Adobe Reader Opens Automatically

[2ffat]

I have a new laptop and installed Adobe Reader 8.1. Now I notice that whenever I create or download a PDF, Reader immediately opens it.

While this is not a major problem, it is annoying. It didn't do this on my other PCs. It has to be a setting somewhere but I can't find it. I've looked in Reader's settings and file options but nothing looks like that would be it. I also looked on the internet via a variety of search engines but no luck.

Anybody run into this and got an answer?


James P. Cottingham
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[linney]

Is there any plugin or add-on in the browser that is performing this task? What is the "Adobe PDF Reader link helper" that I see in Add-ons?

 

[2ffat]

I thought about an add-on but I don't use the web browser to create PDF and there isn't a setting on the PDF creator either. Very odd!!!!

The link helper, I assume, is to allow the browser to open PDFs in a browser window. I may have to investigate it further though.


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[linney]

Have you tried disabling the Reader_SL.exe from Adobe in MsConfig Startup?

Links on Google talk about an edit of file type parameters.

Open *.pdf file automatically after compilation

http://forum.latexeditor.org/viewtopic.php?t=895

http://www.google.com/search?q=.pdf+files+open+automatically&rls=com.microsoft:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=.pdf files open automatically&rls=com.microsoft:

Try your luck in the Adobe Acrobat Forum.

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=223

 

[2ffat]

Thanks, Linney. Yes, I did turn the startup off via CCleaner. Most of the google searches I ran across earlier. I'll give the few I didn't see a try.



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[guitarzan]

What program are you using to create PDF's? In my limited experience, there is usually a setting that allows/disallows the PDF to open automatically after creation. May it's just buried in the user interface?

 

[BionicJohn]

Here's where to enable/disable the displaying of newly created - it's in the Distiller/AdobePDF printer properties.

You can choose between a downloaded PDF opening in within your browser or in Adobe Reader in AR's Preferences.

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[2ffat]

I've been using PDFCreator for creating the PDFs. I looked and looked and can't find a unusual settings for it. It is a very basic creator (re: freebie).

I do want to open my PDFs in the web browser. The problem is if I download one, I usually don't want it to open again in Reader afterwards.

What irks me, is this has never happened on my other PCs I've set up and used. I must have done something different on this one.


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[pcretail]

A workaround could be to use Foxit iso Adobe Reader = smaller, faster and as good

 

[2ffat]

I tried Foxit. I got frustrated with some of the options that only work with the paid version. Also, Reader 8 installs an hook into Windows search that allows me to look up words in PDF documents. That way I can search for "April 2007" in "*.pdf" in a directory using Windows.



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