Open PDF in Acrobat?

In OSX Lion and prior versions, you'd see a PDF in a Safari browser window and then be able to roll over the icons near the bottom of that browser window and select "Open in Acrobat", I liked that feature alot and used it daily many times.
What has become of that feature in Safari 6 and Mountain Lion now? Why was it removed?
Is there a way to put it back or make it functional again?

They are AdobePDFViewer.plugin and AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin.
Those are the plugins. If they aren't working, I suggest you remove them.
When I click on Get Info for these two items I get, General > Kind: Soundbooth Plugin
That's an unrelated issue. It just means that the developer of "Soundbooth," whatever that is, is incompetent.

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Opening PDFs in Acrobat XI Outside Chrome Browser

Acrobat XI
From Google Chrome, I would like to open a PDF which automatically opens Acrobat outside Chrome i.e. inside Acrobat itself.
I do not want to first save the PDF and then open it.
I want Chrome to download and then open the PDF in Acrobat.
Acrobat 9 would do this. How do you do this in Acrobat XI?
Thanks in advance.

Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit SP1
Chrome Version 37.0.2062.103 m
Acrobat XI v11.0.08
Chrome Browser & Acrobat
"To have Chrome download PDFs instead of displaying them in the browser,
shift-click Disable for the currently enabled viewer.
This leaves both viewer plug-ins disabled so the PDFs won't display in the browser."
There are two plugins shown via "chrome://plugins/".
Adobe Reader - Version: 11.0.8.4
Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 11.0.8
Only one plugin can be enabled at a time.
If you disable one, the other automatically becomes enabled.
This behavior is not intuitive.
If either is enabled, the PDF will appear in the Chrome browser.
To open PDFs in Acrobat XI outside the Chrome Browser, you must disable both plugins.
To disable both plugins, Shift-Click Disable the enabled plugin.
This will disable both plugins.
Using Shift-Click Disable is not intuitive behavior.
Now when you click on a PDF on a web page, the Chrome browser will not have a plugin to handle the PDF so it will bring up a Save dialog box.
Go ahead and save the PDF somewhere like Downloads.
The Chrome browser will show at the bottom of the browser window a reference to the downloaded PDF.
In the drop-list, select "Always open this file type".
Now PDFs open in Acrobat XI outside the Chrome browser.

How to open pdf in acrobat reader in read mode by default?

Thanks for your quick feedbacks.

PDL,
Am getting the Error "No form is open in the Acrobat viewer" while trying to instantiate fields list inside the form via an AcroForms object. The problematic code snippet is given below
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ipFormApp->CreateDispatch("AFormAut.App", &OleExc)
i pFields = new IFields(pFormApp->GetFields());
The GetFields method is giving error in Acrobat 9 but its working fine in Acrobat 7 and 8.
Since the AV layer methods are working fine in Acrobat 7 and 8, please let me know why they are not working in Acrobat 9 and if there is any workaround.
Also, if I use only PD Layer methods, can I access the form fields inside the PDF?

How to open pdf in Acrobat Reader in Firefox window/Tab when both Acrobat Pro and Acrobat REader are

I would like to open pdf files in firefox using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
I have both Acrobat Pro or whatever its called and Acrobat Reader installed.
Presently going to firefox's tools, options, then selecting the file types option I cannot select any plugin to open my pdf's besides what's labeled as "adobe acrobat" but which executes an in-tab instance of Adobe Acrobat Pro, despite the ambiguous language on the plugin which I suspect stems from Adobe's evolving and confusing conventions regarding just what Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and Adobe Acrobat Pro really is.
Anyways, how to make pdfs open in-tab instances of Adobe Acrobat Reader while I have both the Reader and the Pro installed?
Is there a sepperate plugin I need or something?
Any help is very Appreciated

eh,
The problem w/ acrobat is that it takes forever to load
I was going to just use reader to read documents, and acrobat to edit, so I could gut reader of all the plugins worthless for 99.9999 of pdfs I use and it'll load fast.
foxit is nice, but won't open in-browser despite their continuing claims of supporting this feature.
That's so bizarre that adobe won't allow you to choose which one you want to run. Its installed as sepperate programs on the uninstall list, on the "open with" context menu, and w/ file associations, so why would it not be possible to only open pdf links w/ one?
Maybe its time to abandon acrobat and just use reader. There's much cheaper programs w/ all the same functionality as acrobat, so I guess I'll move on to those.
If anyone else has suggestions feel free to make em.

How to open PDF in Acrobat 9 without displaying the Acrobat window

Am using IAC in Windows XP via VC++ to open and modify PDFs in memory without displaying the Acrobat window so as to the PDF Processing in the background. To open the PDF, have to call the method PDDoc.OpenAVDoc which opens the Acrobat window for displaying the document.
As a workaround, I tried to minimize and hide the Acrobat viewer, using the AcroApp.Minimize and AcroApp.Hide methods. However opening, minimizing and hiding the viewer is creating a flickering effect (Acrobat window coming and going) especially when a no of PDFs have to be processed in a loop.
If I use only PDDoc.Open without the call to OpenAVDoc, am getting an error "No form is open in the Acrobat viewer".
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PDL,
Am getting the Error "No form is open in the Acrobat viewer" while trying to instantiate fields list inside the form via an AcroForms object. The problematic code snippet is given below
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iAVDoc->AttachDispatch(PDDoc->OpenAVDoc("PDFFileName")), true);
ipFormApp->CreateDispatch("AFormAut.App", &OleExc)
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The GetFields method is giving error in Acrobat 9 but its working fine in Acrobat 7 and 8.
Since the AV layer methods are working fine in Acrobat 7 and 8, please let me know why they are not working in Acrobat 9 and if there is any workaround.
Also, if I use only PD Layer methods, can I access the form fields inside the PDF?

Unable to open pdf after acrobat install

Have adobe reader installed, all working fine. Then installed adobe acrobat pro in order to use export to pdf capability. After some time, getting message not subscribed even though I paid for a subscription to use export pdf through acrobat.
I uninstalled acrobat from machine and contacted adobe who said the export to pdf facility in online and not something you install on a PC !!!
They talked me through using the export to pdf online and now I can't open any pdfs on my PC plus the no subscription messages still keep appearing !!!

Hi discoveranother,
If you have already purchased Acrobat then you need not use the Export pdf Online service.
You can use Acrobat to convert pdf to .doc / xlsx /ppt files and vice versa.
Please check : http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdf-to-word-doc-converter.html
Regards,
Rave

Open pdf in acrobat (reader)

Is it possible somehow to open a downloaded Adobe Digital Editions pdf in Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Reader?

eh,
The problem w/ acrobat is that it takes forever to load
I was going to just use reader to read documents, and acrobat to edit, so I could gut reader of all the plugins worthless for 99.9999 of pdfs I use and it'll load fast.
foxit is nice, but won't open in-browser despite their continuing claims of supporting this feature.
That's so bizarre that adobe won't allow you to choose which one you want to run. Its installed as sepperate programs on the uninstall list, on the "open with" context menu, and w/ file associations, so why would it not be possible to only open pdf links w/ one?
Maybe its time to abandon acrobat and just use reader. There's much cheaper programs w/ all the same functionality as acrobat, so I guess I'll move on to those.
If anyone else has suggestions feel free to make em.

FF 19 for Mac. changed preferences to open PDFs with Acrobat Reader. Now when I click on a pdf link, an about:blank FF window opens (pdf then opens)

The change in preferences opens the pdf appropriately with Acrobat Reader, as desired, but before it does, FF opens a brand new blank window (about:blank). How can that action be stopped?

Yes, I mean the eternal application.
Ctrl-click does open the dialog, but that does not cause new/blank FF window to show up.....however shift-click opens the new/blank window, then opens another FF window with a "New Tab" heading, then opens the pdf with Acrobat Reader.....
If open the dialog and select "open in new tab" (open in Acrobat Reader is not an option), a new tab is opened, and the the pdf come up in Reader (without opening a new FF window). In earlier FF, it just opened directly in Reader (or acrobat) without opening a new tab or window.
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How can I open pdfs with Acrobat directly from Firefox (Android)?

I would like to open pdfs directly with the Acrobat reader app, without downloading it (& saving it in the downloads folder). When I open a pdf, FF offers me several apps or a download, but not the Acrobat Reader, also Acrobat it mentioned as the standard application for opening pdfs.

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Why does Firefox try to open PDF with Acrobat 8 when I have Properties set to use Reader 9.1?

If I click a link to a PDF from Firefox 3.6.10 it tries to open it with Acrobat 8 and fails, while if I double-click in a folder it correctly opens with Reader 9.1
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Go to Tools|Options|Applications. The first 4 entries relate to Adobe. Make sure that the association is for your 9.1 version. If it's not, click the association that is showing. You will get a downward pointing triangle at the right. Click on it and see if 9.1 is listed. If so, select it. Do the same for the other Adobe items.
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davewdan

Open PDF with acrobat reader not preview

Hi everyone:
I have been creating cross platform projects for a while now.
I just noticed that opening PDF from director tend to open up in
"preview" not in Acrobat. Is there a way I can tell my Mac project
to open the PDFs in Acrobat, if Acrobat doesnt exist then open them
in "preview." On PC they open in Acrobat (I guess this is due to PC
not having anything that can read PDFs naively.)
By the way, I create the projects on PC, and then test them
on the Mac.
thank you,
Rafael.

Is this how it is supposed to be on Mac? Maybe I am just
asking something that I outta know...(like PDFs only open on
Preview on Macs?)
Rafael.

Browser opening pdfs in acrobat not reader

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I have a trial version of acrobat on my computer, which has now expired, i also have reader 9 on here, however, whenever I try to open a PDF in a browser, it keeps trying to open it using acrobat, I need it to open them in reader instead.
I can not figure out how to do this, any help would be greatly appreciated
Im using windows 7 & both Ie and firefox.
Thanks for your help

You may need to change the file type association for .PDF file types.
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To set File Associations in Windows 7 or Vista, Open Control Panel > Control Panel Home > Default Programs > Set Associations. Select a file type in the list and click Change Program.
You will be displayed a list of Programs along with a Description and the Current Default. You can click on the Change program to set or change the current defaults.
Alternatively, you can also Right click the file whose association you want to change > Properties > General tab > Type Of File > Change > Choose a program from the list or recommended or other programs or else click Browse to select one.

Opening pdfs with acrobat 8 no longer working

Has anyone else experienced this new issue with launching
Acrobat 8 on Windows machines from a Director-made program? I've
been using this BuddyApi script for years without incident. Now my
clients who've upgraded (sometimes unknowingly) to Acrobat 8
recently, cannot see the pdfs anymore. Acrobat simply does not open
(launch). There are no errors. Acrobat 8 on the Mac side does
continue to work properly however. This has the potential to be a
huge issue with my past and future programming. Has anyone come
across a fix or new script yet? I checked Acrobat FAQs and BuddyApi
FAQs as well as Google searches but to no avail. Any help is
appreciated.
-M
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OK, just looked at the above thread. So, does appear to be an
Arobat issue. Though
not sure why it happens on some computers and not on others.
Are there any big
differences between the working computers and non working
ones - maybe CPU. I have
just emailed Gary Smith, the developer of Buddy API to ask if
he's heard of the
issue and if he can offer any suggestions. I'll post back
here with what response I
get.
regards
Dean
Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au
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OK, just looked at the above thread. So, does appear to be an
Arobat issue.
Though not sure why it happens on some computers and not on
others. Are
there any big differences between the working computers and
non working
ones - maybe CPU. I have just emailed Gary Smith, the
developer of Buddy
API to ask if he's heard of the issue and if he can offer any
suggestions.
I'll post back here with what response I get. 
 
regards
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Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast
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