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Forum Discussion
PDF files open as read only on Acrobat Reader (on Android)
I haven't had any problem editing PDF files on my Android tablet until now. I simply opened dropbox, and opened the PDF in Adobe Acrobat from dropbox.
Lately, when I open a PDF in Adobe Acrobat from dropbox, I get an error message telling me I can only open the file read-only. This applies to all my files.
When I open a PDF directly from Adobe Acrobat, I don't have this problem.
I suspect this is related to a recent update of either app.
I was able to use an app Xodo and it seems to work just fine for me. I will use this for the time being until this bug gets worked out.
- I am having the same problem. This problem alone is enough for me to try to convince my company that we no longer need Dropbox.
Same problem here, on two Android machines.
Same problem here.
Have you managed to solve this problem, we use dropbox and adobe for our work tablets, dropbox have come back to us saying it's not a problem their end but something to do with Adobe, this has been happening for at least a month and we have no idea how to solve the issue, so any ideas would be a big help.
We have other options as cloud services, so I will be looking at the competition if this is not solved.
- Lusil
Dropbox Staff
My guess is that the latest "Reader" only reads and Adobe wants you to buy "Acrobat" to edit a PDF. (This is not the same as fill-in-the-blank PDF files.)
Hi...
Whenever i open a pdf file from my dropbox using Moon+ reader or adobe reader,, it gives me a message that the file is being opened in read only mode, (( it actually makes a copy of the file locally,, and saves whatever you do ( highlight, edit, sign) saves all that locally))
there is a similar thread talking about this issue,, but there is no solution at all,, i had this problem since about 7 months,, and i managed to found a solution by installing an older version of the dropbbox app on my tablet, and everything was working well until dropbox decided to stop support of the older version and forced me to update to the latest version of the dropbox app,,, and now i'm back to the same problem...
-hence- the problem is not related to adobe or the moon+ reader app,, and it is from the dropbox app side..
all i want to do is open the pdf file in my dropbox folder from my tablet using moon+ or adobe reader,, and go back to my pc and find my edits there...
- Lusil
