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Iron Contributor

Jul 23, 2019

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Adobe Reader integration

Hi team How can we enable the Adobe Reader as the default PDF handler in Edge or disable the internal PDF viewer? We appreciate your efforts regards PDF handling, but Adobe Reader is still requir...

stesch79
May 04, 2020
smokie128 It works with Adobe Reader, you don't need Adobe Acrobat. The cool thing is, that you the extension menu automatically pops-up and users can click to "Open in Acrobat" and it will download and open the PDF:

vygadeka

Microsoft

Jul 25, 2019

stesch79 yes we would be updating the policy behavior to auto-download files. Additionally, in the downloads menu at the bottom, you can select the option to always open files in system viewer by default. With that, the files will start opening in the systems viewer.

tylderlurden

Brass Contributor

Feb 26, 2020

vygadeka

Same question. Update?

The extra download step is confusing users and unnecessary taking up space on our storage and cloud.

Auto downloading files gets us closer. What we really want is a way to click on an online PDF link

For example https://www.irs.gov/forms-instructions

Click on form 1040 and have it open in Adobe reader, acrobat, etc. Anything but Edge.

Why do we have to download the PDF first and then change the default in teh download toolbar to automatically open it in System viewer or Adobe? Why not just open the link from the website in our choice that is not Edge.

If you have to download it then like the others said auto download it to a temp folder and then we can use the always open pic you posted.

smokie128
Copper Contributor
Apr 09, 2020
vygadeka

Is this issue still being worked on? This is the last big roadblock to my org deploying new Edge to all users.
- vygadeka
  Microsoft
  May 10, 2020
  smokie128 the ability to automatically download the files (instead of getting the popup message) has been added to Edge version 083. You can also give it a try in latest Canary version. Please let us know if that works for you.
  
  Vyankatesh
  Program/Product Manager - Microsoft Edge
  - lasureal
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 27, 2020
    vygadeka dear, we have the same problem.
    How exactly do we enable opening pdf's at once in acrobat?
    Is this a server setting?
    tnx
- Terabyte
  Brass Contributor
  May 01, 2020
  Clearly someone at MS has dropped the ball here. After deploying Edge Chromium to a test set of users every single one of them is screaming for real Chrome back. They work with PDF files all day long and Edge Chromium's PDF functionality is just unacceptable. Why can't you get this working like real Chrome? For now Edge Chromium has been removed and users are back and happy with real Chrome. Slick move Microsoft. Tick users off over something that should just be logical.