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Lately when I download a PDF in Chrome and click the downloaded file in the bar at the bottom, it opens in chrome. I would like it to open in adobe as default, since I download mostly files with comments or stuff Chrome doesn't support anyway. I have seen this, but it makes chrome download all files and open them in Adobe.
So what I want is: if I click a random PDF, it should open in the chrome browser, if I click a downloaded file from the bar at the bottom or from chrome://downloads it should open the file in Adobe. (Just as it used to be two weeks ago). Is that still possible?
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FYI for others: if you're okay with the Chrome PDF viewer, but want only downloaded PDFs to open in your external PDF viewer (Adobe Acrobat, Foxit Reader, etc.), you don't need to disable the Chrome PDF Viewer.
Always open PDFs using your system's viewer
Simply click the arrow next to a PDF download and select the option to use the system viewer.
Turn off auto-open of PDFs in the system viewer
UPDATE 6/7/2017
As of Chrome version 59, the option below doesn't exist in Settings. I'll leave these instructions, because if they ever add it back it'll probably be in the same place.
- Click on the
Chrome Menuicon - Click on
- Scroll down and click
- Scroll down to Downloads. If you have enabled any file types to open using the system viewer, you'll see a button to Clear auto-opening settings. Clicking this will reset the settings for all file types.
More info
Relevant SuperUser discussion here: How to automatically open 'saved' pdfs in system viewer on chrome?
You should try this:
- Open Chrome.
- Type
chrome://plugins/in the address bar, hit enter. - Browse the list for Adobe PDF viewer or Adobe reader (and chrome pdf viewer)
- Disable both (although disabling adobe reader would work alone.)
Hope this helps.
In Chrome, type chrome://plugins/
Find the Chrome PDF Viewer and click Disable
From your browser, click a PDF file; it should show at the bottom as a downloaded file.
Click the arrow next to the downloaded file, and choose Always open files of this type(You may need to manually click Open on any recent files you want to view, otherwise..)
The next time you click a PDF file, it should open however your computer is configured to open PDF files. If that method is via Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat (standard, pro), then that should meet the need you expressed in your question.
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Cristian Ciupitu
This should solve the problem!
PS:
1- Instead of 1 & 2, you can navigate to: chrome://settings/content
2- You can click on the file name's small (upside) arrow in the 'Downloads bar' at the bottom, and, click on 'Always open with system viewer'. However, this works only for this downloaded file, not other downloads (it should be a bug though)!
3- After doing the above three steps, when you click on a file in the download bar, it first opens another tab and closes it quickly (another bug, which is a little annoying)! But then opens the file in your PDF viewer anyway.
4- Previously you could control this from chrome://plugins which is now removed from Chrome (57 and later versions). So you just ignore what you found on the web about chrome://plugins.
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When you install the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Adobe's free PDF reader, you may notice that it installs a Chrome extension along with the update.
Typing software ratings. Tip: Make sure you disable the offers on the download page to install True Key by Intel Security, and McAfee Security Scan Plus, as they will be installed alongside Adobe Acrobat Reader DC otherwise as well.
The Chrome extension gets installed automatically, but Chrome's security mechanism kicks in preventing it from being enabled by default.
The browser displays a prompt that informs you about the permissions that the Adobe Acrobat extension requests.
What those are? Glad you asked:
- Read and change all your data on the websites you visit.
- Manage your downloads.
- Communicate with cooperating native applications.
When you open the extensions listing on chrome://extensions/, you are informed that the extension is used to convert web pages to an Adobe PDF file, and that it is available for Windows only.
A page on the Adobe website is opened if you enable the extension that informs you about its capabilities.
It informs you that you can use the extension to turn web pages into PDF files, that you can use it to switch to viewing PDF files in Acrobat on the desktop instead of Chrome's native PDF reader, and 'explore Adobe Document Services to convert and combine files in your browser'.
You can right-click any page in Chrome and select Adobe Acrobat to save it directly as a PDF document, or to add it to an existing PDF document instead. It appears however that this option is limited to the commercial Acrobat version and not the free version.
If that is indeed the case, it would make the Adobe Acrobat extension a simple default PDF reader switcher for Chrome on systems with Acrobat DC installed.
The introductory page reveals on top of all that, that data collecting is enabled by default. Adobe notes that anonymous information is collected only including the browser type and version, Adobe product information such as version, and Adobe feature usage.
You can disable the collection of telemetry data by Adobe in the following way:
- Load chrome://extensions/ in the Google Chrome address bar.
- Locate the Adobe Acrobat extension on the page, and click on the options link.
- On the page that opens, uncheck 'Allow Adobe Acrobat for Chrome to send anonymous usage information to Adobe for product improvement purposes'.