windows 7 - Why Adobe Acrobat is asking for Proxy server username password

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2014-07
  • rizzz86

    I have installed trial version of Adobe acrobat on my machine. Before launching it asks to sign in with Adobe Id. After successfully signing in it asks to enter proxy server username and password like this:

    Message: "Please provide your proxy server username and password"

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    I have installed Adobe Acrobat last month on a different machine and at that time it only asks for Adobe Id to sign in.

    Any reason why it is asking now. Is there any setting on this new machine that I have to check or some update by Adobe?

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  • rizzz86

    It is a proxy related issue.

    I have installed Microsoft Forefront TMG to fix this issue.


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  • user66009

    What is Acrobat Adobe writer? It is part of Adobe Acrobat?

    If I have Adobe Acrobat, do I have the Writer?


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  • Ward

    The correct terminology is that Adobe Acrobat is the program used to create PDFs, and the program that can only read them is Adobe Acrobat Reader.

    People are pretty loose about the usage, though, and I'm always having to clarify with the users I support whether their question is about Acrobat or Acrobat Reader. For some reason, although everyone uses the terminology "writing a PDF" I haven't heard too many people refer to the product as "Acrobat Writer."

    Oh, and this probably belongs on superuser...

  • Mark Henderson

    I think the term you're looking for is "Acrobat Distiller". This is the program that will create a PDF from various sources (word, .ps file, etc)

    The Adobe Acrobat you've referring to is most likely the Adobe Acrobat Reader - which is just a reader, and cannot be used to create PDFs.

    The full Adobe Acrobat suite is very expensive ($900 last time I checked, which was about 5 years ago).

    That said, if you need to create PDFs, Acrobat Distiller is no longer your only choice. Have a look on http://www.superuser.com - there's bound to be plenty of questions on there about creating PDFs.