Thanks Jim,

I think I am in a pretty good shape now.

Yes, to recap, what I originally had was Acrobat 4.0 - this is not Acrobat Reader 4 but the expensive Acrobat package which comes with Acrobat 4.0 which is a reader/editor for pdf files, Adobe Distiller and Adobe PDF writter. The distiller and pdf writer can be seen in the windows print menu, so print files can be sent to them instead of to the printer. I can therefore print a word file and it will be made into a pdf file and stored in a directory of my choice. For these reasons adobe get's it claws into a lot of things. When the pdf format was changed. I found that the Acrobat 4.0 reader/editor would no longer open the new pdf format. Now I had to install the reader 5 over the top of 4.0 because I wanted to keep the features that i already had with Acrobat 4.0.

I think that I can live with what I have. When using pdf files on the web, I normaly prefer to right click and "save target as" - in this way I can see the download progress. The pdf files can be large and my dial-up takes a while - good to see what is happening as the download procedes


Mark