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Open PDFs in QuickTime Player for faster viewing
Authored by: paulehoffman on Mar 25, '03 01:16:59PM

You can also cause Adobe's Acrobat reader to be the default PDF viewer. Like QuickTime Player, Acrobat Reader is much faster than Preview (after it is launched). Unlike QuickTime Player, Acrobat Reader renders almost every PDF flawlessy. The only disadvantage is that Acrobat Reader doesn't let you use the scroll wheel.



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Open PDFs in QuickTime Player for faster viewing
Authored by: readparse on Mar 28, '03 10:55:18PM

I was also going to post the "Uh, how about Acrobat?" comment because I noticed that it's tons faster than Preview.app with PDFs (as you said, once it launches). But I've kept Preview as the default app for PDFs, because it's definitely a quicker launcher than Acrobat, and many PDFs are simple enough that they come right up. Whenever I run across one that's being a dog, I just drag the icon from the title bar of the window into Acrobat, which I keep in my dock all the time.

Different strokes for different folks.



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