Acrobat Profoessional 7.0

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My inability to find freeware that works on 98SE (using the updated kernal) that can enable graphical pdf cropping (as opposed to offscreen cropping where one guess the number of inches one wants hacked off a page in each direction) led me to try install my copy of Acrobat Professional 7.

It had to be ORCAed to get it to install, at three points as I recall. And it complained while installing that printing facilities were missing, as Windows printer architecture changed subsequent to 98SE/ME.

Once it was installed, it failed to complete loading, complaining that : "Acrobat fail to load it's CoreDLL." Stripping out the plugins didn't help, nor did a Google search.

There is also a known problem with Explorer locking up when tapping on a PDF file, solvable by deleteing four registry keys as there is again an architecture change between 98SE and subsequent Windows. What is different with Professional 7 as opposed to Reader 7, is that the problem is perhaps recurrent, although still fixable by running a small registry merge on each occassion. The matter with respect to Reader 7 is treated below:

[...] manually remove the following registry keys:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{F9DB5320-233E-11D1-9F84-707F02C10627}

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Acrobat.AcroAXDoc.1

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document.7

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers\{F9DB5320-233E-11D1-9F84-707F02C10627}

[...]

So, anyone else attempted to get Acrobat Professional working? Any suggestions about "CoreDll"?

Equally, as to alternatives, what I can see are Acrobat Professional 5, which works well, and Expert PDF 6, which throws up a fair number of error messages but survives them to work well. The first may be expensive and difficult to find. The second can be had with a free upgrade from Expert PDF 4 Professional that was made available for free as part of an offer (Google it as the trail is not dead).

Edited December 10, 2009 by dencorso
Substituted the text between double-quotation-marks by a proper quote (with link) to the original post by RetroOS.