Hopefully the Acrobat product manager will get this message. Note: You may be prompted to enter your Admin Password.
In the right-pane, scroll down almost to bottom and click on Select as Default PDF Handler button. On preferences screen, click on General in the left pane. Users should not expect this sort of problem in software that has been on the market in various versions over the past 23 years. Due to phasing out of support for NPAPI plugins, even though you’ve disabled Chrome native PDF viewer in Google Chrome, it still doesn’t allow to open PDF files inline through the plugin of Adobe. Open Adobe Reader on your computer > click on the Edit tab in top-menu bar and select Preferences in the drop-down menu.
Choose Adobe Acrobat Reader DC or Adobe Acrobat DC in the list of programs, and then do one of the following: (Windows 10) Select Always use this app to open. It's clearly a bug in Adobe's more expensive Acrobat Standard DC and Acrobat Pro DC. Chrome is in our daily lives now serving a very broad set of features like extensions, themes, privacy settings and lot more. Right-click the PDF, choose Open With > Choose default program or another app in. After I did this I tried to open a PDF on a webpage and Chrome went crazy, flashing a blank tab open and closed repeatedly. Find the folder containing the PDF file, right-click on the.
Check the box at the end 'Open PDF files in the default viewer application, the Finished button. How do I get Chrome to open PDFs instead of Adobe Reader Windows Settings Launch the File Explorer on your computer. I now use Acrobat Pro DC for editing, and Acrobat Reader DC for checking the hyperlinks.Īdobe was able to get this feature to work on its free Acrobat Reader DC application. type chrome://settings/content in the Chrome address bar. I worked around this problem by installing Acrobat Reader DC, which correctly handles hyperlinked email addresses in PDFs: Outlook opens with a new message to the linked email address.
I have a second identical computer running Windows 10 Pro and Acrobat Standard DC (perpetual license), and on that computer Acrobat Standard DC also opens Chrome under the same circumstances. However, if I click on a hyperlinked email address in Acrobat Pro DC, Chrome opens. The Mailto protocol works if I click on a hyperlinked email address in Microsoft Word 2016 or PowerPoint 2016-Outlook 16 opens with a new message to the linked email address. I use Microsoft Outlook 2016 as my email application, and Google Chrome is my default browser.
I'm running Windows 10 Pro with Acrobat Pro DC (perpetual license). I have the same problem, but I found a workaround solution.