PDF Watermark from accessing internet PDF file links & bugs?

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PDF Watermark from accessing internet PDF file links & bugs?

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I am using Firefox 3.5.8.

Perhaps this should be 2 or 3 posts but I am mainly concerned with the first right now.

I was so happy with PDF-Exchange Viewer that I checked for updates and updated. Now I am very disappointed for a couple reasons.

1. First, most importantly. Now, when I click on a link to a PDF file the browser opens the PDF file using PDF-Exchange Viewer but there is a huge watermark there that says...

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It never used to do this and is very disappointing. Can I turn this off? I have scoured all the settings.

2. This is less a problem. Most of my PDFs I open open right up according to the last view as I specified in Preferences but a couple at least now do not. They open up at the very beginning of the PDF in a small size. I wonder why that is? These are very often used PDFs.

Seems to me there is one other issue but the first one here is the main one. It is useless for me to see a huge watermark when accessing PDFs from the internet. Also, it seems I cannot save the file from the browser PDF-Exchange Viewer application but need to save it from the browser itself via "File>Save Page As".

Thank you very much for your help. You have a great product that I tell everyone about.
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Re: PDF Watermark from accessing internet PDF file links & bugs?

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1. I have never seen this happen to any PDF file unless you make some changes to it using the Pro features, and then save it. Do you have a link to such a file?
2. PDF files can contain code to make them open at a certain size, or page number, etc. If your Page Display settings in preferences are set to Automatic the setting in the file made when they were created will be respected.
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Re: PDF Watermark from accessing internet PDF file links & bugs?

Post by John - Tracker Supp »

Ditto to everyting Bhikkhu says (1&2) - there is nothing in PDF-XChange that would make files opened via your browser display the evaluation watermark - the only way for this to happen is if you (or the author) have used a PRO version feature without a license and saved the file.

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Re: PDF Watermark from accessing internet PDF file links & bugs?

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Thanks for your help.

I have done nothing whatsoever different. The only thing I did was install an update. It adds the watermark to any and all .pdf files that are accessed from a link on the internet to a .pdf file.

Weird. Also it won't open them outside of the browser (in the application directly) like it used to but only in the browser now.

I guess I need to uninstall and reinstall.
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Re: PDF Watermark from accessing internet PDF file links & bugs?

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Please let uis know how this turns out and if we need to look into further.

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Re: PDF Watermark from accessing internet PDF file links & bugs?

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It was a problem only in Firefox not in I.E. I uninstalled and reinstalled and all seems to be well now.

Thanks much for your replies.
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Re: PDF Watermark from accessing internet PDF file links & bugs?

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Excellent - thanks 'Asker'
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