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Opening PDF files in multiple windows with Acrobat/Reader
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Opening PDF files in multiple windows with Acrobat/Reader
Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 11:41 am
Posted by Dan
(1 messages posted)
Hi there...
Acrobat has one of the most annoying "features" of any
program that I have ever encountered, that when you
open multiple files they open in multiple windows within
the main acrobat window rather than in a separate top
level window.
A quick search of the web showed that you can start
acrobat with the '/n' switch to open a new top level
window each time that it is started. That works great
and is a life saver for me who has dual monitors and likes
to read things side by side sometimes (gasp!)
Now the tricky part (and the actual question), how can I
set things up so that when I double click on a .pdf file in
the file manager it opens up the pdf file in a new top level
window as well?
I tried changing the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.pdf
Application to "Acrobat.exe /n" but no joy, windows
doesn't recognize that the /n is a command line switch
and just throws up a window asking me to choose what
application to open the file with.
Anyone have any ideas on this? Is is possible in general
to supply command line switches to programs that are
used to open files when they are double-clicked?
thanks-
dan
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re: Opening PDF files in multiple windows with Acrobat/Reader
Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Posted by DEX
(11745 messages posted)
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
-- Chinese proverb --
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On Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 11:41 am, Dan wrote:
>Hi there...
>
>Acrobat has one of the most annoying "features" of any
>program that I have ever encountered, that when you
>open multiple files they open in multiple windows within
>the main acrobat window rather than in a separate top
>level window.
>
>
>A quick search of the web showed that you can start
>acrobat with the '/n' switch to open a new top level
>window each time that it is started. That works great
>and is a life saver for me who has dual monitors and likes
>to read things side by side sometimes (gasp!)
>
>
>Now the tricky part (and the actual question), how can I
>set things up so that when I double click on a .pdf file in
>the file manager it opens up the pdf file in a new top level
>window as well?
>
>
>I tried changing the registry key:
>
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.pdf
>
>Application to "Acrobat.exe /n" but no joy, windows
>doesn't recognize that the /n is a command line switch
>and just throws up a window asking me to choose what
>application to open the file with.
>
>
>Anyone have any ideas on this? Is is possible in general
>to supply command line switches to programs that are
>used to open files when they are double-clicked?
>
>
>thanks-
>dan
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re: Opening PDF files in multiple windows with Acrobat/Reader
Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 9:47 am
Posted by C K
(5974 messages posted)
Windows doesn't control programs in that fashion so changing the registry won't help.
You can add a switch to a shortcut but without trying it myself, don't know if that
will work when auto launching. Adobe will have to tell you if there is a solution.
On Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 11:41 am, Dan wrote:
>Hi there...
>
>Acrobat has one of the most annoying "features" of any
>program that I have ever encountered, that when you
>open multiple files they open in multiple windows within
>the main acrobat window rather than in a separate top
>level window.
>
>
>A quick search of the web showed that you can start
>acrobat with the '/n' switch to open a new top level
>window each time that it is started. That works great
>and is a life saver for me who has dual monitors and likes
>to read things side by side sometimes (gasp!)
>
>
>Now the tricky part (and the actual question), how can I
>set things up so that when I double click on a .pdf file in
>the file manager it opens up the pdf file in a new top level
>window as well?
>
>
>I tried changing the registry key:
>
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.pdf
>
>Application to "Acrobat.exe /n" but no joy, windows
>doesn't recognize that the /n is a command line switch
>and just throws up a window asking me to choose what
>application to open the file with.
>
>
>Anyone have any ideas on this? Is is possible in general
>to supply command line switches to programs that are
>used to open files when they are double-clicked?
>
>
>thanks-
>dan
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