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derekw78588613
derekw78588613
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March 18, 2018
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pdf viewer reader/viewer

  • March 18, 2018
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so I installed the updated pdf reader as suggested and it completely screwed up my photos. Now it is a major pita to try to open and view pdf files. All i want is a viewer, i don't need the reader or any other crap like that.  When I use this stupid reader it won't let me exit out of it - also it screws up the images. How do I get back to using pdf viewer and only for my pdf files?  If you are so inclined to repond with a solution - please don't be vague and send me to some other place where i have to wade through piles of information to get my answer. I just want my system to be the way it was. I have uninstalled this 'reader' crap because it screwed up all my photos and they wouldn't open.

so please if you are going to respond pls give step by step detailed instructions on how to get it back so all i have to open pdf files is the VIEWER not the READER.

i hope that I have made myself clear and thanks to adobe they have wasted hours of my life trying to fix my system that it has now taken over.

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    Legend
    March 18, 2018

    We don’t know either.

    Test Screen Name
    Legend
    March 18, 2018

    What is this “viewer” app you want so much? Adobe only has Reader. If you don’t know, did it come with your computer? What system is it? If you uninstalled Reader, how did you do that? If you didn’t want Reader why did you install it? What file format are your photos? Please carefully answer all questions.

    derekw78588613
    derekw78588613Author
    Participant
    March 18, 2018

    what happened was i got a prompt to update my adobe ( i assumed it was called 'viewer' for some reason). So I updated as per instructions.( o/s win 8.1) . Then when I finished updating I went to work on some photos and none of them would open as they were not compatible with adobe. ( these were jpegs). So i uninstalled Reader by going through the control panel uninstall programs. Now I can access my photos but all my other pdf's I know have to open with firefox as the associated viewer. Even though adobe is now uninstalled - I now have the firefox icon instead of the adobe icon. What I would like is to be able to go back to my previous version of adobe without adversely affecting any other file extensions other than pdf. Unfortunately I don't recall what the previous version was.

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Legend
    March 19, 2018

    You seem to have a file extensions problem. Select a specific pdf file, right click to go to file properties, choose open with or similar and then check the viewer you prefer. Make sure that apply to all or similar is checked.

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