shipen, pity you did, ask first the next time.
Right-click on the PDF, pick Open With.
If your required XDA (e.g., v18) is not listed, click Choose another app > More apps > Look for another App on this PC. In Program Files > Xara > Xara Designer Pro X > 18: Pick DesignerPro.exe.
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Yup, that's exactly what I tried. It caused Windows to pause for thought for several seconds, but then it went ahead and opened version 10. TBH, I simply couldn't believe it had done that, so I tried about 3 times to make sure I was definitely selecting the vesrion 18... but nope, it simply opened with version 10.
J
You may want to try the following:
Change default programs in Windows 10
- On the Start menu, select Settings > Apps > Default apps.
- Select which default extension (.pdf) you want to set, and then choose the app.
No, I don't want Xara to be my .PDF viewer, because it it too slow to open. For now I am using SumatraPDF for that - but fwiw, I'm pretty unhappy with ALL of the PDF editors that I've tried.
Ironically it may well be that despite it's long-awaited many and various powers, that I wind up using Xara more often merely to edit PDFs than to do anything else!
But I have had a lot of trouble with getting Windows Explorer to view PDFs when they are selected, but without opening them.
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