Hi Mike,

You are one of the few people out there that seems to be working with Acrobat and Sharepoint 2007. I am involved in a project where I am trying to open, make edits and save documents to Adobe 8 files in MOSS 2007 doc library and I'm running into a number of issues that I'm wondering if you've seen. For starters, when I try to do a Save As from Adobe to a doc library saved as a network place as you illustrate above, I am getting the following error in Acrobat 8 Professional: "The URL you have provided could not be reached. Please verify that the URL is correct and that the network location is reachable." (Both the URL and doc library are reachable - and I can see other acrobat files in there, but I can't save there from Acrobat.)

Another issue: I open an Acrobat 8 file and add some comments or do some other work. When I save the changes, they don't save back to the doc library but to my internet temporary folder. The only way I've found around this is to switch to Windows Explorer view in Sharepoint and then launch the acrobat file and make the changes. When I do that, Acrobat saves the file changes properly. I've played with turning off launching acrobat inside a browser but that hasn't helped. Would appreciate knowing if you've seen any of these issues and know of any work arounds. Essentially, I want to use Sharepoint 2007 as a document repository for Acrobat files but don't want users jumping through hoops to do basic opens and saves.

Many thanks,

Guy

After more testing, I figured out the problem. Because Acrobat is not a fully Sharepoint 2007 aware app, I tried to get the file to open in Acrobat 8 instead of inside the browser by turning off that option in Acrobat 8 (Edit | Preferences | Internet | Display in Browser) However, this confused matters because even though the file would open inside Acrobat now it still thought it was an IE file and was saving the changes in the IE temp folder. I turned that off (went back to the default) and then checked out the file first before editing it - which saves to a local folder. That works properly now.

What's confusing is that when you click on a Acrobat file it says open or edit and if you choose Edit, you really can't edit because you are in the browser. Also, if you don't check out the file first and choose from Edit Document, you get an error. This will only work once you have first Checked out the file. Ideally, that option would be greyed out until the file was checked out.

Thanks for the posts. They really helped.

Another comment. I just found out that if you change the default in the MOSS 2007 Doc library under versioning to require a check-out before editing, then when you click on an Acrobat file you now get prompted to see a read only copy or to Check Out and Edit the file and send to the Drafts folder - which is just what I wanted.

Also, an FYI that it appears that I have to save a comment twice on your blog before it gets posted. (I'm using Firefox - don't know if that makes a difference)