PDF will not come up on screen in IE 8
1. Change registry entry in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\{EAB22AC0-30C1-11CF-A7EB-000
0C05
BAE0B}\1.1\0\win32
to
c:\windows\system32\ieframe.dll
2. Change IE settings under download in the Internet Zone for security to enable auto prompting for downloads and also enable file and font downloads.
The workaround when neither of these work is the following: