I've tried this process on a few other websites with PDFs and the behavior is the same.PDFs download locally but do not open in Reader DC automatically instead.Īny feedback would be greatly appreciated. In Chrome, I've ensured that under chrome://settings/content/pdfDocuments, that the sole option for 'Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome' is disabled. When I load a webpage that has a PDF, I can click on the extension icon and choose the 'Open in Acrobat' option but instead of opening in Reader DC, it chooses to download the file locally to my Downloads folder and never automatically opens in Reader DC. On my lab systems, I have installed the extension and I can see it in the Chrome UI. Per the following KB article from Adobe, it seems like the Adobe extension for Chrome should be able to help with this ( ) We would like for our users to be able to have the PDFs launch in Acrobat Reader DC and to NOT have the PDFs download locally first. The PDFs open in the Chrome PDF Viewer which has limited functionality (mostly to download or print the PDF). Some of users would prefer to have these PDFs open in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC so they can use some of the additional functionality (such as the ability to stamp digital signatures on these PDFs or use the 'Send to Email' functionality). Chrome is the recommended browser to use with this application. Our organization has an LOB application that displays PDF files within the browser. It is a program for extracting the content of a PDF file. Adobe Acrobat plug-in also known as AutoSplit plug-in enables to split, merge and rename PDF documents. Without the right tool, files can be easily corrupted. PDF documents are commonly and frequently used.

Version of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC: 2019.012.20040Īdobe extension for Chrome (version 15.1.1.3) Note: it seems that the version linked to this page is the latest to exist.

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