Question

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out where the settings and options of an application(Adobe Acrobt Pro) are saved. This is to modify the settings without opening the application and going through the menu options. I'm trying to change the resolution of TIF settings.

I have looked in the program file acrobat folder and the douments and settings but haven't found it. I also looked through the registry entrees just to make sure but didn't see anything relevant.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Answer 1

Fire up Process Monitor, make the changes via the adobe menu options then stop the capture. If you look through the entries corresponding to the acrobat process name it will tell you what file & registry writes were done.

Answer 2

You do not state the Operating System.

Assuming 7 / Vista,

C:\Users\User_Name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\9.0\Preferences

or

%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\9.0\Preferences

On XP

C:\Users\User_Name\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\9.0\Preferences

or

%userprofile%\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\9.0\Preferences

(First lines is actual, replace User_Name with your username, or second lines will work on any machine)

Answer 3

Adobe Acrobat stores an enormous amount of data in the registry.
(By enormous I mean thousands of entries!!!)

I assume that what you're looking for is included among this oceanic amount of data. Using a utility such as Process Monitor to trace it out would be excruciatingly painful.

You could rather use a product such as InstallRite 2.5 to create a snapshot of the registry before and after making that change, and report only the differences.