Opening pdf files on 9.04

Graham Watkins shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com
Tue Sep 15 10:25:50 UTC 2009


Patrick Heffernan wrote:
> 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
>
>   
That did it. Thanks

Graham




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