Opening pdf files on 9.04

Patrick Heffernan tesla4370 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 10:15:23 UTC 2009


Graham Watkins typed the following on 15/09/09 20:03:

> Whenever I double click on a pdf file it is opened with Gimp rather than 
> the Document Viewer or XPDF.  A small thing perhaps but mighty 
> irritating.  I can open them if I remember to right click then select 
> one of the latter.  But what I really want is a way of altering the 
> association with PDFs so that they are opened by a pdf viewer by default.
> 
> Is there an easy way of implementing this?

Right click on the file and select properties. Select the Open With tab,
and choose your program from there. They'll always open with the
application you select after that.

Cheers
Patrick

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Patrick Heffernan

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