Printing/opening Pdf Email Attachaments....

[Im a BusyBee]

i have always been able to open and print pdf attachments to emails but today they wont open - why is that? Also whilst asking why have i never been able to open word attachments, they do open but are a load of gobbledy goo! THANKS FOR YOUR HELP

[CheekyChops]

Are you getting any kind of error message when you are trying to open a .pdf?

As for Word documents, I assume that you have actually got Word installed on your PC? Can you right clock on an attachment and choose...open with.. and then select Word? It sounds like they are opening with the wrong programme.

[Buenchico]

In both cases it reads as if your computer has got the file associations in the Windows registry mixed up. (It happens a lot!)

The chances are that you've got a few PDFs stored on your computer. (If you're not sure where, a search for *.pdf will find all of them. Alternatively simply find a PDF on the internet and save it to your hard drive). Once you've located a PDF on your hard drive, right-click on it and select 'Open with'. Even if you see your PDF-vieweing program (such as Adobe Reader, Foxit or SumatraPDF) listed, DON'T immediately click on it. Instead, select 'Choose program'. THEN select the program you want to use AND put a tick alongside 'Always use this program . . .'.

Then go through the same process again with a Word document. Hopefully things will then be OK.

An alternative way of fixing the PDF problem (particularly if you're currently using the bloated 'Adobe Reader') is to install a better viewing program, allowing it to become your default application for handling PDFs. I use Sumatra PDF:
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html