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Iron Contributor

Jul 23, 2019

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:

Ralphg

Copper Contributor

May 02, 2020

stesch79 try the Adobe Acrobat extension?

SpeedyThesSnail
Copper Contributor
May 03, 2020
RalphgThere is none for Edge.
- stesch79
  Iron Contributor
  May 04, 2020
  SpeedyThesSnail There is one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adobe-acrobat/efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj and it works quite well.
  - smokie128
    Copper Contributor
    May 04, 2020
    stesch79 Nice find! But as I read it, it requires Acrobat installed on the machine, and it won't work with Acrobat Reader.
    
    Also, while this extension may help, users shouldn't be expected to install extensions just to be able to download & open a file with their usual program out of the browser. It works with other files, why not with pdf?

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