You are all, as always, extremely helpful. I thought I would try the the simplest idea first, and discovered that when trying to open the pdf file it was using the Mac version of Adobe. It used to work fine, but you know what Windows is like! So reluctantly I downloaded the Windows version of Adobe into Parallels and hey presto, they open as they should. So thank you all for your suggestions. However, perhaps FH should be able to show the pdf file in the media window like it does for jpeg files? Regards Andrew

<<snipped>> perhaps FH should be able to show the pdf file in the media window like it does for jpeg files? <<snipped>> I'm not wholly sure but I am guessing that for .JPEGs etc, it actually has the code in FH (albeit licensed from others) to show the image. To show a .PDF directly, that would mean (if my guess is right) that Simon would either have to write code to show a .PDF in the media window or have to licence someone else's code to do it. In both cases, the code would end up as part of the FH software. Given how often Acrobat Reader is updated for security reasons, I'm not sure I'd like the idea of having that code - or its equivalent - inside FH. Moreover, if you think about what it would look like, it wouldn't actually be a simple interface - with a .JPEG, you just show the image. With a .PDF you'd need to have buttons to page through the file, etc. So my gut feeling is that it'd be one of these good ideas that turn into head in hands jobs after a while. I could be wrong of course........ Adrian