Preview Hijacks PDF's back from Adobe on Re-boot

How do I prevent Preview from Hi-jacking control of PDF's from Adobe upon shut down?
I set ADOBE to be reader for all PDF's using "get info", then using "Change All" option under "Open With." All good, now adobe opens all pdfs, but this only lasts until I shut down. Upon restart, Preview has taken control back for opening PDF's. Anyone else have this problem? Thank you!

I had problems with Pages 2 a few times with particular images (scanned photos imported after editing with GIMP, I think) not showing up correctly in Adobe Reader (Preview was fine) – but only when the PDF had been exported from Pages using one of the many settings available for PDF making. On another export setting the same image would show up OK.
It wasn't consistent: other images prepared the same way as the problem image were fine, and the export settings (Better in the first case, Best in the second) where problems occurred were different.
My guess had been that certain photos were compressed by Pages/OSX in a way that was problematic for Adobe, but the instance where the Best setting was used seemed to bely that, since presumably under Best the images are not modified.
In each case I was able to export the PDF a different way - using the ColorSync filters - getting pretty much the same compressed size but with no problems with the images.
So, I always make sure I test my PDFs on different computers with versions of Adobe Reader before sending them out, either to a printer or for posting on a website. But that's only happened to me twice: usually there's no problem.
The other thing that has caused a problem with the printer (opening my PDF in InDesign) was a photo upon which I had multiple transparent layers of overlapping text. It was easily sorted by using a single layer. But others have had problems with layers/transparencies rendered in PDFs in Pages in the past.
There are many ways to export as a PDF or another image format, though. Open Applications/Utilities/ColorSync and look in the Help menu. Also in Preview, if you have Leopard. The Save As... menu in Preview 4.0 gives the following options, as well as containing all the ColorSync filters if you choose Format: PDF -
Format: GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, Microsoft BMP, OpenEXR, PDF, Photoshop, PICT, PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF
So yes, there is a way to send the PDF as a TIFF if you really want to.
Rhys

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I have the following situation: In our company use a software product to schedule our engineers and inform our customers when one of our engineers visits them, to do this the following steps happen:
the software product is running on a SQL server 2008 R2 database and calls a standard function from SQL server to create a PDF file (PDF version 1.3)
Then this PDF file is attached to an Email which is then sent to our customers.
Some customers don't use email but they use a fax. For this we have use an email2fax product from our telephone provider which translates the email to a fax.
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The email2fax should send the attachment as well but it's not doing that.
When I manually send an email with an attached PDF (PDF version 1.5) the attachment is sent to the customer as a fax
When I open the original PDF file created by SQL server and save it again as PDF version 1.5, then attach it to an email and send it to the email2fax the attachment gets send as well.
When I open the original PDF file created by SQL server and save it again as PDF version 1.3, then attach it to an email and send it to the email2fax the attachment gets send as well.
When we send the email from the software product, with the PDF created by SQL server in version 1.3, to another email address the attachment is included in the mail.
some conclusions so far:
The PDF file in version 1.3 is created in SQL server and is usable in all products which read PDF files, except in the email2fax solution
the email to the email2fax software contains the PDF attachment
the email2fax software can handle a PDF version 1.3 file but not the file created by SQL server.
We gave these results to the supplier of the email2fax solution and their response is: "A PDF file is a valid PDF file when it is created by Adobe software"
My conclusion would be that they are wrong as PDF is a standard created by Adobe but that doesn't mean other software products can't comply with this standard and create a valid PDF file, but I have no way of telling them how they are wrong and without a stronger argument I can't convince them to investigate the problem.
extra info:
Portable Document Format - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My questions are now:
Is there a PDF validation tool available from Adobe which would confirm that our PDF file generated by SQL server is a valid PDF file?
Or
Does anyone know if SQL server 2008R2 does create invalid PDF files and if there is a fix available to solve this behavior?
Any help in understanding this problem is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your reply and your time reading this long question.
Regards,
Arjen

It is a high order probability that your SQL's report generator is creating the PDF, not Acrobat (which by design and EULA cannot be used in as/with server).
That the report generator outputs to an old-old version of PDF bears this out.
Wiki articles on PDF are very nice for those high level intro summaries.
To know / understand PDF you purchase and study the ISO Standard for PDF (ISO 32000-1:2008).
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You can change the email2fax application to one that can deal with older PDF versions.
You can change the report generator to one that can output to the ISO Standard.
(Perhaps the in-use application can be configured to output to the current version of PDF (i.e., the ISO Standard).
Be well...

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