On 7/26/12 8:39 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: > >> Oh! I had forgotten all about this. The answer is that, if you >> have both Adobe Reader and Acrobat (the writer) installed, a PDF link >> in a Web page opens in whichever of these two was the last to be >> installed. > > Not quite so simple, but close. > > After installing both programs, the user can go into the Windows file > type options and set either one as the default for handling PDFs, and > that setting will overrule the order of installation. > > But in the most common scenario, where the user doesn't take this > explicit action, you're right. Whichever one you install last will take > over by setting itself as the default handler for PDFs (unless, of > course, the advanced user deselects that option during installation). > > When I had both installed, I had some really quirky behavior, and when I > ditched the Reader, things quieted down. Good advice. >
The Windows file-type options will indeed control which application opens a local PDF file. However, I found that those options were not used by SeaMonkey. For a link to a PDF file on a Web server, SeaMonkey somehow used the sequence in which the applications were installed. I don't really know if this is still true. I have not installed Acrobat (the writer) in over 6 years; I'm still using Acrobat 4.0, not wanting to pay for an upgrade. On the other hand, I keep Adobe Reader current, having installed Adobe Reader 10.1.3 earlier this year. I currently get PDF links from Web servers opening in the Adobe Reader plug-in, within a SeaMonkey window. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
