http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Discussion forum for doPDF users. en Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:16:06 +0000 http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/why-files-open-in-acrobat-not-reader#post-662 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:56:04 +0000 Softland 662@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Excellent tutorial Melvin, I moved it to the Tutorials section. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/why-files-open-in-acrobat-not-reader#post-658 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:36:17 +0000 Melvin 658@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Hi DocW,</p> <p>I had a similar problem, and found a solution for Windows XP. First, I'll tell you my solution, and then I'll describe how I came up with that solution.</p> <p>1) The solution is to modify your registry, specifically ...</p> <p>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ AcroExch.Document.7 \ shell \ Open \ command</p> <p>... to point to your Reader application, instead of Acrobat.</p> <p>For example, I changed the entry to the following (I'm using Reader 9.1):</p> <p>[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document.7\shell\Open\command]<br /> @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\" \"%1\""</p> <p>If you're using Reader 8.0, then you'll need to change the directory path of course, and you should verify your actual path since it could be different.</p> <p>NOTE (an alternative workaround): Before I made this mod, I could also open Reader first before printing, and the document created by doPDF would be opened in Reader instead of Acrobat.</p> <p>2) How did I know this? I used Sysinternals' Process Monitor to watch what doPDF is doing within the guts of Windows during a print, and this registry value is one that doPDF is accessing on my computer to determine which application to open. </p> <p>I don't know if my fix will work on your machine, but I think it'd be worth a try. If it doesn't, you might try Process Monitor to see if your machine is using a different registry key to determine which app to launch.</p> <p>WARNING: Please be sure to backup your registry, or at least export HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document.7 before modifying this key. With this key exported to a file before you make this mod, you'll have the ability to restore the registry to it's previous value. </p> <p>Hope this helps!<br /> Melvin</p> <p>P.S. I had tried changing the .pdf file association, but it didn't make any difference. Plus, I have a really old version of Acrobat, and have installed and updated Reader many times since Acrobat was installed. Finally, the AcroExch.Document.7 key is not accessible through the Window's File Types. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/why-files-open-in-acrobat-not-reader#post-653 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:09:03 +0000 Softland 653@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Probably you installed CS3 after reader, and it associated the pdf extension with cs3. Try right-clicking and selecting Open With for a pdf, and mark "always use this program to open this type of document" (or something similar it says for that option) and see if that works. If not I would recommend installing the newest version of Adobe Reader and maybe it will associate pdf by default with it. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/why-files-open-in-acrobat-not-reader#post-650 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:53:39 +0000 DocW 650@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Greetings,</p> <p>I have both CS 3 and Reader 8 installed. When I use doPDF, the resulting file opens in Acrobat instead of Reader despite the fact that I have my system set to open .PDF files with Reader (Acrobat and the other components of CS3 take much longer to load).</p> <p>Can you please advise how I can get the files created by doPDF to open in Reader rather than Acrobat? </p>