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Originally Posted by Tessa
I've had a similar problem as you're experiencing in the past and found a workaround for sites that have "issue" with opening the pdf in the browser. Open up Acrobat first (don't need to open any files, just have it open and running) and it will usually display it correctly in the browser; sometimes it will display it inside Acrobat (as if you had the file saved locally and opened it), and to make it even more confusing it can give you the popup with the error, but then after you click OK the pdf displays correctly in the browser.
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Already tried that, doesn't work.
The only workaround I've found so far when the PDF doesn't display properly in a browser window, is to hit Refresh... when it reloads that seems to trigger something and it opens/displays the PDF fine. I've had to do that at a couple sites but it's no biggie, and that was one workaround suggested by a couple of the people complaining about the issue in Adobe's forums.
Unfortunately this does NOT seem to work for the popup window that's supposed to display the PDF from my bank's site.
I also installed a different PDF reader, and the same problem occurs even though the supposedly magical option "Display in browser window" is available and deselected per the bank's (and Adobe's) recommendation.
Not that it will do any good, but I've already emailed the bank's tech support back and reiterated that according to the available information this issue is not an end-user problem. It's the result of the failure of the bank's site to deliver PDF files online in a way that is compatible with the most recent versions of Adobe Reader, as well as the failure of Adobe to address the incompatibility from their end (most notably, they continually advise users to deselect an option that is impossible to deselect) despite getting numerous complaints about it.