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Subject:.pdf files associated with Notepad From:"Kaplan, Elise" <ekaplan -at- ASAINT -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:19:42 -0500
We deliver our documentation in Adobe Acrobat, and periodically folks
report that they "tried to open a document and it looked like garbage."
When I investigate, it always turns out that files with the .pdf
extension have somehow become associated with Notepad rather than the
Acrobat Reader. I know how to fix the file association problem--in
fact, I've become an expert--but I don't know what is causing the
problem to occur so frequently, or how to prevent it. Any ideas?
