[benz]

hi,how can i set adobe reader as default pdf reader when i change the screen to pdf ? as preview is the one that the computer set. my safari is 1.3.2, OS 10.3.9, thanks.
P.S. i don't the preview as pdf reader..

[purplepotion]

if you cntrl click the PDF file and go to Get Info
you can choose what program you want to open PDF's with.

[Big Mac]

And remember to click Change All in Get Info after selecting Reader for one of your PDFs.

[benz]

thanks a lot

[Apfhex]

If you want PDFs to be viewed in Safari with the Adobe Acrobat Reader browser plugin, go to Acrobat's preferences and under "Internet" there is a check box for "Display PDF in browser using" with an option to select Acrobat.

[Spoffo]

I just tried this and it doesn't appear to have worked. I set the Acrobat reader prefs to "check browser configuration" then quit. Then when I re-opened it, sure enough, it reported that the browser (it never said which one) was not configured to use Acrobat reader, and I told it to fix that. However, when I click on a .PDF in Safari, it still opens it in Preview.

If I close and re-open Acrobat reader, it no longer reports that anything is mis-configured, so it has apparently changed the prefs file it wanted to, but Safari doesn't seem to understand this.

Any ideas?

My problem is that more and more people are sending and using .pdfs that incororate some new coding that shows up as garbage in Preview (v2.1.1) but displays just fine in Acrobat. I'm guessing that this has been fixed with the version of preview in 10.4, but I'm still happy with 10.3.9 and I'm too lazy to change for just this one issue.

[Spoffo]

OK. I fixed it. The answer was the universal one - "RESTART"

a) Do the get info/ "change all" to acrobat reader.
b) Restart!
c) NOW all the .pdf icons come up as Acrobat instead of Preview
d) Open Safari and download a .pdf. YES, it shows up with an acrobat icon, but oh NO! neither Acrobat nor any other app opens to read it.
e) Open Acrobat Reader manually. Aha, I get the "opening app for the first time" warning. Then, when I open it, I - again - get the question about the browser not being configured for acrobat
f) Click "yes. Fix the configuration." (again) Then quit Acrobat and Safari.
g) Re-open Safari and Success.! Now when I click any .pdf in Safari it automatically opens up in Acrobat reader.

I've been a hard-core Mac loyalist since my Mac Plus, but if you aren't a Unix maven, bashing around though an issue like this seems painfully close to the Windows experience. Anybody know a simple write-up of the basics of how these Unix links work so I'd feel a little less like I was groping blindly?

[Big Mac]

You could check the Unix forum, but I doubt it would help because all of the things you mentioned doing have nothing to do with the Unix layer or the Terminal. And OS X very seldom requires a restart because of undesired behavior.

[Spoffo]

It wasn't "undesirable behavior" as such - - as in crashing or slowing down I just think it needed a restart to sort out a bunch of changes in program links/ prefs files or whatever. There are all sorts of little quirks in OS-X where it doesn't seem to reset/update directories when you think it should, like when Finder doesn't show a recently-created folder in the save/print dialogue, or when a software update inherets some preferences, but confuses some others. Even after something like 2.5 years with OS-X, I find these sometimes surprising, and I haven't been able to figure out the logic of when and how this stuff takes place (as I generally could in 9 and previous) I assume that this is somewhere in the file management rules of UNIX.