getting primoPDF to work

[riegal]

Can not get this software to act like a reader.

Open an existing PDF file, get the usual option of Print, Screen, Custom (don't really understand why the options, but they are there), choose Screen, and the file gets printed to my desktop with .PDF added to the filename. But can not view the file.

Print file using primoPDF as the printer. Same result as the above.

Nothing on the website or manual about how to get this software to actually act like a reader so that the PDF file can be viewed.

Any ideas as to what is going on? Thanks.

[dderolph]

dude, primoPDF is not a PDF reader. It's a converter; it converts Word documents, Excel files, etc. to PDF. You need to use a PDF reader such as Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader to view the PDF document.

[mikekloc]

I'm having exactly the same problem. On a previous earlier version installed on a 2nd laptop it works perfectly as a reader as well as a pdf maker. So when I downloaded a newer version for another laptop and installed it last night it only seems to work as a pdf maker, not a viewer. When I try to setup filetypes in explorer and set primopdf as the viewer it makes another pdf with a double .pdf at the end of the extension. I even tried to uninstall the new version, copy the older version from my 2nd laptop to my other laptop and it does the same thing. I do not want to use adobe as my pdf viewer, I much prefer the speed of primo over adobe. I am at a loss as to why it comes up fine as a view on my 1st laptop and as a maker on my other laptop. Has anyone figured out how to set filetype extensions to allow primo as a viewer? Obviously it does work cause I have proof on my 1st laptop.

Thanks, Mike

[dderolph]

Can you post the exact, step-by-step, procedure you use with that laptop to make PrimoPDF function as a reader?

If you go to the home page, http://www.primopdf.com/, and read the description, it says nothing about PrimoPDF being a reader.

[mikekloc]

Sorry guys, it was late last night and I apparently had a brain fart. I took another look at my 1st laptop filetypes and I am using FoxIt reader, not primo. Don't know what made me think it was primo other than I use it so much that I had it stamped in my brain. Now I have to go on my other laptop and install FoxIt as the reader cause I'm spoiled by the speed. I think PrimoPDF should make a reader like FoxIt. It just makes good business sense to have both to corner the market.