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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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stesch79
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Jul 24, 2019

There is an GPO option "Always opened PDF files externally". But in this case, the a dialog appears and the PDf file is only downloading and not downloading and open automatically.

 

Maybe this behaviour can be changed. If a PDF file can really treated as a download without the dialog and with download and open the file, this would be  a good solution!

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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
    Brass Contributor
    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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      smokie128
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 09, 2020

      vygadeka 

       

      Is this issue still being worked on? This is the last big roadblock to my org deploying new Edge to all users.

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        vygadeka
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        May 10, 2020

        smokie128 the ability to automatically download the files (instead of getting the popup message) has been added to Edge version 083. You can also give it a try in latest Canary version. Please let us know if that works for you. 

         

        Vyankatesh 
        Program/Product Manager - Microsoft Edge

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    stesch79
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 15, 2019

    vygadeka Any news about this request?

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      vygadeka
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      Aug 15, 2019

      stesch79 policy update will be available in the build in coming weeks. The team is onto it. Just one clarification is that with this change the files will still get downloaded to disk and opened so you will have the copy in the Downloads folder.  

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        ToMMeR
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        Jan 20, 2020

        vygadeka What's the status of this? Has it been implemented?

        I have been trying in both the Stable and Dev channels today and I still experience a popup saying the PDF reader has been disabled and that i need to click on Download now.

         

        We would like Edge to automatically download the PDF to a temp folder (or Downloads as a start) and then automatically open the PDF with the default PDF viewer specified in Windows.

         

        The reason we cannot use the buildin PDF reader in Edge is that all of our internal PDF documents have java-script in them (which is disabled in the buildin viewer) used by our document handling solution.

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    stesch79
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 25, 2019

    vygadeka  Thanks, great to know! With you suggestion, one step less. But I have still to download to the Downloads folder and, afterwards, to cleanup the Download folder in order to not spam it :-) Looking forward to the policy update!

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