2 Replies Latest reply: Sep 14, 2014 8:43 AM by Petrula RSS

    Opening PDFs in Acrobat XI Outside Chrome Browser

    Petrula Community Member

      Acrobat XI

       

      From Google Chrome, I would like to open a PDF which automatically opens Acrobat outside Chrome i.e. inside Acrobat itself.

       

      I do not want to first save the PDF and then open it.

      I want Chrome to download and then open the PDF in Acrobat.

       

      Acrobat 9 would do this. How do you do this in Acrobat XI?

       

      Thanks in advance.

        • 1. Re: Opening PDFs in Acrobat XI Outside Chrome Browser
          Sabian Zildjian Community Member

          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.

          • 2. Re: Opening PDFs in Acrobat XI Outside Chrome Browser
            Petrula Community Member

            Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit SP1

            Chrome Version 37.0.2062.103 m

            Acrobat XI v11.0.08

             

            Chrome Browser & Acrobat

            "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.