Adobe PDF Viewer

Whenever I download a PDF off the internet I get a message saying that "AdobePDFviewer cannot find an application to view the selected file, please choose an application" or something along those lines. Each time this occurs, I have to go to my applications folder and select Adobe Reader 8.0.

How can I get my computer to remember that Adobe Reader can view these files so that I do not have to select it from a list every time I download an PDF online?

I have a PowerBook G4 and am running Leopard.

Select a PDF file, click on it once, and open the "get info" window, by either right clicking, or selecting "get info", from the FILE drop down while in the finder.
When the Get Info window opens, you will see toward the bottom, "open with" Here you can select which program you like to use to open all PDFs. Click on change all, and that should make Adobe PDF viewer your default.

Why are you using Adobe Reader when preview can handle these files?

MacFanBoy said:

Why are you using Adobe Reader when preview can handle these files?

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Yeah, why load another app when Preview does the trick and is already installed?

powermac - I had already set Preview as my default viewer for all PDFs. For some reason the PDFs I am downloading online are not being loaded by Preview though and I am still forced to choose an app each time.

Do your PDFs on your system have an icon of Adobe or Preview? You may have to repeat the step to determine you default PDF reader.

They have an icon of Preview.

Try going to Library>Internet Plug-Ins (both in the main Library and your user Library - the plugin might be in either location).

Find AdobePDFViewer.plugin and delete it.

If that doesn't fix it you may have to download adobe pdf reader and change the preferences so it's not the default.

That's fixed it!

Grateful thanks for Sidewinder for that tip, worked for me!