[plug] Adobe acroreader

Gavin Chester sales at ecosolutions.com.au
Wed Oct 18 13:52:57 WST 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:46 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 12:25 +0800, Dion wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > Google isn't helping me much, so does anyone have any party tricks for 
> > getting Adobe Acroreader to open a new instance of itself when I try to 
> > open a second or more pdfs??
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > D.
> 
> Then, you don't just want each new pdf in a separate window within the
> one instance of acroread, i.e., have several files open at once?
> 
> I guess that behaviour would be handled by your window manager of choice
> if you are wanting to double-click and have each file start a new
> instance of acroread.  Otherwise, start several instances manually and
> then load chosen file into each different instance from its menu :-/
> 
> Gavin.
> 

Doh! shooting my mouth off without checking first :-O  I thought with
memories of earlier versions of acroread that you _could_ open separate
instances, but when I checked _after_ posting I see that you _can't_.
Sorry - ignore my previous answer :-(

Gavin




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