Hello,
I just installed Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.0. When prompted after the installI indicated that I wanted Preview to remain my primary pdf viewer; that, however hasn’t happened. That’s mildly irritating, but what’s confounding is that now in DA I can’t open pdf files. All I see is the DA window is a large Adobde icon after the pdf file apparently loads.
I assume that other people might have this problem, but a search through prior posts didn’t come up with anything.
The guilty party is Adobe’s plugin for viewing PDFs. It is installed each time Acrobat or Adobe Reader is installed on a Mac. Find it and throw it away. It’s not necessary for OS X 10.4.x and it causes problems with WebKit.
Look for it in your boot volume’s Library in (as I recall) Internet Plugins.
Thanks, but I think I’ll need some more help. I’ve searched for “Plugins” in the root library and only found a folder with the file “VCAdapterLib.bundle” Could this be it? I’m wary about renaming this file since it’s name fails to include pdf or adobe. I guess Adobe doesn’t want you to use Preview. Can anyone ‘divulge’ the file name of the adobe pdf reader plugin?
I renamed the AdobePDFViewer plug-in. DA still only shows the Adobe icon when I try to open a pdf. In Safari, a pdf file opens with the Adobe plug-in, but I get a warning message that the pdf extensions for Safari need to be reinstalled.
Is there a setting or another plug-in somewhere else possibly?
Don’t rename the plugin, but throw it in the trash or in a subfolder (let’s say “Disabled”) otherwise it may somehow still get loaded. And a logout can’t hurt when you deal with something like these plugins that may have been loaded by other programs.