Open print form in adobe reader (not acrobat)

Hi there,
I have a print form scenario where the form is opened from an ABAP web dynpro and should open in adobe reader. However the client has an older version of acrobat installed and the form is opening in this by default.
Is there a way to force it to use reader ? thanks for any advice

Of course you should be able to change this on the OS level. Like File types (or right mouse, open file, last option + check use this for all the documents of this type).
But... I was not able to change this myself. Or maybe was but any time I have used the Acrobat, it changed this setting back to Acrobat. That is clearly because Acrobat feels "something better" than the Reader:))
Otto

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