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

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narutards
Iron Contributor
Nov 24, 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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