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stesch79
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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...
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    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:

     

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vygadeka
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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. 

 

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tylderlurden
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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.

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