In the Finder, go to the View menu and choose "Show View Options". Untick "Show icon preview". They will then show their "owners" icons rather then the preview (e.g. Word documents, Excel, pdfs etc).
Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Apple** On 15/05/2013, at 10:22 AM, Rick Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, I have done that but I need to have the icons on the desktop as PDF > Icons not images. > > On 15/05/2013, at 10:08 AM, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Rick, >> >> Right Click on File Icon >> Select "Get Info" >> Go to "Open With" >> Select "Adobe Reader" >> Then use "Change All" if you wish >> >> On 15/05/2013, at 9:26 AM, Rick Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Can someone please tell me how to show pdfs as the Acrobat Icons not as >>> Image Icons on the desktop. I saw it somewhere in preferences but can't >>> find it again. >>> Thanks, Rick. >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> >> Regards, >> Stephen Chape >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
