PDF FILES PREVIEW

My pdf files used to open with Mac's Preview application but by mistake when I downloaded Adobe Reader, I checked the box that said all pdf files will open with adobe. How do I get my pds files to open again with PREVIEW???? HELP!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Adobe Reader is awful. (or I messed up). Everything was just clicking away working fine
until I downloaded the new version...and nothing will open anymore. Reloaded the program,
deleted everything, redid everything...nothing.
So Preview it is....for everything.
Anyone know what the problem is with the Adobe Reader?

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Hi,
Welcome to MSDN.
It seems that this is not the proper forum for this issue, since it is related to third-party.
I found a similar thread in the forums of Adobe
Adobe Community: Acrobat Reader 9.1 ActiveX control problems which shows that :
As for "HRESULT E_FAIL" message, all that was wrong was the "Display PDF in browser" option in
Adobe Reader preferences. It needs to be ticked. A bit weird but considering
that it uses the same OCX in a web browser, it makes some sense."
It seems that installing Reader 9.1 on my development machine and compiling a
new version of the application fixes the problem (at least the second one).
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PDF file previewed as an attachment to email differs from original

I have a pdf of a book cover that was created from an InDesign file.
It is a four-color book cover spread. I cropped the file and resaved with a new name to show only the front cover (the right side of the file).
I emailed this to a client and when they opened it, it showed the complete, uncropped version and the colors were missing.
I tested this several times and when the file is actually downloaded, it is correct.
But if it is "previewed" within the email client (AOL & Yahoo), this weird uncropped two-color version appears. I've been working with and emailing pdfs since Acrobat 4 and have never encountered anything like this.
Any idea what's happening?

Hello Bill, Thanks for weighing in. I had an 11X17 pdf provided by a designer that shows a book cover "spread" that was created in InDesign.
The back cover is shown on the left, the front cover on the right. I needed to create a sample for a book that is to be published soon that would include the front cover as the first page of the pdf and the back cover as the last page. I opened the 11X17 pdf in Photoshop CS 6 and made cropped versions of the front and back, saving them as jpgs. In Acrobat I created pdfs of the front and back jpgs and inserted those into the sample. The customer posted this to his website, here:
http://academicsofflight.com/
If you click on the "Coming Soon" link it takes you to the download of the sample.
When users download the file it is fine: a 12 page 880 KB pdf. But if they click and view it on their device, the first page shows the original uncropped version of the cover, without the colors (it shows up with a white background).
The customer complained and I emailed him the pdf I provided after checking to confirm that it was correct. But when I "viewed" it from the message I sent in Firefox using the Yahoo PDF viewer I got the same results (and was both mystified and mortified).
The first page is supposed to look exactly like the thumbnail on the website below "Coming Soon"
I have never seen anything like this in many years of using Photoshop and Acrobat. I'm on Photoshop CS6, Acrobat X, anf Firefox 28.

PREVIEW 3.0.9 SUDDENLY STOPPED RENDERING PDF FILES PROPERLY. How to fix?

I have been using Preview to open PDF files on the MacBook Pro since I bought it a little less than a year ago. Then just the other day, I opened a PDF file and it looked horrible. The color was missing. Part of the text was missing. Some of the text was present and in the right place. (I had not made any recent changes to my self. No software or hardware added or removed recently.)
I am fairly certain that the problem is with Preview or some other Apple program or utility that works with it. I sent by e-mail the PDF file to my wife's PC. I then opened the PDF file in the Adobe Reader on her machine that it was rendered perfectly.
One other thing: In my frustration I went to the Adobe site and downloaded Adobe PDF reader for Mac. And I think installed it. But when I try to open a PDF file, Preview opens it, regardless of whatever else I do. Even if I have Preview closed and Adobe PDF reader for Mac open, Preview jumps in and opens the PDF file. And it looks horrible.
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2) Learn how to control what program opens PDF files.
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REG CROWDER
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Hi Reg,
Is this happening with all PDF files, or just this one that you mentioned in your post?
2) Learn how to control what program opens PDF files.
There's a few different ways to do this.
1. Open Adobe Reader and simply drag-n-drop the PDF file onto the Adobe Reader icon that appears in the Dock
2. Right-click (or hold the ctrl key and click on a single button mouse/trackpad) the PDF file and choose Open With... > Adobe Reader
3. Select the PDF file, then press command+i to bring up the information window and change the default application towards the bottom of that window.
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My preview has been acting up. When I double click on a .pdf file Preview starts up but the contents of the file are not displayed. Then when I double click on the file icon again, the file gets opened. Some files never open, but when I restart Preview they open (in the same way as above).
Also, when I select some of the menu items from Preview nothing happens (such as "About Preview".
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Yes. Word 2007. (You can see it in Preview if you do ⌘I or choose Tools > Show Inspector.) And it's the transparency issue. The three pics attached show the Jan 2012 newsletter (a) in Preview, (b) in Acrobat Pro, (c) again in Preview, after I saved it in Acrobat, flattening the transparency.
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<http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-01.html>
For them, I don't know. Presumably, they wish max compatibility for their newsletter, but I really don't know how Office 2007 generates PDF. Maybe they should check transparency settings and flatten before generating PDF? Or perhaps save as PDF v1.4 instead of PDF v1.5? I would use Distiller, but perhaps they can't afford it.

A simple and free way of reducing PDF file size using Preview

Note: this is a copy and update of a 5 year old discussion in the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard discussions which you can find here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/6109398#6109398
This is a simple and free solution I found to reduce the file size of PDFs in OS X, without the high cost and awful UI of Acrobat Pro, and with acceptable quality. I still use it every day, although I have Acrobat Pro as part of Adove Creative Cloud subscription.
Since quite a few people have found it useful and keep asking questions about the download location and destination of the filters, which have changed since 2007, I decided to write this update, and put it in this more current forum.
Here is how to install it:
Download the filters here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41548940/PDF%20compression%20filters%20%28Un zip%20and%20put%20in%20your%20Library%20folder%29.zip
Unzip the downloaded file and copy the filters in the appropriate location (see below).
Here is the appropriate location for the filters:
This assumes that your startup disk's name is "Macintosh HD". If it is different, just replace "Macintosh HD" with the name of your startup disk.
If you are running Lion or Mountain Lion (OS X 10.7.x or 10.8.x) then you should put the downloaded filters in "Macintosh HD/Library/PDF Services". This folder should already exist and contain files. Once you put the downloaded filters there, you should have for example one file with the following path:
"Macintosh HD/Library/PDF Services/Reduce to 150 dpi average quality - STANDARD COMPRESSION.qfilter"
If you are running an earlier vesion of OS X (10.6.x or earlier), then you should put the downloaded filters in "Macintosh HD/Library/Filters" and you should have for example one file with the following path:
"Macintosh HD/Library/Filters/Reduce to 150 dpi average quality - STANDARD COMPRESSION.qfilter"
Here is how to use it:
Open a PDF file using Apple's Preview app,
Choose Export (or Save As if you have on older version of Mac OS X) in the File menu,
Choose PDF as a format
In the "Quartz Filter" drop-down menu, choose a filter "Reduce to xxx dpi yyy quality"; "Reduce to 150 dpi average quality - STANDARD COMPRESSION" is a good trade-off between quality and file size
Here is how it works:
These are Quartz filters made with Apple Colorsinc Utility.
They do two things:
downsample images contained in a PDF to a target density such as 150 dpi,
enable JPEG compression for those images with a low or medium setting.
Which files does it work with?
It works with most PDF files. However:
It will generally work very well on unoptimized files such as scans made with the OS X scanning utility or PDFs produced via OS X printing dialog.
It will not further compress well-optimized (comrpessed) files and might create bigger files than the originals,
For some files it will create larger files than the originals. This can happen in particular when a PDF file contains other optomizations than image compression. There also seems to be a bug (reported to Apple) where in certain circumstances images in the target PDF are not JPEG compressed.
What to do if it does not work for a file (target PDF is too big or even larger than the original PDF)?
First,a good news: since you used a Save As or Export command, the original PDF is untouched.
You can try another filter for a smaller size at the expense of quality.
The year being 2013, it is now quite easy to send large files through the internet using Dropbox, yousendit.com, wetransfer.com etc. and you can use these services to send your original PDF file.
There are other ways of reducing the size of a PDF file, such as apps in the Mac App store, or online services such as the free and simple http://smallpdf.com
What else?
Feel free to use/distribute/package in any way you like.

Thanks ioscar.
The original link should be back online soon.
I believe this is a Dropbox error about the traffic generated by my Dropbox shared links.
I use Dropbox mainly for my business and I am pretty upset by this situation.
Since the filters themsemves are about 5KB, I doubt they are the cause for this Dropbox misbehavior!
Anyway, I submitted a support ticket to Dropbox, and hope everything will be back to normal very soon.
In the meantime, if you get the same error as ioscar when trying to download them, you can use the link in the blog posting he mentions.
This is out of topic, but for those interested, here is my understanding of what happened with Dropbox.
I did a few tests yesterday with large (up to 4GB) files and Dropbox shared links, trying to find the best way to send a 3 hour recording from French TV - French version of The Voice- to a friend's 5 year old son currently on vacation in Florida, and without access to French live or catch up TV services. One nice thing I found is that you can directly send the Dropbox download URL (the one from the Download button on the shared link page) to an AppleTV using AirFlick and it works well even for files with a large bitrate (except of course for the Dropbox maximum bandwidth per day limit!). Sadly, my Dropbox shared links were disabled before I could send anything to my friend.
I may have used a significant amount of bandwidth but nowhere near the 200GB/day limit of my Dropbox Pro account.
I see 2 possible reasons to Dropbox freaking out:
- My Dropbox Pro account is wronngly identified as a free account by Dropbox. Free Dropbox accounts have a 20GB/day limit, and it is possible that I reached this limit with my testing, I have a fast 200Mb/s internet access.
- Or Dropbox miscalculates used bandwidth, counting the total size of the file for every download begun, and I started a lot of downloads, and skipped to the end of the video a lot of times on my Apple TV.

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in my office I have a problem with preview PDF files on my computers. The files are allright, but if I select a file and click on preview mode after ~ 10sec operation system write something "Preview this file is corrupt for PDF Preview Handler wrong". On other 64bit computers with same programs the preview is work. I try uninstall all Adobe soft (Reader, Flash), clean all Adobe data from folders in root and in register, but it is not solve this problem. On Microsoft forums wrote me, that the problem is probably with AR plugin.
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Opening these PDFs in Acrobat Reader does not show any problems, it only occurs when viewing them in the Preview app and in Safari (which uses the Preview app, it seems to me). All of our other PDFs do not have any problems.
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This could be part of the problem > Known Issues | Adobe products on Mac OS 10.7 Lion
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Sometimes files are attached to PDFs so that the attached file (spreadsheet, movie, whatever) comes along with the PDF. It's easy to see the attached files using Acrobat Reader (you click on the paperclip icon), but I can't figure out how to see them in Preview. Is this possible? Please note that I am talking about attachments within PDF files, not PDFs attached to emails!
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The earlier post was my first attempt at posting and had some typos. Repeated with typos corrected.
I have a Macbook Pro Retina 13" Late 2013 with preinstalled Mavericks.I now have the 10.9.1 update. Almost from the time of purchase in Nov '13, I have been experiencing freezes and slow & unresponsive trackpad. I have more or less narrowed this symptom as happening when viewing downloaded PDF files. The only option is to force eject, if available or shut down. I spoke to Support as I thought it was a RAM issue and they told me that in Mavericks RAM showing almost full was normal as it uses RAM differently. They took me through some resets and cleaning up which has helped a little but freezing stll happens. This never happened with my Macbook AIr running Lion. Any suggestions?
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So a PDF file that you can view in Preview on your MBA causes your new MBP to lock up and/or slow down. Is this right? Also you say more or less narrowed down to PDFs with Preview but does the computer exhibit this behavior with other programs and if so under what conditions? And how much free hard drive space do you have?
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