Viewing PDFs

[nacroyle]

Ever since I installed Leapard on my Mac I haven't been able to view PDFs using Acrobat Reader 9. Even if I try and manually designate Acrobat 9 as the application to read the PDF it still won't read it. I have even tried deleting it and re downloading/installing...and it continues to not work. What I can do is download PDF's to my desktop and view then with Preview. This is incredibly inconvenient and annoying, however, Does anyone know why Acrobat 9 won't work, or how I can fix this problem?

 

[Egidio]

That's strange. I was able to change the default from Preview to Acrobat. Did you do a global change to use Acrobat every time? In case you want to double check that, here are a couple of methods:

(1) Find a PDF in your Mac.
(2) Hold the option key down and right-click (or control click) on the icon.
(3) The second menu item you will see says "Always open with" and to its right a list of applications.
(4) Select Acrobat. From then one, all PDFs will open with Acrobat.

The second method is similar.
(1) Find a PDF in your Mac.
(2) Highlight its icon and do a command + I.
(3) Look at the section that says "Open with" in the window that opens.
(4) Select Acrobat and click "Change All." From then one, all PDFs will open with Acrobat.

 

[nacroyle]

Thanks for response! I tried what you've suggested, but only found that Acrobat is already the default PDF reader (so I couldnt change anything). Online PDFs are what I am having trouble with. I can't view online PDFs using Safari....I am able to view them with Opera though.

 

[Ric]

Hi there,

in Acrobat have you changed the preferences-->

Acrobat menu-->Preferences-->Internet-->display PDF in browser using

Screen shot below is Acrobat 8.1.2 Professional.

regards

Ric