For the Users who need Acrobat, I install Acrobat first, then Reader & let Reader take the Default position. This way, the Users get to the contents of their PDFs quicker & whenever anyone has to edit a PDF (almost never), it's Right-click-Open With-Adobe Acrobat. How to Make Adobe Acrobat Reader the Default PDF Viewer on PC or Mac. This wikiHow teaches you how to set Adobe Acrobat Reader as your default PDF app in Windows and macOS. Open the Windows File Explorer. An easy way to do this is to press. Instead of deselecting the option to open the Tools Pane by default, the application will now remember whether it was previously shown or hidden. Before you make changes via Preferences, open Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, go to the Menu Bar, and navigate to View.
How Do You Set Adobe Acrobat Dc As Default
Here's how to set a default pdf reader (tested with Win 10) depending on whether acrobat is installed.
8 Steps total
Step 1: Create two xml files
Create two xml files and add them to an accessible network share with read only permissions for the user/computers you wish to apply this for.
For the Users who need Acrobat, I install Acrobat first, then Reader & let Reader take the Default position. This way, the Users get to the contents of their PDFs quicker & whenever anyone has to edit a PDF (almost never), it's Right-click-Open With-Adobe Acrobat. How to Make Adobe Acrobat Reader the Default PDF Viewer on PC or Mac. This wikiHow teaches you how to set Adobe Acrobat Reader as your default PDF app in Windows and macOS. Open the Windows File Explorer. An easy way to do this is to press. Instead of deselecting the option to open the Tools Pane by default, the application will now remember whether it was previously shown or hidden. Before you make changes via Preferences, open Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, go to the Menu Bar, and navigate to View.
How Do You Set Adobe Acrobat Dc As Default
Here's how to set a default pdf reader (tested with Win 10) depending on whether acrobat is installed.
8 Steps total
Step 1: Create two xml files
Create two xml files and add them to an accessible network share with read only permissions for the user/computers you wish to apply this for.
Step 2: XML File to set PDF reader as acrobat and chrome as default browser
Step 3: XML File to set chrome as the default browser and pdf reader
Step 4: Copy Files To Local Computer
Create a GPO and under: 'computer configuration → Preferences → Windows Settings → Files'
Create two files that are set to update. One file will have the source set to the acrobat xml file, and the other will have the source set to the chrome xml file. The XML file has the file to program association information set in it. Both should have the same target file which should be set to a local location on the computer which will be receiving this policy. On the next step, we decide which file actually gets copied.
Step 5: Check item level targeting
Go to the common tab and check the item level targeting checkbox and click the targeting button
Step 6: Set the first item level targeting filter for if acrobat is installed
For the file that has acrobat set as the default, add the condition to check if our program is installed, in this case, we check for the install folder. When you add this, click ok on the prompts and move to the next file.
Default Pdf Handler
Step 7: Set the second item level targeting
For the file that has chrome as the default, add the same condition as you did on the previous step, but invert it . (You can click on the item options button to get not statements) Click ok on this. Adobe lightroom for macbook pro.
Step 8: Tell windows to use our xml file
Paddy power register. Next, edit the preference item at
Computer Configuration → Policies → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → File Explorer → Set a Default Associations Configuration File
Set the default configuration file to the path of the file that you created earlier.
Congratulations, you're done. Be sure to test the GPO to make sure it works well.
References
- Adobe: Setting the Default PDF Viewer
7 Comments
How To Make Adobe Default Pdf
- Pimientospicehead-kvyw0 Sep 30, 2019 at 12:20pm
Hi,
this is very good. One question i still have.
what Purpose is step 8. file and is that the originally file association file? - Pimientobhoffman.stapa Oct 10, 2019 at 02:16pm
Used your method to base associations on whether Foxit Reader or Foxit PhantomPDF were installed and worked great. Thanks!
- Chipotlemberna Oct 17, 2019 at 02:40pm
Sorry for the late reply.
Step 8 tells windows to use the file associations file that we created instead of the default one. So for this, you'll tell it the path of the file that we copied onto our local drive in step 4. - Pimientospicehead-ttxsc Nov 21, 2019 at 10:28pm
I don't see File Explorer in Step 8, please assist!
- Chipotlemberna Nov 21, 2019 at 10:43pm
@spicehead-ttsxc African diamond slot.
The wizard doesn't have a file explorer/browse button at the window shown in step 8. You'll want to copy the path that you used at step 4 and type or paste it into the textbox in step 8.
To make it easy, I set it to store on the local drive, but you could also use a network location as long as it is accessible by the computer the policy is being assigned to.
- PimientoKahi88 Jan 13, 2020 at 10:51pm
Finally I found the proper way to do this.
Great job! - PoblanoSimpuhl May 19, 2020 at 03:56pm
I used this example to set Acrobat/Chrome or Reader/Chrome depending on which PDF Program they had installed.
Thank you
