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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:

vygadeka

Microsoft

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.

ToMMeR

Brass Contributor

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.

smokie128
Copper Contributor
Feb 17, 2020
vygadeka I'd like to know the status of this as well. I have the same issue as ToMMeR, and this is preventing us from implementing Edge organisation-wide.

Intended behaviour for opening a link to a .pdf file would be: Download to temp & open in Adobe Reader. Preferrably without additional user interaction.
The current nag screen to download (but then open automatically) is confusing to our users.