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

[Nick Scalise]

On Monday, February 14, 2005, at 09:08AM, Vince Lewis <vplewis at mac.com> wrote:

>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.
>
>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.

He's concerned that Acrobat Apps are showing multiple entries in the 'Open With' CM. Did you look at the .png he posted?

That can hardly be called correct behavior.

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Nick Scalise
nickscalise at mac.com