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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:

Canarytops

Copper Contributor

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)

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?

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.