Strange file opening behavior by PDF-XChange products

Tracker Software is replacing PDF-XChange Viewer with PDF-XChange Editor, so I installed Editor to take a look. After installing it, opening PDF files in Explorer causes them to be opened in Editor as expected. Doing the same in Opus causes the file to be opened in Viewer. Not only that, but Viewer asks if it should become the default PDF viewer? I guess the last point is understandable behavior by the Viewer since, based on the behavior in Explorer, Editor is apparently the default PDF viewer, but if that's the case, why is the Viewer being invoked at all?

A quick way to fix it is to edit the PDF filetype in Opus and assign the program you want to the Left Double-Click event. Then the registry settings etc. don't matter.

(Using Open With > Set Default Program may also work, and might be a bit quicker.)

[quote="leo"]A quick way to fix it is to edit the PDF filetype in Opus and assign the program you want to the Left Double-Click event. Then the registry settings etc. don't matter.

(Using Open With > Set Default Program may also work, and might be a bit quicker.)[/quote]

I haven't tried any of these suggestions yet because I'm not at all sure that I will actually convert to using the new application as a default viewer any time soon.

For whatever it's worth and for possible future reference, from Tracker Software support at tracker-software.com/forum3/ ... 643#p75643 .

[quote]Hi Bob,

Thanks for the post - from the link that you sent, this seems to be an issue with the file manager, as this isn't something that we handle, but is handled by the Windows API. The most that we do, when setting our application as default, is to set the associations within Windows - it's up to the application whether or not they honour these associations, so I'm afraid that you'll have to contact them on this.

Hope that helps![/quote]

I'm guessing they are not setting the associations correctly, but it's not clear that they have any interest in pursuing the matter.

I just upgraded to the latest version of PDF-XChange Pro and all pdf's open in the Editor when opened from DOpus.

Strange! I just took a mostly clean copy of Win7 (MSE installed) and installed in sequence Opus, PDF-XChange Viewer, and PDF-XChange Editor. Resulting behavior was as described in my original post.

Hello,

I have had the same problem, long term PDF-XChange Viewer user, just installed PDF-XChange Editor additionally.
Solved it as Leo suggested:[quote](Using Open With > Set Default Program may also work, and might be a bit quicker.)[/quote]
Greetings
opusfreak

I am also a longtime and satisfied used of the free PDF-XChange Viewer. I installed the free PDF-XChange Editor, and its recent update, but I'm not impressed. Their Editor seems still to be in a beta state, because various functions in their Viewer have not yet been implemented in their Editor (customisable toolbars, for example, but see their forum). There seems to be no gain at the moment to using their Editor rather than their Viewer as far as the free versions are concerned, so I'm not using their Editor until it's all sorted out.

Agreed. Looks like the curiosity now is as much why Phonemes doesn't see the strange behavior as why the rest of us do. At least I now know I'm not alone.

I'm not yet ready to comment on the merits or lack thereof of the editor vs. the viewer and this wouldn't be the place if I were, but I do note that the previous craziness regarding default programs and file associations seems to have been resolved in the currently available editor Version 3.0 (Build 307.0).

My main interest in the Editor is that Tracker have announced that it will replace the Viewer. I use the free versions of both.

I can confirm Bob's experience with Version 3.0 (Build 307.0) of the Editor. It is behaving properly within Opus for me. I typically double-click my PDF files in an Opus file list window, and they correctly open in PDF XChange Editor. Further, as the Editor uses a tabbed window, double-clicking a second PDF file in Opus resuls in its opening a second tab in the Editor window, and so on.