Article - CS346461

Unable to view any PDF documents in Creo View installed on a Windows 7 OS machine

Modified: 17-Nov-2022   


Applies To

  • Creo View 7.1 to 8.1

Description

  • Unable to view any PDF documents in Creo View installed on a Windows 7 OS machines
  • No errors are reported when trying to view any PDF documents in Creo View installed on a Windows 7 OS machines
  • Even though the supported configured Adobe Reader DC is installed on a Win7 machine, unable to view any PDF documents in Creo View
  • Unable to view any PDF documents in Creo View installed on a Windows 7 OS machines even when using the option "Use native viewer for PDF files", no errors reported
    • Enabling the Creo View client debugging (see CS62972) provides the following errors in the trace log:
Error   11:17:21.351  7 June 2021 23864 24252 dp SharedLib Failed to open the library: "C:\Program Files\PTC\Creo 7.1.1.0\View Express\x86e_win64\obj\libdocumentviewer_vs16.dll", error: The specified module could not be found.
Info    11:17:21.351  7 June 2021 23864 24252 installer InstallerBom Failed to open shared library "C:\Program Files\PTC\Creo 7.1.1.0\View Express\x86e_win64\obj\libdocumentviewer_vs16.dll"
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