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1. Re: Opening PDFs in Acrobat XI Outside Chrome Browser
Sabian Zildjian Sep 8, 2014 2:36 PM (in response to Petrula)You would need to disable the Adobe PDF Viewer plug-in in Chrome's plugins preference interface
Then set PDF to Always Open in Adobe Acrobat/Reader in the file open preference at the lower left portion of the Chrome browser window when selecting a PDF. If you do it once then it always opens in Acrobat/Reader. There are probably registry entries for this in the Chrome application hive.
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2. Re: Opening PDFs in Acrobat XI Outside Chrome Browser
Petrula Sep 14, 2014 8:43 AM (in response to Petrula)Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit SP1
Chrome Version 37.0.2062.103 m
Acrobat XI v11.0.08
"To have Chrome download PDFs instead of displaying them in the browser,
shift-click Disable for the currently enabled viewer.
This leaves both viewer plug-ins disabled so the PDFs won't display in the browser."
There are two plugins shown via "chrome://plugins/".
Adobe Reader - Version: 11.0.8.4
Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 11.0.8
Only one plugin can be enabled at a time.
If you disable one, the other automatically becomes enabled.
This behavior is not intuitive.
If either is enabled, the PDF will appear in the Chrome browser.
To open PDFs in Acrobat XI outside the Chrome Browser, you must disable both plugins.
To disable both plugins, Shift-Click Disable the enabled plugin.
This will disable both plugins.
Using Shift-Click Disable is not intuitive behavior.
Now when you click on a PDF on a web page, the Chrome browser will not have a plugin to handle the PDF so it will bring up a Save dialog box.
Go ahead and save the PDF somewhere like Downloads.
The Chrome browser will show at the bottom of the browser window a reference to the downloaded PDF.
In the drop-list, select "Always open this file type".
Now PDFs open in Acrobat XI outside the Chrome browser.

