks | 3/10/10 9:23 AM | Hi all, Thanks to @nalfeindo's information, PDFs are now opening for me in Chrome. Yay! I had Acrobat Pro Extended 9.3.1 installed along with Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 on Windows XP. I uninstalled Acrobat 8.1.2, then rebooted. Initially after I rebooted |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | teamroccomon | 3/10/10 10:38 PM | Window XP 2002 Chrome 4.1.249.1030 Firefox 3.6 I mentioned this issue (PDF's and Java applets) in another forum question regarding Facebook. I was using Firefox 3.6 without issue but, when I converted to Chrome I found that neither Adobe reader for |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | BigBaaadBob | 3/13/10 8:11 AM | I know you say you want Linux stuff in that other thread, but I don't see any indication that anyone who can do anything about the problem is looking at that thread. So here is some Linux info. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | BigBaaadBob | 3/13/10 8:45 AM | And the relevant stuff from the debug log: $ google-chrome --debug-plugin-loading --log-level=0 --enable-logging=stderr [...] [10453:10453:69655909712:INFO:/usr/local/google/b/slave/chrome-official-linux-64/build/src/chrome/common/chrome_plugin_lib. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | teamroccomon | 3/13/10 6:43 PM | Another thought.......Foxit PDF software works just fine inplace of Adobe reader and it seems to load pages faster as well. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | eafh59 | 3/17/10 7:51 PM | Just started using Chrome this week (Firefox doesn't play nice with Windows 7) Like most here, I discovered that Chrome wasn't opening pdfs, even though Adobe Reader is on my PC and worked fine as a stand-a-lone, with Firefox and even IE. Anyway, al |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | rory.slegtenhorst | 3/18/10 1:36 AM | Dear Thread, A response on a working PDF integration in my Chrome. I primarily use Chrome from a USB stick as a portable application. By copying the latest 'nppdf32.dll' into the Plugins directory, I have been able to view PDF documents anytime, an |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | sigosling | 3/18/10 5:08 AM | Consistently, PDFs can never load from http://www.sciencedirect.com and it can result in Chrome hanging. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | teamroccomon | 3/18/10 4:34 PM | I just went to the website your mentioned, (http://www.sciencedirect.com) and downloaded a "preview" article with both Adobe and Foxit pdf readers, without any issues from either reader. Foxit downloads pages faster but, sometimes it doesn't size pages cor |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | chrisvanlang | 3/18/10 5:05 PM | As mentioned for the past year: http://www.sciencedirect.com never works and causes Chrome to crash. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | teamroccomon | 3/18/10 6:48 PM | Windows XP 2002 Chrome 4.1.249.1036 As I mentioned in a prior post, the website in mention (http://www.sciencedirect.com) loads and prints pdf pages just fine. Try the following link and you should get a pdf of an article preview page. (Sorry, I am not g |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | adobe problem | 3/27/10 5:21 AM | 1. What happens instead when you try to view the PDF? Is there a blank page or an error? An error message with a black/blank page. 2. Do you have an example URL where you’re consistently having trouble loading a PDF? No, it happened every time. 3. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | iggy23 | 3/27/10 12:43 PM | Latest Chrome Beta 5, latest Adobe Reader, Windows Vista up-to-date. Whenever I click on a pdf, Chrome will fire up the PDF reader in the window - I get the Adobe toolbar - but it never displays the pdf. Spinning wheel time. I have to click the refr |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | onemorechromeuser | 3/29/10 5:42 PM | i tried most of the solutions posted, and none worked. then i figured it was probably some extension of chrome, and true enough, i removed the pdf viewer and the google doc extension and problem solved |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Heran | 3/30/10 2:54 AM | teamroccomon: For http://sciencedirect.com, it works fine for PREVIEW, but if you try to open the full article it won't work! See more discussions here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=153fd625e56fe41c&hl=en. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | amauryfa | 3/30/10 11:11 AM | I get a blank page very often (always?) when viewing PDF on Windows. The workaround is always the same: I double-click on the title bar to maximize (or un-maximize) the Chrome window, and the PDF content appears! Then I double-click again to get back |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | spavett | 3/31/10 2:54 PM | Chrome frame blank - frame doesn't redraw on resize |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | edw603 | 4/3/10 12:30 PM | 1. A blank screen and Acrobat opens with a pop up window saying 'cannot use adobe reader to view pdf in your web browser. click ok or cancel.' If I click cancel the PDF does open in the browser but before I installed windows 7 acrobat never opened at |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | meredith1124 | 4/5/10 10:51 AM | This fixed my problem perfectly! Thank you. 1. I removed Reader since I have Adobe Pro. 2. I checked the Preferences under edit. 3. I restarted 4. I did a repair on Pro 5. I restarted again. Works just as it should. Many thanks for the excellent |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | fatihgsen | 4/12/10 9:22 PM | I have latest version of Chrome 4.x.x.x and the PDF files works fine for me except the http://sciencedirect.com. As already mentioned above Chrome hangs when trying to open a PDF link from http://sciencedirect.com. It even can not load the page correctly. It show |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | teamroccomon | 4/13/10 1:24 PM | Chrome 5.0.342.9 Windows XP 2002 Maybe I am just lucky but as mentioned in an earlier post, I just can't reproduce the issue some of you are having with http://www.sciencedirect.com. The attached link (below) works just fine, it is a PDF review of an arti |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | aslibomberman | 4/14/10 2:23 AM | hey i browsed thru all those contents dedicatedly but finally .. the culprit adobe came iteself to rescue.... http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405461.html it simply asked to repair whatever version (reader 9.0 /acrobat ) from help menu .. and mos |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | spavett | 4/15/10 4:16 AM | Further to my recent post here are two publicly available PDF links, one which loads in Chrome: http://dieterhelm.co.uk/sites/default/files/Options_future_Nov_09_PN.pdf and one which doesn't: http://economistsview.typepad.com/files/session-3---st |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | teamroccomon | 4/15/10 1:18 PM | Have you tried to run the "repair" option from Adobe help menu?? I have tried both of the links you posted and both open just fine for me. Perhaps there is a bug that the "repair" option can fix for you. Also, have you checked for current updates? |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Alex_Ford | 4/16/10 4:23 AM | Un-installing reader and re-installing it fixed it for me. Repair/update did not. A nice clear set of instructions on how to fix this PDF problem - well done Google! |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | spavett | 4/16/10 5:03 AM | I just now un-installed the reader and reinstalled it but I still can't load http://economistsview.typepad.com/files/session-3---stiglitz_agenda_for_reform.pdf in chrome. The plug-in seems to work fine in other browsers I have installed and I have do |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | teamroccomon | 4/16/10 1:36 PM | Adobe Reader 9.3 Foxit Reader 3.2 spavett.. I don't think upgrading to Chrome 5 will change the problem you are having. I would be interested if you have downloaded and installed Foxit PDF Reader from http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/ ? I |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | r4114r | 4/23/10 12:44 PM | Using Foxit on desktop, PDF XChange viewer on notebook, both work flawlessly. Have only had one page not open properly, refreshed and opened |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | NimaM | 4/26/10 4:02 PM | 1. I get a blank dialog box (like an error, but no message). Disable re-enable checkbox on step 7 fixed my issue. 2. Any google doc I try to print that goes through PDF conversion 3. Its been the latest beta 5.0.342.9. 4. Adobe reader 9.3.2 5. Yep 6. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Triciaflowers | 4/27/10 10:22 AM | I tried everything found in these forums and it didn't work. Try this link which finally resolved the issue for me: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nnbmlagghjjcbdhgmkedmbmedengocbn |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | brandyrox | 4/27/10 5:22 PM | After reading all the comments, having the same problem "The Adobe Acrobat/Reader that is running can not be used to view PDF files in a Web Browser. Please exit Adobe Acrobat/Reader and exit your Web Browser and try again." I just uninstalled adobe |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | interwebcomp | 5/6/10 3:20 PM | I am having a slightly different issue --- if I use google chrome to GENERATE a new PDF file using the Print to Adobe PDF distiller printer icon, I get a semi-blank http://fedex.com shipping label... part of the label has text, but the main part that is a g |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vzaliva | 5/10/10 1:42 PM | it downloads file and saves to disk |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | chepi | 5/10/10 4:44 PM | Whenever I try to open a .pdf file, a new, blank tab opens and the .pdf never does. * Operating system-Windows XP Professional SP3 * Version of Google Chrome that you're using - 4.1.249.1064 * Version of Shockwave Player and Adobe Flash player that |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | rickording | 5/11/10 7:04 PM | Currently using Safari Version 4.0.5 (5531.22.7). I am having the same issues. I scan a file to pdf then save it to a folder. I then upload the file to google docs with the convert box checked and it converts to some doc format that will not displ |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | xxyyzz | 5/19/10 7:14 PM | SUMMARY: -- I have the "resize" problem, where PDF files only display if the window is resized after loading the PDF. -- Problem ONLY occurs when connected to the internet through corporate proxy at work (PDFs load fine at home). -- Running the lates |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | djforcefield | 5/26/10 7:20 PM | Hilarious. All this jibber jabber back and forth with the Google guy repeating questions ad-nauseum: "do you have Acrobat Reader installed? which version? is your computer turned on? do you own a computer?" Latest versions of Chrome and Acro Pro do |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | HNDC | 5/26/10 10:28 PM | 1. A blank page is displayed with URL in the address bar. 2.http://www.ishafoundation.org/news/columns/Mystic-Mantra/2010/Deccan-10May2010.pdf 3.I have version 5.0.375.55 4.Adobe Reader 9.3 5.Yes 6.Done 7.Done http://8.NA 9.Done 10. I am using Windows Vis |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Triciaflowers | 5/27/10 6:16 AM | I disagree with djforcefield. If you see my post from above, I use Chrome, and I am able to open PDF's after using the link I previously posted. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | xxyyzz | 5/27/10 2:05 PM | I'm able to open PDFs as well, when I'm connected to my home network, so clearly it works in some situations. Just as clearly, it's broken in other situations. I cannot open PDFs (without resizing the browser window every time), if I'm connected to |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | xxyyzz | 5/27/10 2:11 PM | Note to Triciaflowers: The link you posted is for a plugin that displays PDFs and Powerpoint docs *in Google Docs*. It is not a native PDF plugin and does not provide full PDF (or Powerpoint) functionality. It requires a Google account, and probab |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | andriydemydenko | 5/28/10 8:43 AM | downgrading to Acrobat reader 9.1 resolve the problem, I can see pdf in Google docs and download pdf. Vista 32 |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | erman14 | 5/28/10 2:03 PM | If you choose to use PDF-XChange Viewer, (freeware), for viewing and marking up pdf files, this problem can be solved by disabling Acrobat plug-in. To disable select: Customize and control Google Chrome > Options > Under the Hood > Content Settings > |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | sandperson | 5/28/10 3:15 PM | Deleted previous latest version of adobe and then it worked. Think the problem is something to do with conflict if there's more than one version of adobe reader. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | edwardjify | 5/31/10 9:49 PM | Please help me visit my favourit page http://www.facebook.com. From husa...@hotmail.com |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | milsystems | 6/2/10 8:33 AM | Before I read the entire thread her, my question is simple: Will I ever be able to get PDFs to open without intervention in the following environment?: Windows 7 (32 bit) Acrobat Professional 8.1.3 Google Chrome 4.1.249.1064 (45376) Please feel fr |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Moohoo | 6/2/10 12:49 PM | PDF opens with IE 8 but not Chrome. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | browniezz | 6/6/10 11:15 AM | Hey, I have the same kind of problem but not exactly. When I go to certain websites the menu bar won't show up or the icons and letters in little boxes disappear. When I go to google the suggestions disappear! this is so annoying and the worst part I |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | ChristopherBarnette | 6/7/10 9:36 AM | I was having this problem and opened about:plugins as instructed above. I noticed I had two entries for Adobe Acrobat listed: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adobe Ac |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | choco_lates | 6/9/10 5:02 AM | Hi all, Just wanted to post this answer in case it helps other people. I have Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro installed a month ago and previously had Adobe Reader 8 (which I uninstalled before going to 9 Pro). For some reason today I got this pop-up message a |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | gordwait | 6/10/10 11:33 AM | I fixed my Win XP acrobat reader vs chrome problem - turns out I had both Acrobat Reader 8 and 9 installed. I simply deleted the Acrobat Reader 8 folder, and restarted chrome. Note you may want to uninstall rather than brute force delete Acrobat 8. I |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | shannyz | 6/11/10 8:37 AM | This worked for me: Here's how I solved this problem (with Acrobat 9.0 Pro on Windows XP) on my system: 1. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat\Browser 2. Copy the file "nppdf32.dll" 3. Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\<your |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | birthzone | 6/17/10 9:57 AM | Windows XP SP3 |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | jules7 | 6/17/10 11:14 AM | I read a lot of PDF's and I have been struggling with this issue from the day I started using chrome about a year ago. I figured "this is still a new browser so they will fix it sooner or later" but here I am using Chrome 5.0 and still it does not wo |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | whitehairdude | 6/19/10 3:15 PM | Something that worked for me. I have to close all my adobe readers on everything. Then, re-open the pdf page on chrome by re-freshing it. Otherwise, it appears the same error message that everyone has been repeating. Inside, the blank screen missin |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Evance | 6/23/10 2:20 PM | Hi everyone, We've been working hard on providing an integrated PDF viewing experience in Google Chrome, and have already made this feature available on the Developer channel for Windows and Mac. Please be patient before this feature makes it to the |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | nachumk | 7/5/10 11:32 AM | Hi, I'm having a slightly different PDF issue. Most PDFs open, but they are somewhat mangled. I know this b/c I save the file to disk and compare it with the same PDF saved to disk from IE. I can see that certain bytes have been converted to 0xD 0xA |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Bluewolf2072 | 7/6/10 9:15 PM | First Off ~ I am not uninstalling something that works fine in FireFox, Opera, Safari and IE. Today was the first time I had an issue with PDF's not opening in Google Chrome. Here is one of the PDF's that will not open correctly in Chrome http://ww |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | pmcbride | 7/8/10 10:49 AM | WinXP SP3, (full) Acrobat 8.2.3, Chrome developer version: 6.0.453.1 (Official Build 51400) dev. Received error of: "There was an error processing the page. There was a problem reading this document (135)". Tried same link in FF 3.6.6 - worked. D |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | saratoga2 | 7/10/10 12:57 PM | Same chrome build, same OS, but with Acrobat Reader 9.3.3 and I get exactly the same error. It seems random, sometimes the first page fails to render, sometimes the second or third. Rarely do I get further then that. IE and FF work fine. Didn't h |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | saratoga2 | 7/10/10 9:37 PM | Dropping back to Acrobat Reader 9.2 fixed this issue on both my machines, so i guess Adobe just broke something. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | GeerVc | 7/11/10 10:18 PM | Is there no way, just like in FireFox, to specify which application you want to call with certain file type extensions? I don't want at all to open my PDF files into whatever browser (not even in FF), I want to open the application itself (in my cas |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | O.G.W. | 7/13/10 4:46 PM | Problem Link: https://www.kickball.com/files/KICKBALL_OFFICIAL_RULES_2010.pdf (works fine in IE & Firefox) Error occurs when you scroll down and certain pages try to display. Messed up graphics, blank sections. Error message: "An error exists on th |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | mr.bulow | 7/14/10 11:30 AM | I have the latest stable Chrome 5.x and the latest Adobe Reader 9.x running on Win 7 Pro, 64-bit. Usually the first page of the PDF displays, but then I am told that errors exist on page and may not be displayed properly. It used to be that if I re |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | stoevap | 7/15/10 3:58 AM | It looks as if the file is downloaded, but the pages are empty. The error is 'not sufficient data for an image'. The same PDF opens perfectly in Explorer, which is a pain, as I prefer using Chrome. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | MFL | 7/15/10 9:01 AM | Windows XP - Adobe Reader 9.3.3 repaired and configured properly for browser. No problems in Firefox/ At http://support.vzw.com/clc/index.html?newphone=1&lid=//global//support//phones+and+devices, after I hit the pdf users guide link, the guide pag |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Tom_uw | 7/15/10 11:40 AM | For roughly the two weeks, I have been unable to get most PDF's to download into Chrome. I have had two types of errors, both of which are described by others in the list. I have worked around this problem by using IE to download the PDF's but this i |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | bcnu | 7/16/10 7:24 AM | I had problems with PDF documents in Chrome until installing Chrome 5. Everything worked then until the next automatic update arrived from Adobe, when the problems reappeared. Here are the details - Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 Google Chrome 5.0.37 |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | larune | 7/17/10 3:23 AM | this pdf document doesn't display in chrome, but seems fine in ir and firefox: http://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/media/Park_and_Ride_Leaflet_May_2010.pdf I hame checked I have latest versions of chrome and adobe. hopefully you can resolve? |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Pedz | 7/18/10 12:06 AM | -Sometimes part of the document loads and then displays error message -"There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (107)." -"There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (135). |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | ctctct | 7/18/10 12:13 PM | Chrome 5.0.375.99 (Official Build 51029) Adobe Reader 9.3.3 in use. Full Acrobat is not installed on this machine. Windows 7 Home Premium. Cannot open http://www.tmrs.org/down/pubs/lS_Fall09.pdf with Chrome. IE8 opens it fine. Although the top of th |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | furiono | 7/19/10 2:37 PM | 1. Usually the first page of the document loads and then displays error message, the error message varies. Minus the font errors, the error(s) will not occur until I scroll down to the bottom of the first page. Some examples below; "There was an erro |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | deep_blu | 7/20/10 3:30 PM | I was having an issue displaying pdfs in chrome but not firefox. I was receiving error msgs when I tried to scroll down. I turned off the allow fast web view and that allowed the entire doc to be viewed. It's slower initially while it downloads but |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | tariqaziz | 7/21/10 2:38 AM | PDF files can't open all the time and always give some errors. I try to uninstall it and install it many time but still the problem exists. Even these pdf files are always accurately open in all other browsers. I think I need to permanently uninstall |
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| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Ohnoezitasploded | 7/21/10 9:12 AM | I have this problem in Google Chrome with Acrobat 9.3.3 on Windows XP (latest version of each/all updates applied). I have tried all of the fixes above. The message text is: "An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page properly. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Bill15203 | 7/21/10 10:08 AM | I am having the same problem after all remedies suggested have made no difference. I have the problem using Acrobat 9.3.3 or Reader 9.3.3 both with all updates applied. Running Windows XP SP3 with all patches and Chrome 5.00.375.99. No problem wit |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | deep_blu | 7/21/10 11:26 AM | I tried the 2 links to the PDFs that failed for furiono and they worked for me.The one document was 2208 pages, the other 2 pages. I also did the newsletter for kjpurscel and it also worked for me. I had turned off the allow fast web view in adobe re |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Bill15203 | 7/21/10 11:51 AM | This worked on my system as well (Windows XP SP3, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.3, latest Chrome). I now have Adobe Internet preferences 'Display PDF in browser' enabled and 'Allow fast web view' disabled. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | McAden | 7/21/10 12:15 PM | Chrome: 5.0.375.99 Adobe Reader: 9.3.3 Having problems with "There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (110)." and "An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly. Please contact t |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | ap86 | 7/22/10 10:53 AM | I'm getting this 'Aw, Snap!' page (Google Chrome crash window) every 2 seconds when I open a new tab or a new window or even when i try to open a website! I tried to uninstall and reinstall the Google Chrome, but still the problem exists. What is goi |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | suncodeX | 7/23/10 1:14 AM | I've version 6.0.472 for Fedora and since today I am getting "missing plugin" (I've enabled the plugin), when I want to read an integrated pdf on a website. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | REZ1962 | 7/23/10 7:39 AM | 1.What happens instead when you try to view the PDF? PDF opens displaying first page. When I scrol to the next page an error message pops up. Adobe Reader – There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (107). The |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | dcsleeps | 7/23/10 3:55 PM | Error upon reaching a certain point in the document (e.g. page 4) - "An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly. Please contact the person who created the PDF document to correct the problem." Moving further through the |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | MrTracey | 7/24/10 10:44 AM | I'm having (or was having) the same problem as many others : "There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (110)." and |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | joons | 7/25/10 9:27 AM | 4 months and counting we've been inflicted - come on Google WAKE UP! I uninstalled/reinstalled reader, no don't have full adobe. tried all the other useless "advice" on this thread - just fix the effing thing! Works in IE8, FF so no excuses All pdfs |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | TheSMan5 | 7/25/10 3:01 PM | Method #7 works (only have Acrobat as a PDF viewer now), just one minor problem. When I close a pdf that pops up another window, I come onto a blank webpage. However, simply clicking back solves this problem, so no big worries. I'm glad to see I w |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | joanna.hofmann | 7/25/10 7:07 PM | I 'fixed' this problem by updating Firefox with the latest acrobat reader. This installs the latest versions of all of the plugins, and affects Chrome's performance as well. I also disabled Acrobat pro as my default reader (not sure if this was rel |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | SearchQs | 7/25/10 10:50 PM | 1. Error message displays: "There was an error processing this page. There was a problem reading this document (110). 2. http://www.travelweekly.com.au/dirplus/images/travelweekly/TravelTodayPDF/26_07_2010.pdf 3. Google Chrome is up to date (5.0.375 |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | alightedme | 7/26/10 3:35 AM | I got a workaround this issue. I have Acrobat reader 9.3.3 installed and Acrobat 5.0 pro too. 1. First, I made Acrobat 9.3.3 as a default reader on my system 2. Then go to Acrobat 5.0 edit-> prefs-> options. Uncheck view PDF in browser and fast web |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | nascarfan999 | 7/26/10 12:10 PM | 1. A variety of error messages (seemingly random). 2. Happens to 60-75% of PDFs. 3. Running version 5.0.375.99 (freshly installed within last 5 days) 4. Adobe Reader 9.3.3 5. Just installed within last few days. 6. Have not tried to uninstall and rei |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | nponopro | 7/26/10 2:56 PM | Problem fixed by Step 9: Go to Help > Repair Acrobat Installation or Help > Repair Adobe Reader Installation 1. Happened with some PDFs only, notably large ones. The same PDFs displayed correctly in IE 8 and FF 3.6. I sometimes got a succession of e |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Bill15203 | 7/26/10 3:19 PM | Did the same exact process. This did not fix the problem for me for any pdf. Running Adobe Acrobat Standard 9.3.3 all updates, Windows XP SP3 all patches and Chrome 5.0.375.99. The only thing that consistently works is to disable 'Display PDF in B |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | mzeemzeenz | 7/27/10 2:22 AM | 1. A page or two downloads usually; then error message: 'An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly. Please contact the person who created the pdf document to correct the problem.' 2. Almost invariably happens from any |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | jorenko | 7/27/10 7:47 AM | 1. First page displays fine, then error messages pop up when scrolling, and some information is garbled or missing 2. Happens on all multi-page PFDs -- choose one 3. no 4. Adobe Reader 9.3.3 5. yes 6. I've only ever had this version 7. no help here, |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | getterdun | 7/28/10 9:49 AM | I just want to say that I had a problem opening pdf files in Chrome that I was just able to fix, after reviewing the comments above. I have Windows 7. I changed the file association for the Adobe files from Reader to Acrobat (I have both installed) |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | nponopro | 7/28/10 10:39 AM | Follow up to 7/27/10 comment above, in which I stated: "Problem fixed by Step 9: Go to Help > Repair Acrobat Installation or Help > Repair Adobe Reader Installation." The fix was fleeting. As of today, I am back to having problems displaying PDFs (w |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Tom_uw | 7/28/10 4:50 PM | Is anybody from Google actually paying attention to this thread or doing anything about this problem? There are months worth of posts but no responses. Is anyone listening? |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Viola29 | 7/28/10 8:25 PM | For Windows Vista Go to Control Panel-Uninstall a program-Delete all adobe programs-Go to http://www.adobe.com/downloads/- install the latest version of Adobe reader - open chrome- enjoy PDFs. It worked for me I hope it will work for you too. Have |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Glen Alleman | 7/28/10 8:42 PM | When I un-checked the adobe box "open in browser," PDF's can be read. No problems in IE-8 and Safari. This is simply nonsense that Google can't fix this problem that has been around for months. Next step is to abandon Chrome. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | schmoggles | 7/29/10 7:01 PM | XP pro SP3 Chrome 5.0.375.125 Acrobat reader 9.3.3 Same issues as everyone else, just started a few weeks ago, around the same time Acrobat updated. Interesting: if you save the corrupted file from a Chrome window - then if you open the same link i |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | dhaudi | 7/30/10 6:53 AM | Same issues, started when Acrobat updated itself. Downloaded pdfs are corrupt when using Chrome, but fine when downloaded from Safari. WindowsXP SP3, current Chrome, Current Acrobat reader, and Acrobat 7.0 Pro. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | AnnMarieMc | 7/30/10 8:00 AM | Was having the same problem as everyone else (error 107)'s. I followed advice of previous commenter and turned off the option to allow fast web view. Edit --> Preferences --> Internet --> Uncheck "All Fast Web View" So far this seems to be working. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | jmamodio | 7/31/10 5:13 AM | I followed the suggestion of going to Acrobat Reader and disable the Fast Web View and the pdf files I open from Chrome no longer seem to be corrupted. Obviously one now needs to wait until the complete file is downloaded but that is a minor hassle t |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | robybenjy | 7/31/10 8:41 AM | I also had trouble viewing the pdf files in Google Chrome with "error in reading the page (107)" with white pages and "insufficient data to display the image" with distorted images. The problems were born after the last update of Adobe Reader in July |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | gerrynuk | 7/31/10 1:12 PM | Tried disabling "Fast Web View" but had no effect and I still get the "Insufficient data for an image." message. 1. What happens instead when you try to view the PDF? Is there a blank page or an error? Error message and partial display of pdf. 2. D |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | rodwhiteley | 8/1/10 8:18 PM | I'm using Acrobat Pro as part of the CS4 product suite, and displaying pdf's in Chrome regularly (perhaps 50% of the time) fails. Tragically, this means going back to IExplorer as despite uninstall/reinstall, repair, update of Acrobat Professional, C |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Tom_uw | 8/1/10 8:55 PM | I am also giving up on Chrome for the same reason. I read PDFs on a daily basis for my research work and I cannot waste any more time on this problem. I am extremely disappointed in Google support - there has been no response on this forum to this pr |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | tokaji | 8/2/10 9:40 AM | I also got this error #109. I am using Win7 with Chrome version 5.0.375.125 Here is an example, but I can reproduce this error with other pdf-s as well. http://www.manning.com/lowagie2/iText2E_MEAP_CH02.pdf |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | LittleJohn | 8/2/10 10:30 PM | Sometimes I get a blank page, sometimes I get an error reading part of the document, sometimes I get an ok download. Seems to be no rhymer or reason, except that when I open the same link in IE_8, I don't have any problems |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | WebGraphicDesigner | 8/3/10 7:13 AM | I have the same issue. Un-checking Fast Web View in Acrobat Pro 9 Solve the problem. This is only a Work-Around thought ... Chrome and Adobe need a real solution. DO NOT UNINSTALL & RE-INSTALL ACROBAT, you'll waste your time. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | warmonked | 8/3/10 11:16 AM | 1) I get blank pages. Sometimes all or sometimes only a few are blank. I usually get some sort of error message like "insufficient data for image" 2) happens on all pdfs 3) Using 5.0.375.125 4) Adobe Reader 9.3.3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | ijean | 8/3/10 12:40 PM | Pdf file on URL http://homedownloads.cisco.com/downloads/WRT120N_V10_UG_NC-WEB.pdf downloads but only page 1 is displayed correctly. From page 2 on all kind of error codes appear (109, 117, 14,....). No problems occur when downloading and reading thi |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | twicker | 8/4/10 9:45 AM | Problem is on a Toshiba Satellite, Win Vista Home Premium w/all updates, using McAfee VirusScan Enterprise w/Malware protection. 1. Blank page with an error (blank on p. 11, "An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly. P |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | twicker | 8/4/10 9:50 AM | Of note: much like ijean above, IF I leave "Display PDF in browser" UNchecked, then everything's hunky-dory (it just opens in Reader and works fine, thanks much). It's only displaying it in Chrome that chokes. Thanks! |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | JBrush | 8/4/10 4:15 PM | First let me say I love Chrome. But when I need to view and save PDF files I use either IE8 or FireFox. I've experienced the problem of viewing PDF files in Chrome using WinXP, Vista, and now Win7. But here's a hit that I hope may help fix this on-go |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | ppbppb | 8/4/10 9:56 PM | work for me sometimes, when uncheck "Allow fast web view" and "Allow speculative downloading in the background" obviously something wrong with the Chrome. fix it google. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | pathak.a | 8/6/10 12:28 PM | I opened a PDF document in the browser and when i scrolled the document it says "There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (107)." I am using Windows Vista 64-bit. I can send the screenshot if needed. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | peter.b.229 | 8/7/10 10:14 PM | I've checked, have latest adobe reader, and latest chrome -- get the same "there was an error" message everybody is talking about... I opened Adobe Reader, and under EDIT->PREFERENCES->INTERNET... uncheck display PDF in browser. Now PDF's won't open |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | shepheard | 8/8/10 7:27 AM | Error, several. e.g. "An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly. Please contact the person who created teh PDF document to correct the problem." "Cannot extract the embedded font 'CWGVJO+TimesNewRomanPSMT'. So |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | drewmcguin | 8/8/10 8:17 AM | Latest version of Chrome on Windows 7 64-bit (w/all updates); Adobe Acrobat Pro latest updates installed (ver. 9.3.3); followed suggestions in the main post, including "repair" of Acrobat Pro installation; no Reader installed, and I still get error m |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | airprakken | 8/8/10 9:05 PM | Win XP SP3 Asus eee 1005HA Adobe Reader 9.3.3 and Chrome 5.0.375.125 Tried uninstalling and re-installing both Tried all the workarounds Had been using older Adobe Reader (8.x) but it had the problem too. Normal operation: Briefly displays Adobe Rea |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | apopilot | 8/9/10 7:29 PM | Ahhhhh..... I just found this thread and I have not been able to open PDF documents. Page 1 loads and then I got blank pages with ERROR 109 |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | BLDeam | 8/9/10 11:11 PM | I'm using Chrome on Win XP. I saved a broken pdf file to disk and did a hex comparison with a copy saved with IE8 and found a number of 0x0d 0x0a pairs in the version saved by Chrome. I couldn't see any pattern to the overwriting other than it was to |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | TDBA | 8/10/10 4:47 AM | I started havening this issue all of a sudden. Almost all PDF files I open, page 1 displays correctly, when scrolling to page 2 I get the errors as mentioned in this thread. Example of PDF that has the issue (Adobe may not display correctly. Please c |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Xylem | 8/10/10 7:32 PM | I continue to have trouble loading PDFs in Chrome after double checking that both Chrome and Adobe Reader are up to date. Most recently I tried to load this PDF: http://www.ctscomposites.com/CTS_Composites_Brochure.pdf I got one garbled page of the |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Bill15203 | 8/11/10 9:50 AM | It appears Google may have fixed most of these problems. There is a new Chrome update version 5.0.375.126 available. I have re-enabled the 'display pdf in browser' option and have not encountered any pdf errors thus far. This has been a serious u |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | 2fast | 8/11/10 11:49 AM | I simply opened my Adobe Reader (9.3.3), went to Help > Repair Installation, rebooted, and problem is now solved in my Google Chrome (5.0.375.125). I am running Windows Vista 32-bit. Good luck! |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | ionic_flux | 8/11/10 3:41 PM | **My contribution to this issue - I hope it helps. I would love to use Chrome 100% once this issue is fixed. Now I only use for general browsing. 1. What happens instead when you try to view the PDF? It typically loads the first page and when I s |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | mr.bulow | 8/12/10 8:46 AM | Why doesn't the Chrome team post something to let us know the status on this? I've been subscribing to this feed for a month or so and I haven't seen a thing from them. A note from the Chrome team would go a long ways in the PR department. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | JBrush | 8/12/10 8:56 AM | It appears that this PDF problem has been resolved in Chrome v6.0.472.33beta (at least it worked for me). A post from Chrome stating this fact would be nice. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | dcsleeps | 8/12/10 10:29 AM | Yup, as mentioned by JBrush above, this issue was resolved for me as of this morning and the new Chrome v6.0.472.33 beta |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | pvanhove | 8/24/10 5:59 AM | I am using since first days Google Chrome. PDF worked fine till some months ago. I am not native English, so sorry for typos. I a having touble accessing my bank extracts in PDF format. Here I go with my list of structured answers #1 It displays: " |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | pvanhove | 8/24/10 6:05 AM | Maybe some extra info on the error: "Missing plugin" - so an error, not a blank page - I have a screen capture of the page if this would help - I can e-mail - the text Missing plugin stands in the area where it should display the page |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Can't view PDF files | 8/26/10 12:10 AM | ANSWER: There is a blank page. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | lcapelis | 9/10/10 6:39 PM | 1. Can't see PDF files on this page only, other sites work. Blank page in new window, then window closes 2. My phone bill https://www.unitelcustomer.com/index3a.aspx and the same window pops up and loads a pdf in IE 3. chrome 6.0.472.55 4. What Adobe |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | sambone009 | 9/17/10 2:55 PM | Here's a fix I found that seems to work every time for me. I delete the "https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=" from in front of the URL of interest and hit enter. Seems to force the pdf to open in the Adobe reader plug-in instead of the Google docs |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | RhondaB | 9/22/10 11:58 AM | When I create a link in an html document with a destination, Chrome converts the # sign to it's %23 hex value, then cannot retrieve the document. This page link works in IE, Firefox, Safari, and Opera with no problems. It's not critical that the do |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Arghh | 9/24/10 9:42 AM | 1. What happens instead when you try to view the PDF? Is there a blank page or an error? BLANK PAGE 2. Do you have an example URL where you’re consistently having trouble loading a PDF? http://CAPITALONE.COM - VIEW OR PRINT STATMENTS 3. Does updating to th |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | tomwitkin | 9/28/10 9:35 AM | >> Blank screen |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | srs232 | 10/4/10 6:40 AM | I'm trying to preview a PDF I uploaded to google sites in Chrome 7.0.517.24 beta for Windows 7 64-bit and I'm receiving the error message on our corporate site. It works fine in Firefox. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | jdoor0 | 10/7/10 2:09 AM | http://www.deweekkrant.nl/files/pdfarchief/ZVA/20090610/ZVA_ZVA-64_090610_1.pdf Opening in Chrome 7.0.544.0 dev on a Windows XP 64-bit (Windows 2003 Server code base) results in the main Chrome thread to take one processor core. You can close the t |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | AgentHH | 10/10/10 3:07 PM | I'm seeing the same thing as jdoor0 with Chrome 7.0.544.0 dev on 32-bit Windows XP. The main Chrome thread hits 100% CPU usage and needs to be killed through Task Manager for Chrome to be usable again. About half of the PDFs I look at do this. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | machriwaynne | 10/21/10 4:23 PM | Help is appreciated! |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | lcapelis | 10/21/10 8:19 PM | updated post: THIS SITE NOW WORKS, PDF's load in reader 9.4.0, while a blank window opens!!!! Using Chrome: 7.0.517.41 the rest of this post is from using Chrome: 6.0.473.63 and earlier |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Phinix | 10/23/10 5:31 PM | Can't scroll up and down. seems like the side bar is just locked. I can read whatever is displayed just fine. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Gunjan A Sharma | 10/28/10 6:52 AM | I am having Adobe Version 8 and Chrome version 7, my application generate 2 pdfs on one action. In chrome it opens only one while other browser's opening it properly. Any suggestion/fix? |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 10/28/10 7:16 AM | @Gunjan, what do you mean by "my application generate 2 pdfs on one action. In chrome it opens only one while other browser's opening it properly." Can you give a link which can be checked out? |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Gunjan A Sharma | 10/28/10 11:24 PM | Well the application is under construction so can't provide the link as of now. In my application on one button click I have to generate 2 different PDF letters , Both letters are being generated properly on IE7 and in FF3.6 in different browser tabs |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | agosin | 11/1/10 2:42 PM | Same as above poster "Phinix" here... |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | agosin | 11/1/10 2:49 PM | @vasa1 If I may, I think Gunjan uses the Adobe option allowing users to compare two documents. (very useful to verify contracts, etc...) I know the option runs on Adobe 8, not sure about later Adobe versions because since I lost my job, I no longer |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 11/1/10 7:10 PM | @agosin, Thanks! Unfortunately, Gunjan has not clarified. It is not clear whether problems were faced with Chrome's built-in pdf plug-in or Adobe's. From what I've seen, the Chrome version is quite basic, merely allowing one to view, resize somewhat, |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Gunjan A Sharma | 11/1/10 11:32 PM | When I generate 2 pdf (2 different pdf letters with different content) for my application one display in tab properly the other doesn't not even a blank page. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | kausikdatta | 11/4/10 11:03 AM | I suddenly started encountering this issue from this morning. I was browsing Wiley Online Library for PDF articles specific to my professions. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 11/4/10 11:12 AM | Kausik, if you are referring to the pdf viewer that comes along with 8.0.552.28 beta, bring your mouse back near the bottom right-hand corner (approx) and the panel will reappear. Google has promised to introduce new features in the viewer over time |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | kausikdatta | 11/4/10 11:30 AM | Thank you for replying, vasa1. However, I wasn't referring that PDF Viewer (Chrome) controls. I do think that this Viewer is not playing nice with the PDFs (leading to my specific problem), because when I inspected the page elements, I found the PDF |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | kausikdatta | 11/4/10 2:03 PM | My issue was resolved by a level 8 user, Alex, at another thread. I had to disable Chrome 8 beta's default PDF Viewer plugin and re-enable the Acrobat plugin. This totally solved my issue. HTH anyone else having the same issue. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | wpliao | 11/7/10 5:15 PM | Please post your findings, successful or not! It’s important that we hear what worked for you and what didn’t. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Andy in Doral | 11/12/10 12:34 PM | I am using Foxit Reader, which behaves well off line and in IE, but I get a mangled message with something like: "Fox~..." or sometimes just a blank screen. http://www.adobe.com/special/.../Lightroom_ReadMe.pdf is a good file to try. Vista Home pr |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 11/12/10 8:04 PM | @Andy, please re-post. Your post doesn't seem complete (to me). |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | xyong | 11/13/10 7:26 PM | Hi, I have problems when viewing PDF from IEEE http://ieeexplore.com database. This is the most commonly used database for student from EEE and both IE and firefox never have any problems when loading PDF from this database. Pls solve this problem. Thx. le |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Andy in Doral | 11/14/10 5:15 AM | Chrome 7.0.517.44 Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit Have Foxit and Adobe Reader. Foxit is the default. Both work fine from Windows or IE. Chrome displays a modal dialog box containing only a triangle with an exclamation mark and the word "Foxit" |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 11/14/10 5:38 AM | Andy, in what context does this dialog box appear? What settings do you have in about:plugins for the pdf readers? There should be two of them, one Google's, the other Adobe's. Have you enabled one of them, or neither? I'm not sure having both enable |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Andy in Doral | 11/15/10 7:56 PM | Took me a while to find "about:plugins", as it is really WRENCH | Options| Under the Hood | Content Settings | Plugins. I found that the Google PDF Reader, which, not having requested the beta version, I thought I did not have, was DISABLED. Now th |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 11/15/10 10:35 PM | Andy, sorry for not being clear. The about:plugins can be typed in the omnibox (address bar). Then hit enter. Another thing, when you do open that page, look on the RHS (near the top) for a little + sign. If you click on that you'll get more details |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Huntress | 11/20/10 8:51 AM | This is a problem which I recently experienced (since Nov. 6). When opening a pdf in Chrome, there is no print or save icon on the adobe reader toolbar. When I right-click to print, the page printout is incorrectly sized--for example, the bottom po |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 11/20/10 7:47 PM | Huntress, since you are on Chrome 8 (beta), I think that the Chrome PDF Viewer is enabled by default and that is disorienting to quite a few folks. You can check that by referring to the post above yours. You can use the settings there to disable the |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | HeyMikey | 11/23/10 11:22 AM | Chrome 8.0.552.200 beta Acrobat 9.4.0 Pro Windows XP Pro I frequently want to save a PDF document as a PDF. This used to be easy when Acrobat opened inside Chrome. Now I can't figure out how to do it. I'm a lawyer, trying to download a court docume |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 11/23/10 6:19 PM | HeyMikey, read the post above yours to get back the Adobe plug-in. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | TucsonGram | 11/24/10 4:38 PM | I have uninstalled and reinstalled everything. Not a computer whiz so the whole process took 3 days of agonizing pain. Love Google Chrome but have to be able to read PDF files. Going back to IE. Using Win XP. Just get blank pages when I try to op |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | albertocherubini | 11/25/10 7:36 AM | 1. blank page 2. https://ems.gluskinsheff.net/Articles/Breakfast_with_Dave_112510.pdf (it requires registration -for free) 3. no 4. 9.4.0 5. yes 6. there are no previous versions installed 7. done. no joy 8. not the case 9. done, no joy. 10. Windows |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | albertocherubini | 11/25/10 7:38 AM | let me add that sometimes (only sometimes) if from the tab that has opened I save it to disk, then it shows in the chrome tab too. Also, sometimes I see flash as the tab opens, then revert to blank |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | agosin | 11/25/10 7:58 AM | Alberto, in my opinion, you clearly only need to do this : on the right upper corner of google chrome browser, click on the tool menu, then "options", then "under the hood", then "content settings", then "Plug-ins", then "disable individual plug-ins |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | albertocherubini | 11/25/10 8:04 AM | i checked that, but the chrome PDF viewer is not even in the list of plugins. there was another viewer (X-charge or something like that), which i disabled, but no joy. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | agosin | 11/25/10 8:09 AM | but do you have any reader at all enabled ? like adobe reader should be enabled on your list and also, it's very strange that the google chrome viwer is not there since it installs automatically when you download chrome... Go to the latest chrome ver |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | albertocherubini | 11/25/10 8:11 AM | yes adobe reader is enabled. how do i get the beta version? |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | albertocherubini | 11/25/10 8:15 AM | The About Chrome box tells me i am uptodate, with Chrome 7.0.517.44. I cannot find any options to switch to Beta. Also, is Beta stable? I must say I keep on using chrome, but i cannot recommend it to others at the moment, as I would like to, because |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | agosin | 11/25/10 8:41 AM | Alberto, any browser will show in forums with multiple little problems, but let me say this: I am using Chrome beta version 9.0.576.0 and I solved the pdf problem easily via the check list shown earlier on this forum. I think the main point was I had |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | albertocherubini | 11/25/10 8:48 AM | thank you. could you point me to the check list you mention please? (or do you mean the one in the opening post?) also could you tell me how to get the beta version? i am sorry i cannot find out how. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | agosin | 11/25/10 9:13 AM | Alberto, a) the check list, is the one in the opening post shown again here below. b) link to the beta version: http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_chrome/ c) link to Filehippo update checker: http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/ |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | albertocherubini | 11/25/10 9:15 AM | thank you - I will try the beta - the checklist was the first thing i did, and alas it did not help. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 11/25/10 9:18 AM | @agosin, just in case you don't already know, you can check the release of new Chrome versions here:http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/ It has other useful information, a comments section, as well as information on how to update to beta or dev. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | agosin | 11/25/10 9:20 AM | do not forget, after downloading the latest chrome version to go all the way I indicated to your plug-ins and make sure you only have ONE active pdf reader. My choice was adobe and it works so I can't say about your X-file or any other reader...Also |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | agosin | 11/25/10 9:22 AM | thks vasa1 |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Andy in Doral | 11/25/10 9:52 PM | Looks like there is much to do to make managing PDFs natural and easy. One apparently little suspected secret is that, once you have displayed a PDF in Chrome, you can SAVE AS to a PDF file print it by using CTRL-RightClick to bring up a menu. I sus |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | bnetsmith | 12/2/10 10:08 PM | I have a brand new Windows 7 Premium system. Brand new install of the latest Chrome v. 8.0.552.215 Brand new install of the latest Adobe Reader v 10.0 No other Adobe reader. I can view online pdf files in Chrome but there are no controls at all for |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 12/2/10 11:08 PM | bnetsmith, you can go into about:plugins, click on details, disable Chrome PDF Viewer and enable the Adobe one. If you want to continue using the Chrome PDF Viewer, control+F will get you the search bar,bringing your mouse near the right hand corner |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | RWDelPorto | 12/4/10 3:48 PM | I just switched from IE-8 to Google Chrome. I love it, but just found something that worked fine in IE and doesn't work in GC. In fact, I had to go back to IE to do this. It involves PDFs, so I'm posting here. When I go to Chase.com, to view my c |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | RWDelPorto | 12/4/10 3:53 PM | Where do I find about:plugins? Under the tool symbol, I see About Google Chrome, but when I click on that, I just get a box indicating my Chrome is up to date. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Andy in Doral | 12/4/10 4:21 PM | You are supposed to intuit that "about:plugins" is something that you enter in the URL address field, without the quotes and with NO space next to the colon. Apparently the PDF geeks in the back room are not aware that people reading PDFs do real wo |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Adamant628 | 12/5/10 7:47 PM | Large PDFs take a long time to load in the window (longer than just downloading them). I just got a gray screen for 33 seconds while a PDF loaded. There needs to at least be some kind of progress bar so I know something is happening. Thanks for the |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 12/5/10 9:45 PM | Someone has made an issue here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62838you can star it. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | lonsdale pendle | 12/6/10 7:31 AM | I have just updated to Adobe Reader 10. This works well with FF and IE. In fact it's wonderful, you can disable the toolbars and get a floating pop-up one instead. In Chrome, however, it failed miserably. It conflicted with the page zoom property. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | javamiggs | 12/7/10 12:56 AM | The internal PDF viewer is great! but I have one trouble, when I visited a website that has an embedded PDF on a small portion of the page, the browser tried to fit the whole PDF page on such a small area and the whole page also "shrinks", fonts, pic |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 12/7/10 3:42 AM | It has been reported here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=64506. You aren't alone. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | pagel | 12/7/10 1:41 PM | 1. I'm trying to view a statement. In the past it came up as a pdf. Now it comes up as a web page. If I right click and 'save as' the only option is to save as a Chrome HTML document. 2. no url 3. Checked that I have latest Chrome update - I do |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Kulieo | 12/7/10 4:38 PM | @ pagel, have you tried using ctrl + S? Though the file extension does not show up, after you saved it, it should be a PDF file. Give it a shot :) |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | pagel | 12/8/10 12:19 AM | Hello Kulieo, I tried ctrl + S and it saved the statement as a .htm file - didn't actually save the file, saved the sign on page for the website from which I get the statement. Any other ideas? |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | pagel | 12/8/10 12:26 AM | It's me again. I tried this, posted by vasa1: bnetsmith, you can go into about:plugins, click on details, disable Chrome PDF Viewer and enable the Adobe one. And it works!! I can save the file as a pdf. Thanks for the help. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Chirstopher | 12/8/10 7:38 AM | 1. Message: “Multiple files are bound together in this PDF Package. Adobe recommends using Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat version 8 or later to work with documents contained within a PDF Package” 2. http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-m |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 12/8/10 8:59 AM | @Chirstopher, it looks like you have to use Adobe for this:to do so, type "about:plugins" in the address bar (without the quotes), hit enter, and then click on details (near the top right), disable Chrome PDF Viewer and enable the Adobe one. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Chirstopher | 12/8/10 9:08 AM | @Vass1, Thank you this fixes the issue we were having. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 12/8/10 9:13 AM | @Chirstopher, it's a bit unfair of the university to specify the software to be used for reading the pdf! If you're an activist type of guy (in a good sense), you may want to read this:http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/FSFE-campaigns-against-gov |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | ramblingman | 12/8/10 10:07 AM | I'm using the latest version of Chrome. Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. Viewing PDF full text articles in EBSCO databases are not working with Chrome viewer, work fine with Adobe Reader 9. When I click on the "PDF full text" icon, the reader page opens as u |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 12/8/10 10:22 AM | @ramblingman, you mentioned you were going to make similar posts in various forums. What about taking up ths issue of EBSCO tying students down to a particular pdf reader? Also, if using "the task bar to edit plugins is not very intuitive", they can |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | j.harris | 12/8/10 4:53 PM | Toolbar is missing from pdf inside a plugin. The only response that I'm hearing to get expected behavior out of my browser is for me to "go to about:plugins, click on details, disable Chrome PDF Viewer and enable the Adobe one." that is the incorrec |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Tikoty | 12/9/10 12:29 PM | A particular pdf file displays in the viewer with all the spaces between the words removed. I'm using Linux 2.6.32-26-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP with Chrome 8.0.552.215 beta. (I know there is a Linux thread, but this is not the gray screen issue.) I ge |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 12/9/10 7:07 PM | @Tikoty, this may not solve your Linux problem but your file displays perfectly in Chrome PDF Viewer on a PC running Win XP and Chrome Canary. Also, very nice to know that you guys are using Open Office and Ubuntu! |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 12/9/10 7:12 PM | It also opens perfectly in Chrome PDF Viewer on a PC running Win XP and Chrome 8 beta. After saving to disk, it also opens perfectly in Foxit Reader. In other words, I'm not seeing the "no spaces" problem on a PC running Windows XP. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | billy_f | 12/16/10 3:58 PM | I also have the stuck zoom problem. I had to disable the chrome pdf. It happens any time i view pdf on any site. Example all bank sites to view statements and more. I have win 7 pro 64 bit with adobe reader X. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | GG11 | 12/19/10 2:16 AM | Just use moxilla. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | dennishiding | 12/19/10 10:14 AM | 1. click on download this statement (.PDF) pdf comes up as a new frame right click menu bar and "Show as tab" right click inside new tab view and select save-as change name from EBrokerageTitaniumServlet (1).htm to 101130statement.pdf select "show i |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | TonyEric | 12/20/10 6:32 AM | I think @j.harris is 100% correct - Google are not thinking straight about this. What I find really shocking, now that I have trawled this thread, is that they have been thinking back to front for at least 9 months! The basic, and very very big issue |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Office Escapee | 12/21/10 7:27 AM | Unable to open saved PDF's. User gets an error message, "the file is damaged and cannot be repaired." Here is a sample URL, although it happens across all PDF's. http://65.175.93.226/LossMit/ShortSale.pdf The same link from an IE browser opens Ad |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Office Escapee | 12/21/10 8:41 AM | As an addendum to my previous post, my OS, extensions and plugins are as follows: 1) Windows Vista (latest, most current), IE 8 (8.0.6001.18999) 2) Extensions :: Clip to Evernote, Google Quick Scroll, Google Mail Checker, Google Dictionary (by Go |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Kulieo | 12/21/10 4:39 PM | Interesting. @Office Escapee, I was able to open it and saving it without much trouble. Were you opening it up under IE Tab? Is anyone else having trouble opening up the pdf? Were you opening it up under IE Tab? |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Hugo_tsb | 12/23/10 3:41 AM | 1. What happens instead when you try to view the PDF? Is there a blank page or an error? I can view the pdf in the browser. When downloaded (saved) I try to open the file with Acrobat Reader and at that moment an error is displayed: file damaged, can |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 12/23/10 4:57 AM | Google Chrome10.0.612.3 (Official Build 69636) devWebKit534.15V83.0.2.1User AgentMozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.612.3 Safari/534.15Command Line"C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Loc |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | makbulbranco | 12/29/10 1:59 AM | me not open facebook. why...??? |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | sheilawalsh | 12/31/10 5:10 PM | Does google realize how ridiculous this bug makes them look? From reading the forums, this has been dragging on for years and they still haven't solved it! As installed on my system (Windows 7, Chrome 8 something, Adobe Reader X), the viewer does |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | sheilawalsh | 1/2/11 1:00 PM | I meant to add that I'm new to Chrome, it came preinstalled on my new computer so I thought I'd give it a try. I previously gave up on Firefox because it wouldn't open pdfs -- I'm sure there was a workaround but I didn't have time or patience to loo |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | TonyEric | 1/4/11 5:25 AM | Hi everybody This has reached the stage where information about this fiasco has just been posted in The Times of London in a story about Google.. Once the World's Press pick up on this, it will not be good for Google's share value or finance plans. W |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 1/4/11 5:40 AM | I think this e-paper has gone "pay". If no link is available, at least a summary by Tony would be appreciated! |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 1/4/11 6:20 AM | Anyway, I'm not sure that Tony's prediction will come to pass. Google has had a long history of serving things raw. They had the PDF Viewer since version 6 but it wasn't the default. And nobody bothered to look at it. By a stroke of "genius", they ma |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | TonyEric | 1/5/11 12:19 AM | Here you are - The Times article starts - Murad Ahmed Last updated January 3 2011 9:00PM The search engine may have a 90 per cent share of the market but its engineers believe they are far from satisfying everybody ..... Comment posted - January 4, 2 |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 1/5/11 2:25 AM | Very little of life is objective. Let alone posts in fora. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | webbywebbo | 1/5/11 7:26 AM | I went through all the hell with re-installing Adobe etc after the earlier PDF mess. All worked fine until the dreaded viewer came online. Now if i disable the viewer I can not view PDFs. If I enable the viewer, i can read PDFs but not save PDFs. Wha |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | simrick405 | 1/5/11 7:45 AM | When you type about:plugins in the browser address bar and bring up the plugins control page, you should have Adobe Reader there available to "enable", after you disable the chrome PDF viewer. Then reboot. If this doesn't work, try reverting to the v |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | webbywebbo | 1/5/11 8:24 AM | Indeed a mess. Unfortunately simrick405 I followed your instructions but even the reboot did not deliver. I still can not use Adobe to open PDFs in Chrome, though I could before the viewer got enabled. I guess this is to get people used to the idea o |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Kulieo | 1/5/11 9:12 AM | @webbywebbo, Is it a particular PDF you're trying to save and won't save or any PDF files when you use Chrome's PDF viewer? If it's just a particular one, do you want us to test the link? Thanks. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | simrick405 | 1/5/11 9:46 AM | webbywebbo - sorry it didn't work out. I would suggest Opera over Firefox, if you do switch browsers. The other option is to see if you can get Chrome to let you use PDF-Xchange or Foxit. So much work! Just use Opera! ;-) |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | webbywebbo | 1/11/11 12:58 AM | @Kulieo I can not save in frame PDFs. Though I have not tried using Chrome save in frame PDFs for a couple of days so it might have been fixed (?). My real issue is that I can not renable my Adober Acrobat 8.0 to be the viewer in the browser. I need |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | beetlebot | 1/11/11 7:44 AM | None of the suggestions on the help page solved my problem. I don't have trouble viewing PDFs in the browser, but saving them is a big problem. My job involves a lot of saving PDFs from science article services like Wiley, JSTOR, and ScienceDirect. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Kulieo | 1/12/11 9:03 AM | @ webbywebbo Umm, what's your version of Adobe Acrobat? Maybe try to update to the newest one. It seems like the newest version will allow you to view PDF within the browser. @beetlebot Do you mind trying something? Right click on the PDF and selec |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | eturk | 1/13/11 3:27 PM | How to I STOP Chrome from hijacking my PDF links and opening in Google docs. I have Acrobat and want to use it. Why can't we change file associations in Chrome options, or how do we? Is it some secret code hidden from users? |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | simrick405 | 1/13/11 5:19 PM | To disable the Chrome built-in PDF viewer, enter about:plugins in the address bar and click Disable underneath the entry for “Chrome PDF Viewer”. Then, enable your preferred PDF viewer. Google advise this issue is prioritized for their next update. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Tomoya Kawasaki | 1/14/11 11:08 AM | Hey everybody, Thanks for all your feedback. We've prioritized some fixes for our next release of Google Chrome that should allow you to print and save within in-frame PDFs using the Chrome PDF viewer. To disable the Chrome PDF viewer and revert to A |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | simrick405 | 1/14/11 11:19 AM | Thanks Tomoya. But, when is the next release due? |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | sheilawalsh | 1/14/11 11:45 AM | Tomoya, you still don't get it!!!! most us don't want to use your lousy pdf viewer at all, we just want to use adobe reader, and we want it to be the default!!! Sheila |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Tomoya Kawasaki | 1/14/11 1:28 PM | @simrick405, We're targeting the spring for those updates. Thanks. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | armedforceiaf | 1/15/11 4:40 AM | I hate this new reader... I dont have all those options that I had earlier... Cant even see the number of pages the document has, without scrolling or downloading! its damn irritating! |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | webbywebbo | 1/17/11 11:19 AM | @Tomoya Kawasaki As well as the fixes please disable the Chrome viewer as the default viewer. If when the browser detects a PDF, but no viewer then Chrome can enable the viewer.Otherwise if there is a viewer in place, allow the use the pleasure of c |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | vasa1 | 1/21/11 11:44 PM | This is a useful development targeted for version 10: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=65339 "When we detect a PDF with an unsupported feature, ask the user if they want to view it with Adobe Reader if it's installed. If it's not, |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | giovanni.mellini | 2/17/11 2:03 AM | 1. What happens instead when you try to view the PDF? Is there a blank page or an error? Blank Page 2. Do you have an example URL where you’re consistently having trouble loading a PDF? https://www.halleyweb.com/c057069/mc/mc_attachment.php?x=3dad9dc |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | rohit_thakar | 2/24/11 8:24 AM | malformed pdf, either with no spaces or improper spacing between words, like this one http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/asic/tutorials/tutor1/tutor1.pdf it happens many times |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | webbywebbo | 2/24/11 9:25 AM | @giovanni I am using Windows 7 with acrobat and linux with other PDF readers. When I disabled the Chrome viewer I just got a blank page. Your solution in point 7 solved the problem. I had "preview PDF in browser" checked as recommended by the help pa |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | IraT | 2/28/11 7:49 AM | Chrome continues to have problems displaying pdf files on U.S. government web sites which display normally on other browsers. There is no better example of it than the problems using http://regulations.gov to read public comments which works fine on IE and |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | IraT | 2/28/11 7:50 AM | I neglected to post an example. Here is one: http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FSOC-2011-0001-0037.1 |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | webbywebbo | 3/1/11 8:26 AM | @giovani Chrome just updated to 9.0.597.107. Your fix that allowed me to use Acrobat for an entire two days is broken. I think Chrome is superb but this sodding viewer is a pain in the bum. I now just get a white screen. I have a suggestion Google. M |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | bsinibaldi | 3/6/11 8:22 AM | - Blank page, just gray. The spinning blue semi-circle indicating that its loading just keeps on going. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | simrick405 | 3/6/11 9:14 AM | Try Adobe reader v8. I have seen problems with X. I now have Chrome v9 and Adobe Reader v8, on a WinXP SP3 machine and my problems have been resolved even using the Chrome built-in reader. I can also revert to Adobe Reader if I want more functionali |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | RcNun | 3/14/11 6:41 AM | Hi. Today when i wanted to open a pdf file on chrome it said the some contents couldn't be sucessfully open and asked if i wanted to open in pdf acrobat reader instead. I answered yes and it said there was an update. After downloading the update and |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | geekzspot | 3/15/11 8:31 PM | i wish the controls became visible with a mouse click - i often forget to float the mouse over the bottom right corner to have them appear [Chrome 10 on mac] |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | rpromjr | 3/29/11 10:50 PM | I'm having the similar blank pdf issues when loading from the browser. I've tried this on Adobe Reader X and Adobe Acrobat 9 on 64-bit Win7 with Chrome 10.0.648.204 I go to http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/eras/era3.php At the bottom, if I cli |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | formikec | 3/30/11 9:02 AM | As a web developer for a state government, we have issues with the PDF Viewer in Google Chrome. We have PDF's online that are submit-able via our CGI application. They are only submit-able if the PDF is submitted from the browser (submissions from |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Awon | 7/12/11 9:42 PM | Hello there View pdf and doc file in webpages is a very interesting plugin for wordpress. Using this plugin we can view doc file and pdf in the same webpage using iPaper. It is easy to install and maintain too. I have a url which can help you. C |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | SeanFromIT | 7/22/11 1:02 PM | Google Chrome for Linux current release and current beta versions do not properly register space bar input for PDF input forms. Ex PDF: http://www.indiana.edu/~sfa/forms/pdf/APP_12AY_Grad_PLUS.pdf. Google Chrome for Windows current beta registers the |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Whakak | 8/8/11 5:06 PM | I have Chrome 12.0.742.122 m, IE 9.0 and Firefox 3.6.8. I also have Adobe Reader 9.4.5 installed under Windows 7 x64 (SP1). When I look at a PDF report in Chrome, the date of the report is shown in UTC where as in the other two browsers it shows as |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | jawyrick | 10/31/11 5:22 PM | Am using Adobe 9.4 and whatever version of chrome I now have (the version on my other computer did not have this problem) simply will NOT open PDFs for viewing or download. I had the same version of adobe on my other computer and it worked fine in c |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | fatos | 11/1/11 11:48 PM | change picture to png it worked for me |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | gordontmcr | 11/13/11 3:25 PM | Sometimes, PDF opens in Chrome. Sometimes it tells me I must save the file, it does not open to view. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | jaseem ali | 11/20/11 6:22 AM | the chrome pdf plugin doesn't work under proxy (it sometimes works). When I change the plugin it works |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | nmgilbert | 12/2/11 5:48 AM | Not so much viewing them, but I always have trouble printing them. Despite looking OK on the screen in print preview, if I print a landscape PDF, it sometimes comes out on my printer in portrait format and shrunk to fit - despite the printer's own se |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | jshad | 12/2/11 9:33 AM | PDFs that were created from InDesign with buttons do not show up in Google Chrome. This is not an issue in other browsers, I have seen posts on this and there seems to be no answers to this issues. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | JayL0401 | 12/8/11 8:38 PM | I updated to the latest developer version but it still doesn't work. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | terry straehley | 1/4/12 10:19 AM | Please post your findings, successful or not! It’s important that we hear what worked for you and what didn’t. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Tomoya Kawasaki | 1/9/12 2:22 PM | Hi terry_straehley, Thanks for providing the details. We'll look into the site incompatibility issues. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | ZTech | 1/18/12 7:13 AM | Hello, We are having intermittent PDF problems in Chrome, but I should mention my company is using a content management system. My laptop OS is Windows XP version 2002. I'm not sure if this is a browser issue, or a CMS issue as some PDFs open withou |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | kpm | 1/25/12 10:51 AM | Using the latest version of Adobe Reader and Google Chrome on an up to date Win7 64bit machine. When I click on the following link I get a blank page, no error, just white space. If I click the same link in Firefox, I'm asked if I want to save the |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | AJ_Fahmi | 2/6/12 1:49 AM | Problem solved in most versions, im running 14.0.835.202 for Mac, and here is the solution in the address bar type about:flags there u will find Print Preview Enables an in-tab preview of a print operation. Enable/Disable For all who wants t |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | 6below | 2/10/12 9:14 AM | I have this issue with my secure site. If i took out the s in the address bar it the PDF pulled up. I did disable Chrome PDF plug in and enabled Adobe Reader and it worked. Just thought I would tell you that this is still not working for secure sites |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | brentonstrine | 2/22/12 11:50 AM | I believe my issue may be related to this (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=5096aae165c563a1&hl=en) but I'm totally unable to get the specs you asked for since Chrome is only responsive for about 3 seconds! Is there a way to ge |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | mte | 2/23/12 5:04 AM | I have reinstalled Adobe flash and reader, and downloaded foxit reader, but I can't open pdfs like this one http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/AmericanHeritageGirls.pdf I see a dark screen with a little "Missing Plug In" message in the center |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Richard Bowen | 3/8/12 8:08 PM | Hi I've been having problems with Chrome and PDF viewing which seem to have been getting worse over time. Generally they follow the nature of what has already been described. Today I uninstalled my Acrobat Professional, which is a bit old, and this |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Ricky.Ricx | 3/12/12 7:56 PM | can't use touch screen with pdf & chrome. (windows 7 32bit) some problems: 1. in webpages i can swipe down / up to scroll but with pdf i can't do that 2. zoom in / zoom out (using 2 finger gesture) resulting the bottom right navigation icon moved |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | DeepmalaY | 3/21/12 2:34 AM | Hi Toni I am getting this issue . When i am clicking on pdf link it redirects me on blank and nothing happens. My answers are below. 1. Blank 2.https://decurtisgold.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/mas/pdf/MAS_brochure.pdf 3. google chrome is upda |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | DeepmalaY | 3/21/12 2:45 AM | Hi I am getting the same issue Have you got any solution for the same |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Keymaster | 3/24/12 8:25 PM | I get the Adobe window, but it then says PDF file failed to load. Seems to happen more on larger files than smaller. I have Chrome 17 and am running on a Vista system. Alas. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | santamonica4712 | 4/6/12 4:59 PM | **I think I first got blank pages a few times, but now nothing happens at all. 2. Do you have an example URL where you are consistently having trouble loading a PDF? **Well, for me so far it's just when I try to open an attached pdf-file in a mail on |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Gaius619 | 4/9/12 11:06 AM | When trying to view the following pdf, I get a blank screen: http://www.molex.com/elqNow/elqRedir.htm?ref=http://www.molex.com/webdocs/datasheets/pdf/en-us/0190020010_QUICK_DISCONNECTS.pdf When I remove the redirect so the address reads http://www.mo |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | mw_hayes | 4/10/12 6:57 PM | I have a Mac and I continuously run into problems when opening PDFs, especially larger ones. IF the PDF opens, it will crash as soon as I try to scroll. But many times, it crashes while loading and I get the Aw Snap screen. Any other tab opened on th |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | popytaty | 4/18/12 2:52 PM | El lunes, 8 de marzo de 2010 08:55:31 UTC+1, karmicfan escribió: > same issue as zom. using ubuntu karmic 9.10 with adobe. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Scargo | 5/19/12 2:34 AM | I've said this before. Possible elsewhere. I cannot view PDFs anymore. I get a white screen and when I leave that tab (or address) and come back to it, it will have the image of the last page I was on. Really crappy since Explorer works fine. I switc |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | SynodResidentialServices | 5/21/12 12:39 PM | The company I work for has over 300 computers running Chrome and now that we're using fill-able pdfs in-browser, I must either manually change the default PDF viewer or have all my non-technical users switch to Firefox, as it defaults to Adobe PDF Vi |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | J0EK1NG | 6/1/12 5:54 PM | 1. Blank page 2. http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2011/annual1103e.pdf 3. Already updated. Just hypothesizing, but it may have been the cause of the problem. The above url worked fine until I closed Chrome completely; presumably it updated during t |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | J0EK1NG | 6/1/12 6:03 PM | These are answering the questions posed at the top of the page. Hopefully this information is helpful in solving whatever problem is causing this. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Olli FIN | 6/2/12 9:03 AM | I'm having problems too. It shows blank pages only. Latest Chrome in use. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Drkhan | 6/3/12 12:00 AM | I have started experiencing this recently. I am a Mac user and have had to switch from chrome to safari because chrome just does not open the pdf files anymore. Everytime I click on a pdf file, it leads to a blank page with a message "unable to load |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | amygeorgine | 6/3/12 6:08 AM | Today: 6/4/12 I'm using Mac OS X Version 10.6.8 I cannot download PDFs using Chrome but I can download those same PDFs with Safari. I get the message "Couldn't load plug-in". Happens on multiple sites This is the Chrome I am using: Version 19.0.10 |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | shimax_jp | 6/4/12 5:33 AM | Because of the recent update, now Google Chrome has problems for some encrypted PDF files. The PDF file you mentioned about is also encrypted. Please read the discussion below: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=129591 |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | Skymonster | 6/30/12 1:12 AM | Hi Toni - I have just posted a troubleshooting question on this site hoping that someone can help me and then I saw your message. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | J0EK1NG | 6/30/12 6:54 AM | This isn't quite the same as what I was getting--it was just a blank white page. However, switching to Adobe has fixed the issue. |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | J0EK1NG | 6/30/12 6:56 AM | I have two possible answers to this, Skymonster-- Your PDF viewer might be deactivated in Chrome itself, in which case this would work: In Chrome, go to the URL chrome://plugins From there, make sure either Chrome PDF Viewer or Adobe Acrobat/Reader ( |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | J0EK1NG | 6/30/12 7:00 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Are you having issues with viewing PDFs in Google Chrome? | tri3stan | 7/10/12 12:56 PM | Here is how I solved... After "updating" Acrobat from chrome, I had to open up Acrobat X and check for updates from there (Help > Check for updates). |