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jamesarm97

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I was on my new iPad Pro and went to my iCloud drive then to the Preview folder to open some PDF files. When I tap the PDF to view the document it always wants to open in Pixelmatr and only converts the first page to an image to view. I cannot get it to open in Preview like it use to. I checked all the settings I can think of but don't see any "open with Preview" option, just "Open with Pixelmatr" and then the other choices are stuff like Copy in ... it seems like I lost the built in Preview functionality.

Anyone seen this or know where I can change the default opening of PDF files back to Preview?
 

jamesarm97

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Sep 29, 2006
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Removing Pixelmatr allowed the built in Preview on PDFs (from the iCloud drive) to start working again. Odd how it took it over even though it just handles images. I could not find a setting to re-assign the opening / viewing of PDF files to Preview with Pixelmatr installed.
 

Peepo

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Jun 18, 2009
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Removing Pixelmatr allowed the built in Preview on PDFs (from the iCloud drive) to start working again. Odd how it took it over even though it just handles images. I could not find a setting to re-assign the opening / viewing of PDF files to Preview with Pixelmatr installed.
This is an old problem which pixelmator or Apple are not interested in fixing it seems.
 
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