Launch PDF's into Acrobat

Sarah Reichelt sarahr at genesearch.com.au
Sun May 15 18:55:16 EDT 2005


It's important that you don't force people to use Acrobat if that is 
not their default PDF viewer. I'm not sure how you go about finding 
what IS their default but I really the programs that open an 
application if it isn't the one I would normally use.

Sarah

>
> Under OS X, you also have Preview, which in many cases does just as 
> good a job as Acrobat Reader (if not a better one), and is often much 
> faster.
>
> Acrobat Reader is also available for many UNIX platforms, and there 
> are open-source equivalents, such as Xpdf...
>
>
> On May 14, 2005, at 12:59 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>
>> On May 13, 2005, at 9:54 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>>> If you just want to display PDFs and can live without Acrobat's 
>>> features, you can display PDFs in a Player object.
>>
>> This will only work on OS X.  QuickTime doesn't support this on 
>> Windows (or OS 9 IIRC).



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