Acrobat Reader is unable to correctly interpret some mountpoint reparse points (junctions). In practical terms: Acrobat Reader is unable to access PDF files from file systems mounted as directories and this is the root cause of the problem.

Junctions are special symbolic links that are used in many scenarios; an important one is when a file system is mounted as a directory rather than a regular drive. Junctions contain 2 paths: a “substitute” path which must be a path in the NTOS namespace (not a Win32 path) and a “print” path, which is to be used for display to the user.

A junction that is used to mount a file system on a directory might have a target like \Device\Volume{GUID}, which might be a file system device. Unfortunately targets such as \Device\Volume{GUID} appear to create problems for Acrobat Reader because it interprets them as the Win32 path C:\Device\Volume{GUID}, which is incorrect.

For more information on this problem please see this GitHub issue:
https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/issues/274

I am the author of the WinFsp software, which can be used to create file systems and I am happy to answer any questions you may have about this problem.

I have a legal copy of Acrobat Pro X (Creative Suite) that I love (I use it over Creative Cloud supplied by my employer). PROBLEM: I cannot have Reader DC (needed for shared forms sent to me occasionally) installed at the same time as it always acts as default app even though the Windows 10 default app still lists Acrobat Pro. This is as infuriating as when Edge automatically changes this every time there is a Windows update. I already own Finereader 15 that does everything Acrobat does and more and does not require a monthly subscription. You lost a customer when you made your business model change, but stop trying to control my computer.

Verion 20.006.20034.39303

When copying from a PDF document the text gets cut off after the SECOND letter 't' when trying to paste.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Open the PDF document attached to this
2) Go to the first page of PDF
3) Highlight the sentence "If the input parameter is a timestamp (without time zone) it applies the offset of the time zone you specify and returns a timestamp with the time zone."
4) Paste into a text editor

Expected Results

All the text is copy/pasted

Observed Results:

Only the following is pasted:

"If the input parameter is a"

Very odd!!

Windows Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 2020.009.20074 inconsistently fails to convert our PDF data to a viable Excel file. When it fails instead of creating an All-Borders grid around the data, it will create a Picture of the border box and clump the data together in a jumble below.

As we use macro's to manipulate the converted data, this obviously presents a problem to us.

We have captured some files during the conversion process, and made a Word conversion of our data to check it - and what we found makes us wonder where this may be coming from.

Process Step:
- Download PDF file form company server
- Open in Adobe AR DC and convert to Excel
- Save excel file and use as basis for data shaping

Please refer to the attached files.

1.Raymers07212020SourceFile
2.Raymers07212020BadPDFtoExcelConversion (example)
3.Raymers07212020ShowingPossibleFrameError
4. Raymers07212020screen_capture (highlighted format mark)

This is causing delays in our data shaping process and we presently cannot narrow this down enough to catch in the macro process.

Can you advise?

Dear Adobe Team,

could you add a function / command inside the view menu of the free adobe reader that works similar to the function 'freeze panes' in Microsoft Excel.
That would allow to freeze headings/captions if you use the pdf reader for presentations of management reports etc.
This could be useful in video conferences as well when you only can present a section of the full report.
If this would work for picture, text and table objects would be nice.

Unfortunately I have not seen such a function in a pdf reader before.

I do not know if this makes sense for you.

A feedback would be nice.

Jo commented · July 09, 2018 03:41 · Flag as inappropriate
I have the same problem... page 2 prints on a new page even though the print request is for double sided print. From all accounts it seems to be a widespread problem when a document has an odd number of pages. I tried to print just page 1 and 2 of a three page document but it still printed pages 1 and 2 on separate pages! What a waste of paper. This issue seems to be ongoing for some years and I cannot understand why Adobe cannot fix it when it is affecting so many people.It is ridiculous that users have to create blank pages at the end of the document to make it into an even number of pages simply because Adobe cannot be bothered to rectify the issue. I've never seen this issue on any other Windows software I use.
and why is this webpage so bad to use?