Adobe Acrobat vs Preview

how use preview as preferred application to open pdf files

Select any PDF document, then Get Info... from the File menu.
Choose Preview from the "Open with:" selection, then Change All... and acknowledge the change dialog.

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Adobe Acrobat Print Preview not supported

I have Adobe Acrobat 8.2.0 and have been having this issue (not really a problem but it bugs me) where when I go to print a PDF and click on preview before sending the document to the printer I always get this message pop up that says "Preview is not supported." I just like to be able to get an idea of what things will look like before potentially wasting paper.
Is this normal and expected or is there something I can do to get print preview to work?

It's normal and expected because Acrobat has a more powerful printing and preview capability than Preview, so running output through Preview would just dumb it down.
If you set up your Page Setup right, the preview in the Acrobat Print dialog (Copies and Pages) is pretty effective for predicting print size and position relative to the true print margins. For color previewing, if you use Advanced/Print Production/Output Preview in Acrobat it, too, blows away the soft proofing in Preview.

Getting overprint preview preference in Adobe Acrobat 9

Hello,
yesterday I installed the Adobe Acrobat 9 Trial and I tried my plugin.
Does anyone know how to get the overprint preview setting?
In older version of Adobe Acrobat I'm using following code:
AVAppGetPrefBool(DSAVSettings[prefNumber].m_section, DSAVSettings[prefNumber].m_name, (ASBool)DSAVSettings[prefNumber].m_requiredValue_9);
m_section is "Originals" and m_name is "OverPrintPreview".
In Adobe Acrobat 9 it always returns the default value m_requiredValue_9 which means that the setting can not be found?
Do I have to change the value of m_section or m_name or do I have to use an other method?
Thanks for your help!
Christian Wiesbauer

I'm having a problem with securing specific fields. Not sure if that can be done. I have a form that I created in LiveCycle Designer and the forms contains fields that create a basic calculation for example (Qty+Price=Total). I want those fields to be field out by our sales people and I want them to save the form with the info. field in and email to customer as a quote basically, but I don't want the customer to be able to change those numbers, but I do want the customer to fill in other portions of the field. Having a problem doing this cause Acrobat is only letting me secure the whole form and not just portions. Is there a way to only secure portions of a form. Please help ASAP.
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Printing Crystal Reports without calling Adobe Acrobat preview window

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CA Forum: General
Hi, each time a click a Print icon in a Crystal report preview toolbar, it opens a dialog box which opens an Adobe Acrobat preview window. Is it possible to print a Crystal report without calling Adobe Acrobat window?
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Post Author: lakarne
CA Forum: General
I want to know if I useing Crystal Reports xi and want print without calling Adobe Acrobat preview window, how can I do it?

I used to be able to see a preview of my scan which i can no longer see only the adobe acrobat symbol I am using Adobe pro 9 can this be changed??

I used to be able to see a preview of my scan which i can no longer see only the adobe acrobat symbol I am using Adobe pro 9 can this be changed??

Yes, that appears how Mavericks works right now. However, you can open the Address Panel, select all your contacts, then click the To (or CC, or Bcc) buttons to move the selection to the address field.
If it is not already in the Toolbar, right-click on the Toolbar and select Customize Toolbar…
Then, drag the address panel up to wherever you want it.
You may also want to add it to the New Message window in the same way.

Adobe thumbnail preview does not work in adobe acrobat 8.0

Hi ,
I have user login using his profile and suddenly his not able to view thumbnail preview of PDF file using navigation panel but the thumbnail preview
work in administrator profile.
Si, I guess some settings blocking in user profile to view thumbnail preview.
I have checked the settings that I know but it still does not work.
Please advise.
It is adobe acrobat 8.0 professional using win XP SP3

Thanks for answering my queries.
Could you please let get me the following details as well:
1. The version of Adobe Reader installed on your system.
2. The default PDF viewing application on your system. You can find the same by double clicking on a PDF on your system and see which application is used to render the PDF.
3. The value of the following registries:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Software\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document.7\shell\Open\command
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document.7\shell\Read\command
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Why certain functionality works in Adobe Acrobat, but not in LiveCycle Preview PDF?

I have some simple logic in a LiveCycle form that will hide a subform when I click a checkbox. When I save as dynamic PDF and open in Adobe Acrobat 9, it works fine, but when I test the .xdp in LiveCycle Preview PDF it does not. I'm new to JavaScript and have wasted some time troubleshooting what I thought was a problem, only to find out it was working. Am I doing something that is not capatible with Preview PDF?
Attached below are images of hierarchy, design, and code. I realize the hierarchy is more complex than it needs to be. It is an excerpt I built to test this functionality, based on the full document.
Thanks.
form1.diag.Cervical.show::click - (JavaScript, client)
if (this.rawValue == 1) {narrative.Cervical.mre.presence = "visible"} else {narrative.Cervical.mre.presence = "hidden"}
form1.narrative.Cervical.mre::initialize - (JavaScript, client)
this.presence = "hidden";

Did you made the form as Dynamic and Interactive in the preview..
     1) Goto File menu -> Form Properties and select Defaults tab. Change the Default Render Format as Dynamic XML form
     2) Select the Preview Tab. Set the Preview type as "Interactive Form" and Preview Adobe XML form as Dynamic XML form
     3) Finally while saving the PDF select Save As Type as "Adobe Dynamic XML Form".
Thanks
Srini

Why does Preview not display some PDF content which is visible in Adobe Acrobat?

I have occasionally received PDFs from multiple different sources for which some content (words, checkmarks, etc) simply does not appear in Preview. The full content does appear when view with Adobe Reader. Unfortunately, when viewing in Preview, there is no indication that anything is missing.
What is going on here? Is there some solution? I prefer Preview because it is fast ans versitile, but if it doesn't actually display the whole thing...

The answer is that some pdf options are not available in Preview. Adobe has a number of annotation and graphics and even file linking options which do not carry through to Preview. In other words, Preview is not 100% compatible with Adobe Acrobat, Preview is less capable, although it can generally handle probably 99% of what people do in pdf format. But there is a small collection of things that do not come through properly with Preview.
One obvious example is forms. While this may not be the situation you are asking about, note that Adobe Acrobat can create forms that one can fill out with Acrobat Reader. These forms have cells and one can go through them and enter text or information into those cells with Adobe's software. Sometimes the forms even include boxes to be checked or highlighted and so forth, all possible with a click using Adobe's own software. However Preview often is unable to enter the data on those forms. Again, the reason is that for certain somewhat advanced options, Preview does not have every capability that Adobe Acrobat (or Acrobat reader) has.
For simple stuff, however, Preview generally works well.

Safari 7.0.6, using Adobe Acrobat 11.0.10, aren't rendering pdf files in the Print Preview screen. Additionally, only a single, blank page prints for a multi-page pdf document. Any ideas?

Safari 7.0.6, using Adobe Acrobat 11.0.10, isn't rendering pdf files in the Print Preview screen. Additionally, only a single, blank page prints for a multi-page pdf document. Any ideas?

Figured it out. It had nothing to do with the software levels of Safari or Adobe Acrobat. Here's the fix:
Open Finder/Applications
Search "Internet Plug-Ins"
Move any Adobe plug-ins to the trash
Quit Safari
Launch Safari
Your pdf document should now render in Print Preview and print properly.

Can Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 function as a previewer in windows folders?

I use Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 and want my .pdf files to only open with adobe pro, I also want to have a previewer option in file folders. With adobe pro 9 only on my machine I do not have the previewer capabilities and when I download abobe reader that program acts as the default.
Is it possible to have the best of both worlds?

Moving this discussion to the Acrobat Installation & Update Issues forum.

Why don't pdf open in Preview, it asks where Adobe Acrobat is located? I never used Acrobat and do not want to use it.

I am using Safari 5.0.5 and open a page that is a PDF and only a black screen comes up and asks where I have Adobe Acrobat. I do not have Acrobat and want to use preview. I looked in the Safari preferences and there is no place to set it so PDFs only use Preview. Please help!
John

Right or control click a PDF file you already have on the hard drive then click Get Info.
In the Get Info panel from the pop up menu next to: Open with
Select: Preview
Then click: Change All

Preview vs. Adobe Reader/Adobe Acrobat?

I am making a PDF from Pages. When I open the PDF in Preview it looks identical to the Pages file. When I open it in Adobe Reader or Acrobat Pro it looks as if the colors have been shifted from RGB to CMYK; they don't quite match, they all look slightly duller.
Is it that the Adobe apps are somehow set to default to CMYK? i can't find anywhere in the Preferences that gives this choice. But why would the PDF look different from Pages/Preview?

This looks interesting fane–j. I'm looking at Acrobat Pro's prefs right now. Lots of choices. Riight at the top it says Settings: Color Management Off
I don't think Preview allows me to set 'Color Spaces' ... so I don't know what it is using. So I can't simply match up the Adobe to the Preview. I don't think.
I will print out versions from each app ... to see if in the printing process they come out the same (that the difference is only on the display monitor). But I seem to remember from awhile back - that the Preview printed what looked like an RGB print, and the Adobe printed what looked like a CMYK file. Very different.

Adobe Acrobat X Pro: Create PDF Portfolio not previewing Word docs

******BUG******
Concise problem statement:
Word documents won't preview on an Adobe PDF Portfolio, while other Office documents (Excel, PowerPoint, etc) will. It only shows a Word icon on the preview and you have to double-click the file to open it on actual word. This is not the way Acrobat is supposed to behave.
NOTE: Adobe Acrobat 10.1.2 (latest version) and Office 2010 Suite w/ SP1 installed.
Steps to reproduce bug:
1. Create a PDF Portfolio
2. Add Word (.doc, .docx) files to the Portfolio
3. Click on Preview and you will see a Word icon instead of a thumbnail preview.
Results:
You will see a word icon
Expected results:
A thumbnail preview of the document like it happens with Excel, PowerPoint, etc...
Can you guys reproduce this error? What do you think?

Here is what I am talking about...
Those files should be previewed and not just display a thumbnail with a Word icon.

Why do I have to remove Adobe Acrobat in order to link pdf files using Preview?

Whenever I try to link pdfs to make a single file, Adobe Acrobat opens automatically and prevents me from linking them, instead demanding that I pay money for a subscription. Instead, I have to remove Adobe, at which point I can open Preview, and then I can link the files.
Is there any way to link documents without having to remove and then reinstall Adobe?
I have an iMac 10.6.8 and the latest Adobe that will install.

Adobe Acrobat aborts when using LiveCycle Designer PDF Preview tab.

Whenever I try to use the PDF preview tab in LiveCycle Designer, Adobe Acrobat aborts. I get the notice that "Adobe Acrobat 8.1 has encoutered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Yadda, yadda, yadda,....." .
The error signature is:

Please increase your Buffer memeory for appalications.
Before you go for a preview. try to kill the exisitign process of adobe reader.
We need to see hte size of the XDP being generated.
If it is over 20 0r 30 MB, we may need to bring it down to 2 - 4 MB.
Again if the problem still persists, Re install the acrobat and try.
Lastly, check if the same problem happens when you use a adobe reader 8.1.3 or 9.4 (stable versions).

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