3 Replies Latest reply: Jun 2, 2011 2:42 PM by Phillip Jones RSS

    Can't change filetype association back to Acrobat 9

    bpylant Community Member

      We installed the CS5.5 upgrade today, and right off the bat I don't really care for Acrobat X. This is not the time or place to go into it all, so please don't respond only to ask me why I feel this way... for the time being I'd like to set my PDFs to default to Acrobat 9, only using 10 when I have to.

       

      I highlight a PDF, Get Info, change Open With to Acrobat 9.4.4 and click Change All. However, that doesn't actually change anything, all my PDFs continue to open in Acrobat X.

       

      Am I missing something? Is Acrobat X overriding the system perhaps? (An older version of Freehand used to do this, which was super-annoying until they came out with a patch to fix that and about seven hundred other things.) I see that InDesign CS5.5 is doing the same thing, I'm really not sure if this is an Adobe issue or an OS X issue, but I've never had trouble changing filetype associations in the past.

       

      TIA for any tips!

       

      OS X 10.6

      Macbook Pro

        • 1. Re: Can't change filetype association back to Acrobat 9
          Phillip Jones Community Member

          the change file ype association works two ways.

           

          if you just select one file it sets asssocation for that one file.

           

          To properly set  for all files you select 5 or more PDF's  make suere some of them are PDF created by Preview

           

          Then choose  Get Sumary Info. Then click on change all. then click okay when it ask if you want tp permanently Change.

           

          If it don't work. Then adobe has introduced the bug (Feature) that MS Office has sice office2008 which overrided this system feature.

           

          Technicall They and MS are breaking the AUI guidelines they have set out how applications a features are supposed to work, if this is the case.

          • 2. Re: Can't change filetype association back to Acrobat 9
            ~graffiti CommunityMVP

            PjonesCET wrote:

             

             

             

            if you just select one file it sets asssocation for that one file.


            Not neccesarily true. It WILL however only set the association for that particular type of PDF (say one's that were created by a certain application).

             

            PjonesCET wrote:

             


             

            To properly set  for all files you select 5 or more PDF's  make suere some of them are PDF created by Preview

             


            And if they were all created by the same application (say Apple Quartz for instance) you're back in the same boat.

             

            The trick is to select a few PDF's (Absolutely no reason that it has to be 5, that's Phillips thing) created by different applications or at least be sure it's one from the application you use.

            • 3. Re: Can't change filetype association back to Acrobat 9
              Phillip Jones Community Member

              ~graffiti wrote:

               

              PjonesCET wrote:

               

               

               

              if you just select one file it sets asssocation for that one file.


              Not neccesarily true. It WILL however only set the association for that particular type of PDF (say one's that were created by a certain application).

               

              PjonesCET wrote:

               


               

              To properly set  for all files you select 5 or more PDF's  make suere some of them are PDF created by Preview

               


              And if they were all created by the same application (say Apple Quartz for instance) you're back in the same boat.

               

              The trick is to select a few PDF's (Absolutely no reason that it has to be 5, that's Phillips thing) created by different applications or at least be sure it's one from the application you use.

               

              I've found less than five don't give an accurate sampling. That's the reason for 5 or more created by different  Applications.