PDF has greatly expanded the boundaries of digital documents that swell today, it brings us a much more innovative way to present our ideas. Therefore, people, especially office people use PDF very often. It is a commonsense understanding that we all need a PDF viewer to open and view a PDF file. There are so many options on a PDF reader, then how to change the default PDF viewer to our preferred one on mac?
In effect, it is quite easy to change the default PDF viewer on mac, here we list 3 methods to make this, no matter you want to change default PDF viewer to Preview, Adobe or other PDF readers for Mac.
Method 1. Change Default PDF Viewer when Installing a New PDF Viewer
Select Get Info and then from the box that appears you'll find, about halfway down, the heading Open with: Click this and you'll see the default app associated with this file type. Now click on the. Slack does not offer a way to run a 'test meeting' or make a 'test call'. Instead, they offer a test page that will check the underlying technologies for you, and let you know if anything is wrong. Open your preferred browser on the device you want to test, and go to the Slack.
Select a browser. In the drop-down menu, click a browser that you want to use. As long as the browser is installed on your computer and is up to date, it should show up as an option here. If you don't see the browser that you want to use, restart your Mac and then re-open the System Preferences window to try again. If you are a new Mac user and not sure how to make it happen, here’s how to change a file type’s default app when you open it. Change the default app when opening. When you want to change the default app for a file you’re opening, you can do this in a couple of clicks. 1) Right-click or hold Control and click the file.
The reason why you want to change the default PDF viewer on mac is mainly for that you have other PDF viewers installed or will be installed on your mac. You can easily do this when installing a new PDF reader, since a newly installed PDF viewer will allow you to change the default viewer.
Here we take Movavi PDF Editor as the example, since it is the most popular Mac PDF reader and editor to work on your PDF files, it is much likely that you will install a PDF tools as powerful as Movavi PDF Editor. It can:
- Edit PDF texts: add, delete, replace
- Edit image: add, delete, rotate, resize
- Add signature to PDFs
- Add, delete or combine PDF pages
- Convert blank page, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ePub, HTML, TXT, DJVU, JPG, PNG and BMP to PDF
- Convert PDF to Word, ePub, HTML, TXT, JPG, PNG and BMP
Check out the steps to change default PDF viewer on Mac easily
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- Grab a free copy of Movavi Video Editor, download the installer.
- Run the installer and go to the Installation Wizard as following to finish the installation.
- Choose Yes in the following box.
- Then your Movavi PDF Editor will be the defaulted PDF viewer and editor on your Mac.
Method 2. Change Default PDF Viewer via Get Info Menu
To change default PDF viewer on mac with Get Info menu is the most universal way that Apple macOS support itself and other authorities are recommending. So, we will begin with this method to change your default PDF viewer to Preview, Adobe Acrobat or other PDF readers.
- Right click on a PDF file, then choose Get Info.
- Then go to Open with. Now, the defaulted PDF viewer on my mac is Preview, you can click the drop-down menu to shift to another installed PDF viewer on your mac, like Adobe Acrobat Reader or others.
- Then click on the Change All>Continue to change the default viewer to your selected one. Open a PDF, you will find the default PDF viewer for your mac has been changed.
Method 3. Change Default PDF Viewer on Mac via “Always Open With”
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Another method to change default PDF viewer on mac is enabling the “Always Open With” menu and choose your preferred viewer on mac.
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- Right click on a PDF file, choose Open With>Other…
- Then go to Enable, choose Recommended Applications and select the PDF viewer you want to set as default from the app list. After that, check the box before Always Open With. If you cannot find the PDF viewer your want to change as the defaulted one from the Recommended app list, go to Enable>All Applications, then choose your wanted PDF viewer, and check the box before Always Open With.
- Last, click on Open to change your default PDF viewer on mac.