[OS X TeX] Prevent Acrobat Reader From Opening Files?

[Colin West]

When it happened to me I closed Adobe and dragged the file name onto  
the Preview icon. It hasn't happened since.

Colin

On Oct 28, 2005, at 2:07 PM, Jung-Tsung Shen wrote:

> On 10/28/05, Adam Maxwell <amaxwell at mac.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Friday, October 28, 2005, at 10:16AM, Jung-Tsung Shen  
>> <jushen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am annoyed by the fact that Acrobat Reader(AR) tries to open some
>>> PDFs. I already UNchecked the option "Display the PDF in browser  
>>> using
>>> Acrobat Reader" in the Preferences of Acrobat Reader's. But  
>>> apparently
>>> AR has a its own mind and RE-check that option itself. This has
>>> happens several times.
>>>
>>> A while ago, BibDesk got crashed exactly due to AR ...
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I had to disable plugin loading in BibDesk and TCOBrowser  
>> because of Adobe Reader. <remainder of rant deleted>
>>
>>
>>> Does anyone know a way to prevent AR from opening PDFs? I still want
>>> to keep the program in my laptop. However, if it's impossible to  
>>> make
>>> it behave, maybe to delete completely is the only way to go -- in  
>>> this
>>> case, how do I remove AR completely?
>>>
>>
>> Since I need AR occasionally for filling out forms, after  
>> installing it I went into Safari's bundle and removed its plugin  
>> stuff (the Frameworks directory).  I then opened up AR's bundle  
>> and removed the plugin stuff from there so it could no longer  
>> "heal" itself, otherwise it keeps reinstalling this crap.  I think  
>> there's also a plugin in /Library somewhere that you have to delete.
>>
>> YMMV; this is all unsupported, unrecommended, and may render  
>> things unusable.
>>
>> I continue to find it unbelievable that a commercial software  
>> company uses such dirty hacks as modifying Safari's bundle.  I use  
>> input managers to do similar things (I wrote one), but at least  
>> you have to choose to install those, and you can easily remove  
>> them.  I'm surprised MacInTouch hasn't written this up as a virus.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
> Herb, Justin, Stefano, and Adam,
>
> Thanks for all the very helpful reply. I have managed to delete the
> plug-in. Hope this prevents it from acting up again. :-)
>
> Hasn't Adobe realized this trick only causes troubles but nothing  
> else? Geez.
>
> Also, I posted at BibDesk as well cause I thought BibDesk users would
> be interested as well, and they might have run into the more serious
> problem as I did ... but I will refrain from cross-posting then.
>
> JT
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