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I just popped into this ng and saw this question, so please don't reply to 
my comments -- I won't be staying.  Stupidly, Adobe creates a subfolder 
chain a mile long, causing a pathname that is too long for Windows Mobile to 
process.  It would be nice if the software engineers at Adobe put down the 
doughnuts at their meetings and did something less creative than having 
dozens of subfolders in their PC/Mac and PPC apps.  The easiest solution 
(and it's not really that easy) is to use a full service utility like 
SKTools, though you can do it with any Pocket PC Registry editor (if you 
know how) and File Explorer.  I'm short on time, so ask questions to the 
techs in this forum.

With SKTools:
1) Using the 'File Types' tool, make sure the file is associated.  If it's 
not, add the file type ".pdf" (no quotes), and associate it with Adobe 
Reader.  Very simple and quick for that step.  The rest is not so easy, but 
can be accomplished if you know how to do what I am saying here.
2) You must change the folder where the Adobe Reader files are located 
(\Program Files\Adobe\...) so that the resulting pathname is much shorter --  
I used '\Program Files\Adobe\...', eliminating the 'Acrobat 2.0' subfolder, 
and moved the other subfolders up one level.  As it is now, the pathname is 
too long for Windows Mobile to process.  SKTools has a utility that will 
move an application to a different folder, but you need to check what it 
does after the move to make sure it did everything.
3) After moving the folders (with SKTools), try to start a .pdf file from 
File Explorer.  If it doesn't work:
  a) Check the Adobe folders in File Explorer, writing down all the folder 
names.
  b) Using a Registry Editor (SKTools has it built in), check everything 
"Adobe" and "pdf" in HKCR, HKCU and HKLM, making sure the pathnames are 
correct.  Some may not be, so fix them to what you wrote down.  MAKE SURE 
you use quotes around the pathnames, as any spaces in a pathname will cause 
this not to work.

I know, I know...  You're welcome, but...  It is really easier to just start 
the Reader and open a file!
--    EdNY


<m._warner@adobeforums.com> wrote in message 
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> I've been trying to associate pdf files so that when I click on them, 
> adobe reader will be launched automatically, and then open the pdf file.
>
> There is another thread on here that asks about this too, and the 
> suggestion was to use a utility like Rescoe Explorer or Tilanosoft Pocket 
> Tweak.
>
> Unfortunately, although I've used both apps to associate pdf files with 
> Adobe Reader, all it does is initially open the acrobat document, but then 
> clicking on the first page of the document only causes reader to crash.
>
> So, associating pdf files with reader doesn't work (at least for me). I 
> can associate pdfs with other readers like foxit, and that works fine, but 
> foxit doesn't have quite as nice a reflow capability.
>
> Now, if I launch Adobe Reader first, and then select from the list of pdf 
> files, that works fine.
>
> However, a drawback to that is it doesn't hunt up all of the pdf files 
> that may be buried in subdirectories.
>
> Anyway, I have installed/ininstalled Reader for PPC v2, but I haven't been 
> able to get this to work.
>
> Is this a problem with Acrobat Reader for PPC? Has anyone been able to 
> click on a pdf file, and have Adobe Reader open it up successfully without 
> crashing?
>
> I'd sure appreciate some useful feedback. This is frustrating.