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Dan H. - 20 Feb 2008 21:01 GMT

Greetings,
We are in a small LAN. We have been using another company's web app to
generate reports (.php) which would open a PDF in a browser. this worked up
until Monday.
Now when trying to generate report it produces the following error File does
not begin with '%pdf-'.
Stay with me and I will explain why this issue is in XP. So I tried from a
different computer, different versions of Acrobat Reader(ver. 5-8, 8 is the
current), different web browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, Netscape). I even set
the options in Acrobat so that the file will download. so I download the
file, open it up and same error message.
I called the host of the web server and they said they were having no
issues.
Well we have a Windows 2000 server on the LAN, long story short I tried to
do this from the server and it views the PDF with no problem.
The only updates between Friday and Monday i see is for Defender so I
uninstalled Defender but still have the issue. Nothing has changed on the
network.
Any advice would be appreciated.

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Alan Edwards - 21 Feb 2008 00:42 GMT

No real idea but have you tried a different reader?
I use this:
PDF Reader-Foxit: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

I had a look in Google but didn't see anything quickly.
You may be more determined.
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2005-15%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=%2
2does+not+begin+with+%25pdf%22&meta=

...Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.com/index.htm

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:01:06 -0500, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support, "Dan H."
<dhalstead@accaa.org> wrote:

>Greetings,
>We are in a small LAN. We have been using another company's web app to
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>network.
>Any advice would be appreciated.

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Dan H. - 21 Feb 2008 14:13 GMT

Thanks for your reply Alan.
I did find the fix. Turns out a Security update for IE was the culprit
(KB944533).
I guess what really threw me off though was the fact that other browsers
were producing the same error.
I figured I'd post the fix just incase it is ever needed.

Thanks again.

> No real idea but have you tried a different reader?
> I use this:
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>>network.
>>Any advice would be appreciated.

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sanjay.sibal@gmail.com - 29 Feb 2008 17:08 GMT

> Thanks for your reply Alan.
> I did find the fix. Turns out a Security update for IE was the culprit
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Hi Dan

We are facing the same problem here -- what is the resolution that you
found .. would really appreciate if you can share that.

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Dan H. - 29 Feb 2008 20:25 GMT

Hi,
It turned out to be an update for us so you could try to see if that is the
same issue on your side. In add/remove programs I uninstalled Security
Update KB944533 That fixed the problem.

On Feb 21, 9:13 am, "Dan H." <dhalst...@accaa.org> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply Alan.
> I did find the fix. Turns out a Security update for IE was the culprit
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>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi Dan

We are facing the same problem here -- what is the resolution that you
found .. would really appreciate if you can share that.

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