Viewing a PDF and findading Acrobat
 

I'm using Suse 10.2.

I loaded down Adobe Acrobat Read. There weren't any errors.

I added a PDF file in this path:

/home/userxxx/Documents/PDF Documents/1245.pdf

I tried to navigate to the target by opening the My Computer icon and drilling down to the target PDF.

When I double click on the target pdf file instead of being opened by Acrobat it is opened by Konqueror. In order to get around this I had to drop the application icon on the desk top, open Acrobat first and then load the PDF.

Is there anyway around this where I can just drill down to the PDF and Acrobat will open it after clicking on it?

This was a long way of going about this. I'm a newbie at this. Could this be a path issue and if so what with the the code needed to resolve this?

Thanks

Hi swamprat,

Konqueror has other programs called "embedded" that perform a given task
when called by clicking on an icon you've navigated to with Konqueror.
Stuff like Kview for when you click on a *.jpg file. When you click on
that "my_computer" icon you are in fact opening Konquorer then using it
to navigate to the pdf file, so it will use its embedded KPDF to view the
file. Open Acroread instead and use Acroread's file navigation window to
get to the file, and the Acroread will open it.

FYI,if you go to the main KDE menu and travel:
Settings-->KDE Components-->File Associations
you'll open a dialog where the associations of filetype<-->program name
are listed and edited. However in this case, the "embedded" program
Konqueror uses to open PDF must come from a list that does _not_ include
Acroread. Although you could set the general file association to Acroread
by editing the appropiate menu, still Konqueror will use KPDF to view a file
you navigate to with it. In short, to get Acroread to read, use Acroread.

I hope this helps,
--Lawrence

You can setup the proper file association just from Konqueror. Open Konqueror, browse to a pdf file, right click on it and select "Open With" --> "Other...". In the dialog check the "Remember application association for this type of file" box, select Acrobat Reader from "Office" --> "Document Viewers" and the game is done! You will see a little message box saying the system is updating configuration. Cheers!

Opps,

Thanks Colucix, yours is a much better, simpler way.
For some reason on my Slack 11 box, KDE 3.54, Adobe Reader
was not a selection in the dialog box. But after entering
the path /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread
and saving the configuration, now I also have this file association.

Thanks,
--Lawrence

Thanks all,

All you answers really helped me to understand what's going on here and how to handle it. Thanks again.