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Open pdf in Browser not SharePoint pdf Viewer
Yes I have also found this very annoying...we have a system which is fronted by a Visio diagram on the home page...the links from the visio shapes open the pdf documents in full web browser mode.
Where as the quick links web part underneath only open the pdfs in the sharepoint web viewer and we don't want our users to see version history for a start (thats for the Quality control team only) but actually more importantly the sharepoint pdf viewer displays the full A4 page in the window, and its difficult to read whereas Id prefer the full browser view as it fits the page by width and you can actually read the content.
You would that that there being a different URL for standard open and the web browser open the link should work for each type of experience. It's baffling.
Darren Graham This also has user experience implications: consider a Sharepoint communications site with links to various PDF documents. When you link to those documents using the Quick Links webpart and the site opens them using the SharePoint pdf viewer, the viewer puts its own toolbar up. One of the options on that toolbar is a "close" cross. Hitting that cross does not back you out to the page, rather it just closes the document and dumps you into the directory the PDF sits in, which the user may never even have seen before and certainly might not be familiar with.
This is very bad from a UX standpoint, and even just a URL modifier that I could manually append to each Quick Link to use the browser's own PDF viewer would be helpful.
Has this been resolved? I have a link to a PDF for students. When they close the documents, it opens up the document library. I need the window close instead. The way it works now is illogical.
No, the behaviour is still active for me.
- I am also having an issue with the SharePoint PDF viewer. It does not print a PDF. Instead, clicking Print just opens the PDF again in the SharePoint PDF viewer on a new browser tab and does not bring up the print dialog. As a workaround the user has to click "Version History" from the SharePoint PDF viewer and then select the latest version. This opens it in a new browser window in Adobe Reader, from where the user can print.
This is not the behaviour at my other customers. Their SP sites open PDF files in Adobe Reader and can print without an issue. This leads me then to think that there must be a setting somewhere that controls this behaviour.
@MicrosoftSupport, can you please look into this and provide a response? the response provided by Alireza is not sufficient.
- Still active also for me, and very frustrating.
Any solution? Openng a pdf from a SP site is such a basic navigation scenario!
