[X4U] Acrobat Annoyances - Multiple "open with" entries.

[Vince Lewis]

On Feb 14, 2005, at 12:45 AM, Stroller wrote:

>
> On Feb 14, 2005, at 3:31 am, Stroller wrote:
>
>> On both my Macs when I right-click on a PDF and go to the "open with" 
>> section I get multiple entries for Adobe's Acrobat apps, as shown in 
>> <http://mac.stroller.uk.eu.org/PDF%20Problem.png>.
>>
>> Is it just me that gets this, or have other list members experienced 
>> it, too?
>
> Great! Thanks for the responses!
> Now for what I should have asked in the first place - does anyone know 
> how to fix this, please?
>
> To cover the Acrobat critique - I personally have pdfs set to open in 
> Preview by default, and have no problems with Preview for that. But I 
> have Adobe's Creative Suite, and I find that I use Acrobat when I want 
> to print a letter with a colour "headed paper" - I print to PDF in 
> Word, open in Acrobat, and add the pdf of the headed paper as a 
> "watermark" before printing it. I seem to recall that when I 
> originally set up this workflow I couldn't get the headed paper's 
> image into the Word document itself at a high enough quality for me to 
> be happy with it.
>
> Stroller.

No need to fix it, it's the correct behavior. As I understand it, each 
app registers with the OS all file types it can handle, and then "Get 
Info" on any file will show a list similar to this--though many files 
only register to their primary apps. The more generic the file type, 
the more apps listed.
ciao,
Vince
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