Kurt Shintaku's Blog

Has anyone else run into problems using Acrobat Reader 8.0 with Windows Vista?

Weird.  I loaded up version 7.08 just fine on the release bits for Windows Vista, but when people try to load version 8.0 from the Adobe Web Site, the supposed "Windows Vista" version, it freezes after you double click the installation executable.  It’s happened to 4 people I know now and that’s from directly off the Adobe download page.

If you’d like a copy of the 7.08 version that I know works, here’s the install executable:
http://www.evilkoala.org/download/2_AdbeRdr708_en_US.exe

In the mean time, I’m going to try to figure out what’s going on here with v8.0… not that I care actually, being that I’ve never needed any feature of Adobe Acrobat Reader other than… well… to read basic .PDFs.

Hey Kurt.  So why did you want to load Acrobat Reader in the first place?  I thought you didn’t generally like .PDFs?

Well, there’s a document online that I wanted to parse through that was in .PDF format:  It’s the patent application for Zune and describes the details of our patent around a WiFi connected media player.
http://www.cliczune.com/2006/10/zune_review_yo_.html

I was curious as to whether they’d mention that the device is driven by WINDOWS CE – because it is, just as Windows Mobile-based cell phones are and Thin Client terminals.  I haven’t seen any mention of this anywhere though – including the patent document.

Oh well.