Cannot open .pdfs

littlerock

My PC will not open .pdfs. All I get is a black screen but no error message nothing. I am running windows 7 so I forwarded one of my .pdfs to OH who is running windows 10 and he opened it without any difficulty.

Short of upgrading to windows 10 - not right now I am in the middle of something - does anyone have any idea what is happening? The problem is quite recent.

agrinnall

Have you tried opening the PDF file from within your PDF reader application (such as Adobe Acrobat or Xodo)? Sometimes just double clicking on a PDF doesn't work as you might expect. That of course assumes that you already have a PDF reader installed, if you don't then it's not going to work at all.

DoaM

As above, Windows 7 (I believe) doesn't handle PDF files natively ... a reader of some form is needed. (Could even be your web browser if Chrome). Windows 10 I believe does handle PDF files natively.

Sam_Fallow

I also run W7 and prefer to use Foxit Reader. It always manages to open all my pdfs.

Farway

Sam_Fallow wrote: »

I also run W7 and prefer to use Foxit Reader. It always manages to open all my pdfs.

Same here, no problems at all

GDB2222

littlerock wrote: »

My PC will not open .pdfs. All I get is a black screen but no error message nothing. I am running windows 7 so I forwarded one of my .pdfs to OH who is running windows 10 and he opened it without any difficulty.

Short of upgrading to windows 10 - not right now I am in the middle of something - does anyone have any idea what is happening? The problem is quite recent.

Just install acrobat reader.

https://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/

littlerock

thanks will try some of the suggestions ( i am running Chrome browser btw)

littlerock

Looked at my Chrome Plug ins for reading .pdfs and they are

Chrome PDF Viewer (2 files)
Name: Chrome PDF Viewer
Version:
Location: chrome-extension://mhjfbmdgcfjbbpaeojofohoefgiehjai/
Type: BROWSER PLUGIN

MIME types:
MIME type Description File extensions
application/pdf .pdf

Name: Chrome PDF Viewer
Description: Portable Document Format
Version:
Location: internal-pdf-viewer
Type: PPAPI (out-of-process)

MIME types:
MIME type Description File extensions
application/x-google-chrome-pdf
Portable Document Format
.pdf

(Ticked yes) Always allowed to run

agrinnall

Personally I'd just do what GDB2222 says and use Acrobat to open the PDF directly rather than bother about Chrome plugins.

AndyPix

^^ Same.
Use the proper tool for the job