Want to View in READER not EDITOR

[L. Mark Bruffey]

Ever since installing Acrobat 5.0 EDitor, all web pdfs open in the
EDITOR instead of the READER. Lots of times I just want to read not
edit, so I prefer to open in the Reader, but I cannot figure out how
to do it. I have tried to play with file types, etc., without success.

Thanks,

mark

[AJH]

L. Mark Bruffey <mbru...@centralseminary.edu> wrote in message
news:49faa831.02042...@posting.google.com...

- Open Windows explorer
- Select View | Folder Options
- Click on the 'File Types' tab
- Scroll down the list of 'Registered file types' and select 'Adobe Acrobat
Document' (PDF)
- Click on the 'Edit' button. This open the 'Edit File Type' dialog.
- Select 'open' in the Actions window
- Click on the 'Edit' button
- Change the 'application used to perform action' to:
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" "%1"
(you may need to alter the path to suit your system). The double quotes
and spaces must be typed as shown.
- Click on 'OK'

Optionally you might want to create a new association to 'Edit' PDF files.
This allows you to right click on a PDF file in Explorer and select 'Edit'
instead of 'Open'
in the 'Edit File Type' dialog.
- Click on 'New'
- In the 'Action' field type 'Edit' (no quotes)
- In the 'application used to perform action' field enter:
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" "%1"
- Click on 'OK'

For some reason if you view a PDF file on a web page, Internet Explorer
always open Acrobat rather that Acrobat reader. The above does not change
this; anyone know how to do so?

[News]

That's because IE uses a plug-in to open a pdf directly in the browser.

I believe that simply replacing the nppdf32.dll file in c:\program
files\internet explorer\plugins, which is the Acrobat's version, with the
Reader's version should do the trick. I don't remember exactly how I used to
do it since I don't mind using the full version now that I have a much
faster computer...

Alternatively, I think simply deleting it (try renaming it first! :) would
force IE to use the defautl behavior and open an external Reader viewer, as
you propose.