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skyeblaine
skyeblaine
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December 2, 2019
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how to force Adobe Acrobat Pro 10 as default to open PDFs instead of Acrobat Reader DC

  • December 2, 2019
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I own Adobe Acrobat Pro 10. I downloaded Acrobat Reader DC because of it's PDF markup capabilities. I've gone into setting default apps, and PDF is set so Adobe Acrobat Pro will open PDFs. However, Reader DC insists on opening them instead. Early on, Reader DC asked me if I wanted it to be the default. I said NO!

Is there a solution to this?

Thank you,

Skye

 

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try67
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try67Community Expert
Community Expert
December 2, 2019

Reader DC doesn't have any markup capabilities that Acrobat doesn't have.

    skyeblaine
    skyeblaineAuthor
    Participant
    December 3, 2019
    Thanks!

    Sent from my iPad, please excuse autocorrect typos.

    Skye Blaine, MFA
    Teacher, writer, author
    skyeblaine@gmail.com
    Dave__M
    Community Expert
    Dave__MCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 2, 2019

    If your operating system is Windows, you can right-click on a PDF's icon, and choose Open with... and Choose another app.

    From the next dialog box, identify Acrobat Pro as your app, and be sure to check the Always use this app to open .pdf files. 

    This should fix the issue.

     

    My best,

    Dave

      skyeblaine
      skyeblaineAuthor
      Participant
      December 2, 2019

      Hi Dave,
      Yes, I can open it that way, thank you. helpful, but annoying to have to do
      that every time. But your next suggestion--there was no "next dialog
      box"--no way to try and set it permanently.
      Skye

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      Skye Blaine, author and teacher
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      Dave__M
      Community Expert
      Dave__MCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      December 2, 2019

      Hmmm.  What version of Windows (it is Windows, yes?) are you running?  You should still have the "Always use this app..." option there.

       

      Dave

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