Default PDF handler

Hi,
I've installed Adobe's Reader and Acrobat Professional on my Mac, and one of them is now the default handler for PDFs on Safari. How can I revert to the default settings?
Thanks

Hi,
If you want Safari to open PDF's go to a PDF file on your hard drive then right or control click that file then click Get Info.
Click the pop up menu next to: Open with
Select Safari or your default PDF reader.
Click: Change All
Carolyn

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MIS just installed Acrobat XI for me, and now all PDFs from the web open in the Browser, which is not the way I usually operate. I went to Preferences > General in both programs, and in both the "Select default PDF handler" option is greyed out. Any suggestions?
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Go to Edit-> prefrences-> Internet and Change the settings to open PDF In browser.
Please See the below Link :
http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/display-pdf-browser-acrobat-xi.html

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I downloaded a trial of Adobe Acrobat...didn't buy it. Have Adobe Reader, but the default is now Adobe Acrobat. How do I change it so I can download to/with Adobe Reader?

In either app, choose Edit > Preferences > General > Select default PDF handler.

Many of our users can't open PDFs. We have to select Reader as the Default PDF Handler once a day.

What was once an infrequent problem, has become a chronic issue since some changes were made to Group Policy by an AD admin. We've disabled all the GPs that pertain to Acrobat, but we're still having to log into users' workstations to remind Acrobat Reader that it is the Default PDF Handler (as found under Edit>Preferences>General.)
As I mentioned above, this used to happen occassionally, and I'm not really sure why. We use versions 9.5, X and XI, and all of them have exhibited this problem in the past and currently. If we could find a network-wide solution to this issue (rather than having to log into scores of individual workstations every day), we would be really happy.
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We think we've found the answer. Apparently, an admin from six years ago had created an ironically named batch file called "Adobe Fix.bat" which called a login script to put the following registry key on every computer:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 8.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\""
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After installing Reader XI, why can't Acrobat be set as default PDF handler?

I've tried everything I know, including a clean boot. Every time I try to set Win7 to open PDFs with Acrobat (Version 8.3.1), it sets it back to Reader XI.
From inside Reader/Preferences/General/Select Default PDF Handler, Reader XI is the only option. Acrobat isn't listed.

Unfortunately there is no option post installation with Acrobat 8 to change PDF ownership. However this is possbile Acrobat 10 onwards. But yYou can choose to make Reader XI the default PDF handler during installation itself.
1. Go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs, select the entry "Adobe Reader XI" and Un-install.
2. Then visit link : http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/ and choose the Reader which you need.
3. When you double click the EXE, then a screen will come showing extraction of files. As soon as extraction ends, installation will begin and you will be presented with following screen :
4. Uncheck the checkbox which says "Make Adobe Reader my default PDF viewer"
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I am testing 3rd party crypto suite integration into Acrobat. Each time I fire it up it pesters me again to set the default PDF handler for OS X to Acrobat Pro which I never, ever want.
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I am wondering if there is a registry setting that can disable the pop-up Make Adobe Reader my default PDF Application ?
I have seen there is a setting under Edit\Preferences\General\"Tell me if Adobe Reader is not my default PDF Application" but cannot find a registry setting to disable this. This message pops up for some users in a remote desktop session host environment even though I have disabled the messages on the session hosts.
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Hi Andrew_Dell,
Thank You for posting on the forums. Kindly try the below mentioned steps and check ,if it helps.
1) launch adobe Reader
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5) Choose adobe Reader
After performing this workflow, you might see an installation window. do not worry, it is just a new configuration of PDF handler being updated in the system.
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Vikrantt Singh

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1. Go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs, select the entry "Adobe Reader XI" and Un-install.
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PDF handler issue reading Schwab brokerage statements

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might make a difference, I tried clicking on the same sites' .pdf files in
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I have a Windows 2008 x64 Server that I have installed both Adobe Pro X and Adobe Reader X on. I have installed Pro first, then Reader, both with MST files, so that Reader is the default PDF viewer. Reader shows as the default program and if you double click on a PDF document, Reader does indeed open. However, if a hyperlink in Word or some other document points to a PDF file, Adobe Pro opens instead. I need to make Reader the default application for all references to PDF files, but I need to keep Pro and Reader installed on the server at the same time.
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I'm recently switched from Konqueror to Firefox @ KDE. Everything works fine, but one thing that irritates me is that FF doesn't know how to use the KDE mime types DB. So for every file (doc/pdf/odt/xls etc) I have to point to the correct binary using the truly annoying file browser dialogue from Firefox.
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