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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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SilverTiger69
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Nov 24, 2020

narutards this hack works for me.  I still get a little prompt at the bottom to open or save, but open uses Adobe Reader.  Very cool and thank you.

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narutards
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Nov 24, 2020

SilverTiger69 That isn't really a hack. It is the intended way making use of the official policies provided by Microsoft.

 

And if you are still seeing the download bar then you either didn't add the second registry key correctly or are running a version of Edge prior to 86.0.622.63.

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    Canarytops
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 10, 2021

    narutards My default app for PDFs is Adobe Acrobat 2017. I did try amending to Reader DC but that made no difference. As long as I've interpreted the regedit OK I'm reasonably happy with how things are, thanks for your help.

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    narutards
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 10, 2021
    Canarytops at first glance it should be ok .. but, what do you have set as your default PDF application in Windows?
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    SilverTiger69
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 09, 2021

    Canarytops 

    Sorrry, but I became weary of this and went back to Firefox which makes it much easier and more sensible.  No longer using Edge, so I haven't tried anything.  You did what I did.

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    Canarytops
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    Jun 09, 2021

    narutardsI must be doing something wrong as I still get the "Open/Save" prompt, slightly annoying but can definitely used Adobe's browser which is great. I also notice the pdf isn't downloaded to my system downloads folder as you mentioned ? Again not a major problem but I get the feeling I've done something silly !
    Can you see anything wrong with my updated registry details :-
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge]
    "AlwaysOpenPdfExternally"=dword:00000001
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\AutoOpenFileTypes]
    "1"="pdf"

    My version of Edge : 

    Version 91.0.864.41 (Official build) (64-bit)
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    narutards
    Iron Contributor
    Nov 25, 2020

    SilverTiger69 As I suspected, you did it wrong. "AutoOpenFileTypes" needs to be a subfolder. And then you add a new REGSZ entry called "1" with the value "pdf".

     

    Or just save the whole thing I posted earlier as a .reg file and import it that way.

     

    Or maybe don't mess around in your registry if you don't know what you are doing.

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    SilverTiger69
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 24, 2020

    narutards  Very possible.  I've attached how I set it up. I'm on 87.0.664.41.

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