Viewing pdf's with adobe Acrobat

I have a Mac running OS 10.3 and it can open PDF documents in the apple preview application, but it can not open PDF images in the same application. Is there a way to disable preview as the default PDF viewer so that adobe can be the default viewer?
varoius Mac OS X (10.3)

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
I think this will do what you want:
From the finder, locate one of the pdf files. Select it (single-click only; don't open it), then click the "Info" icon in the toolbar (blue circle with a white "i").
That should bring up a window with various info about the file. Most of the way down is a box showing the application it will open with. Click the arrows on the side of the box, and you can select another application (like Adobe).
That will change just the file you're looking at. But below that is a button where you can say "Change All" such documents.

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