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Modern Experience feedback - PDF viewer
We recently had to turn off the Modern Experience setting on our libraries due to overwhelming bad feedback from our users. There were very consistent issues and I would like to know whether these w...
How PDFs are handled is unlikely to change. Adobe's recommendation is to use the 'Add Account' function within Adobe Reader/Standard/Pro instead of accessing the PDF from within the browser.
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/access-sharepoint-files.html
I just spoke to their support this week. Here is the exact wording of their response with regards to PDFs and SharePoint:
One can open SharePoint hosted PDF directly in standalone Acrobat application from IE. However this integration works only for SharePoint On-Premise servers and not for SharePoint online (Office 365).