I have been digging around but have yet to find a solution to a irritating issue we have at our company.
On some windows XP systems user have both Acrobat 6. They need this to work with a few specific documents.
They also have Adobe Reader 8/9 installed to read, well everything else.
The issue: Acrobat is really greedy
Whenever the users try to access a PDF file via the browser acrobat tries to take over. A lot of the files won't open in browser with acrobat, though they work fine with reader.
Short of removing acrobat altogether there dose not seem to be a way to let reader own the browser bases relationship or even the file relationship.
I have tried disabling anything and everything to do with Acrobat in the browsers (IE and FF). I have tried expressly setting the PDF file association to reader only.
Acrobat allays still grabs the transaction until it's uninstalled completely.
Can anyone confirm a working way to disable acrobat unless it's explicitly user sot open a file from within the application, or at least break it's constant attempt to cease the browser file association away from reader?
Thanks!
The reason for these restrictions are based on the shared libraries used by Acrobat and Reader, they have the same name but different contents. There is the issue of properly setting up the file associations. There is the issue of TSR portions of Reader and Acrobat staying active after one closes the visible application window. And experience tends to prove this sage advice.
George Kaiser