Acrobat PDF Attachments launch then are hidden behind Notes window

Has anyone seen this or know what causes it?

90% of our users are on NT4 SP6 Workstatins and have Acrobat Reader

version 4. They all use Lotus Notes 6.0.1. When they receive an Acrobat

PDF attachment, in an e-mail or in any database document, when they use

the View or the Open options, the attachment launches in Acrobat, but

then the window immediately loses focus behind the Notes Client Window.

The user then has to use Alt-Tab to view it. This is not a minor

inconvenience as our Content management system relies heavily on PDF

files distributed via Notes (don’t ask). This problem started immediately following

the Notes 5 to 6 Client upgrade.

It is not affecting my personal workstation, but I have the full version

of Acrobat 4 (not the freeware reader) and am running Windows 2000. I

am not sure if these are factors.

I saw a somewhat related technote, but it wasn’'t very helpful as users are manually launching attachments with a double click and they generally have only reader access to documents.

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&q=acrobat+and+focus&uid=swg21091159&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en+en

Subject: Acrobat PDF Attachments Launch issue - duplicating

If I choose the Attachment View option, the attachment launches then is hidden. If I choose the attachment Open option, if opens as expected in the foreground, in front of the Notes Window.

However, my other users, who only have tha Acrobat 4 reader verion (also on NT4) it doesn’t matter which option they choose. Acrobat loses focus in both case.

Subject: RE: Acrobat PDF Attachments Launch issue - duplicating

Hi Roland,

Did you try reinstalling Acrobat after installation of LN ?

Kind regards,

Stefaan