[OS X TeX] LaTeX presentations in full screen - avoiding Adobe Reader

[Alain Schremmer]

On Nov 19, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:

> On Nov 19, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
>
>> On Nov 19, 2007, at 6:05 AM, Luis Sequeira wrote:
>>
>>> Being bloated is one of the reasons why I'd like to avoid it.
>>> The fact that it does not behave as a good citizen is the biggest  
>>> one... always popping up windows telling me to update (often as I  
>>> am in front of an audience...); and stealthily installing its  
>>> stuff in my login items is yet another example of bad behavior.
>>
>> Talking of bad citizenship, how do you remove acrobat from being  
>> the default web browser? On my Acrobat 7.0 Pro, under preferences/ 
>> internet, the tab "Display PDF using Acrobat"  and "check browser  
>> settings when starting Acrobat" are both grayed out. According to  
>> the online help, I should be able to change these settings.
>
> Answering my own question: it seems that manually removing the  
> Acrobat plugin from Library/internet does the trick.

I seem to remember that this is not enough because it keeps being  
reinstalled behind your back. But I can't remember what I did to get  
rid of it for good. Something drastic I suppose.

Regards
--schremmer