Then select GET INFO from the menu youve opened. Step 1: Single click a PDF file you wish to open or any PDF file in general while holding the Control key. You can change settings to make Preview your default PDF viewer again. Follow these instructions to set Adobe Acrobat Reader as the default application for opening PDF files. While the Preview application is the default application to open PDF files on a Mac, the default program sometimes is changed when other programs, such as Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat, are installed on the computer. With it,users can annotate their PDF files with highlight,underline, strikethrough,mark up with sticky notes and text comments and also fill out forms in PDF documents. While versatile, Preview will NOT allow you to make changes to PDFs with editable content. Flyingbee Reader is more than a PDF viewer. For each of the file types below, you’ll click View > Show Preview Options from the menu bar to customize.
If you don’t see the Preview Pane on the right side of your Finder window, just open it from the menu.
Now double-click any PDF file,it will be opened automatically by the Flyingbee Reader,which is a powerful program. Here’s how to change the Finder Preview Pane options on Mac to suit your needs. Choose Adobe Acrobat Reader DC or Adobe Acrobat DC in the list of programs, and then do one of the following: (Windows 10) Select Always use this app to open.
Setting Flyingbee Reader as the default PDF Viewer in Mac OS Xġ Go to the Mac OS X desktop or Finder to find any PDF fileĢ Right click on the file and select “Get Info” from the menuģ The current default PDF application is listed under the heading “Open with:”Ĥ Click the triangle to the left of “Open with:”,and then choose Flyingbee Readerĥ Click “Change all” to make ALL PDFs open via Flyingbee Reader (not just the one we are currently viewing)Ħ Click the Continue button to confirm that you'd like to change your settings Right-click the PDF, choose Open With > Choose default program or another app in. Apple’s built-in Preview is the default PDF viewer in OS X,which is annoying because Preview will NOT allow you to make changes to PDF's with editable content.Given that another more powerful application, like Flyingbee Reader,is extremely fast,and quite efficient at not only viewing PDF files but also annotating PDF files,there’s little need to use Preview as a way to view PDF files.Īccordingly,here in this article,we’re to introduce how to change the default application for opening PDF files from Preview to Flyingbee Reader. As far as the check box to make reader the default browser goes, the only one i know of is the i mentioned in my original post located at Adobe reader->Preferences->internet and it is checked.