[X Newbies] File types

[Bill Reburn]

On 2/4/03 11:48 AM, "TheMacintoshLady" <TheMacintoshLady at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Bill Reburn tapped out this message on 2/4/2003 1:15 PM
> 
>> Find a pdf on your machine, click on it once and enter CMD-I on the
>> keyboard.
>> 
>> When the info panel pops up, select the section that says "Open with". Click
>> on the drop down tab and select your version of Acrobat - then select the
>> "Change All" button below that. If Acrobat doesn't appear in that menu yu
>> have to 'navigate' to it and select it.
>> 
>> Should do the trick.
> 
> I thought I already had done that, but wondered why it went back to the
> viewer..... does this mean *ALL* .PDFs will open with that now or just
> that one file?

I think I have experienced that preference breaking before but I can't
remember why.

If you click on the "Change All' button - you are setting the OS to hand off
ALL pdf viewing to Acrobat. It will change any Preview pdf icons to the
Acrobat ones also. For example if I set all .mov files to open with an app
called vlc as opposed to Quicktime, the .mov file will lose the Quicktime
icon and in it's place will appear a vlc file icon. I think I am rambling
now.

Out of curiosity - why the preference for you? I know that Preview is barely
a 1/10 as robust as Acrobat - do you use these features as well? Or are
there problems with Preview handling some files?






Bill Reburn