[X-Apps] Print Preview Default

[Bob Johns]

Stephen, Michael, Thomas:

I obviously did not realize all of the ramifications of the question I 
asked! I am sure that I asked the question poorly.

My problem really was not concerned with opening ".pdf" files. It 
really was that if I wanted to print, for example, an email message, 
and that if I wanted to preview it so that I could print  only certain 
pages of the  message, I wanted  to do it in the Preview app instead of 
Reader. When I updated Reader, I had, by mistake, given the default 
status to Reader instead of Preview. And then I couldn't figure how to 
give Preview the default status back.

Anyway, the Get Info>Open With>Change All method (#3 below) let me 
change the default at will, both for the problem as defined above, and 
to define which  program opens a .pdf file when its icon is 
double-clicked. Many thanks for the help. Sorry to confuse the problem.

Bob


On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 11:15  AM, hart at nasw.org wrote:

> I think you're dealing with three different functions and accessing 
> one of the three in two different ways.
>
> 1. File > Open With allows you to choose an application to open the 
> selected file on a one-time basis.
>
> 2. (Option) File > Always Open With allows you to set the default 
> application to open the selected file.
>
> 2 a. Get Info > Open With does the same as 2 above. It allows you to 
> set the default application to open that single selected file.
>
> 3. Get Info > Open With > Change All allows you to set the default 
> application for all files of the same type as the selected file. (Keep 
> in mind that you might get a pdf that is not seen by the OS as a the 
> same file type as the ones you selected Change All for, and may have 
> to set that file type too.)
>
>
> Stephen Hart
> http://eugraph.com