Problems starting Acrobat: The Font Cache
I have found that certain issue with the Adobe Font Cache LST file, can prevent the application from working properly (or at all). I realized that deleting the Font cache will trigger the application to re-build it on the next run – thus having no negative effekt on the program, making this a quick and dirty first-attempt-blind-troubleshooting for problems with Acrobat & Acrobat Reader. The file in questions is called AcroFnt<version>.lst, where <version> is the Acrobat version number. So for example: AcroFnt11.lst. It’s located under:
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%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\11.0\Cache\AcroFnt11.lst |
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%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\11.0\Cache\AcroFnt11.lst |
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cls @echo off echo Killing Adobe Reader process... taskkill /IM AcroRd32.exe /F /T echo Waiting 5 seconds... PING -n 5 127.0.0.1>nul echo Cleaning up files on newer Windows versions... del /F /Q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\7.0\Cache\AcroFnt07.lst" del /F /Q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\8.0\Cache\AcroFnt08.lst" del /F /Q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\9.0\Cache\AcroFnt09.lst" del /F /Q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\10.0\Cache\AcroFnt10.lst" del /F /Q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\11.0\Cache\AcroFnt11.lst" echo Cleaning up files on older Windows versions... del /F /Q "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\7.0\Cache\AcroFnt07.lst" del /F /Q "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\8.0\Cache\AcroFnt08.lst" del /F /Q "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\9.0\Cache\AcroFnt09.lst" del /F /Q "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\10.0\Cache\AcroFnt10.lst" del /F /Q "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\11.0\Cache\AcroFnt11.lst" |
Wont open attachments
By default Adobe Reader has some security measures in place to prevent users from carelessly opening, say, an attached .zip file – just in case it would contain containing something maleficent. This list can be modify via the registry:
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0\FeatureLockDown\cDefaultLaunchAttachmentPerms] |
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0 \FeatureLockDown\cDefaultLaunchAttachmentPerms] "tBuiltInPermList"="version:1|.ade:3|.adp:3|.app:3|.arc:3|.arj:1|.asp:3|.bas:3|.bat:3|.bz:3|.bz2:3|.cab:3|.chm:3|.class:3|.cmd:3|.com:3|.command:3|.cpl:3|.crt:3|.csh:3|.desktop:3|.dll:3|.exe:3|.fxp:3|.gz:3|.hex:3|.hlp:3|.hqx:3|.hta:3|.inf:3|.ini:3|.ins:3|.isp:3|.its:3|.job:3|.js:3|.jse:3|.ksh:3|.lnk:3|.lzh:3|.mad:3|.maf:3|.mag:3|.mam:3|.maq:3|.mar:3|.mas:3|.mat:3|.mau:3|.mav:3|.maw:3|.mda:3|.mdb:3|.mde:3|.mdt:3|.mdw:3|.mdz:3|.msc:3|.msi:3|.msp:3|.mst:3|.ocx:3|.ops:3|.pcd:3|.pi:3|.pif:3|.prf:3|.prg:3|.pst:3|.reg:3|.scf:3|.scr:3|.sct:3|.sea:3|.shb:3|.shs:3|.sit:3|.tmp:3|.url:3|.vb:3|.vbe:3|.vbs:3|.vsmacros:3|.vss:3|.vst:3|.vsw:3|.webloc:3|.ws:3|.wsc:3|.wsf:3|.wsh:3|.z:3|.zlo:3|.zoo:3|.pdf:2|.fdf:2|.jar:3|.pkg:3|.tool:3|.term:3|.zip:1" |