Adobe took over my Embroidery files

[taptap43]

I'm a machine embroiderer...have tons of embroidery files on my computer.  When I downloaded Adobe Reader on my computer, it took over all my embroidery files and all my files  had the Adobe Reader extension...I couldn't tell which was the embroidery file or which was the tutorial file because everything had the Adobe extension. I had to open each file up individually to see what it was.  So I uninstalled Adobe reader . 

There is another program I have which is Inklingo (a quilting program) that can only be used with Adobe Reader.  

Is there a way I can download Adobe Reader so I can access my Inklingo program and not have Adobe take over my embroidery designs extensions?

[Dov Isaacs]

Having looked at the documentation for Inklingo at the lindafranz.com website, apparently Inklingo is totally based on printing .pdf files via either the free Adobe Acrobat Reader or either Adobe Acrobat Standard or Adobe Acrobat Pro. Obviously, installing any of these three programs with result in those programs “owning” the .pdf file extension. Otherwise, the software would not work if double-clicking on .pdf files didn't result in this software opening those files. Thus, if both the instructions for and the patterns used by Inklingo are both PDF (.pdf) files, there is nothing that can be done by Adobe's software or any other equivalent PDF reader to differentiate between them.

Is there some other file extension that you think Adobe software is taking over beyond .pdf that is interfering with you?