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Fabian5FA4
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January 27, 2022
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Open local PDSs in Edge extension

  • January 27, 2022
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Hello,

 

I've recently installed the Acrobat extension for MS Edge and for some reason, PDFs are only displayed in the extension viewer when I open them directly from a website. Local files however are displayed using the standard Edge PDF viewer.

Is there anything I can do to fix this issue?

 

BR

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Amal.
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Amal.Community Manager
Community Manager
January 28, 2022

Hi Fabian,

 

Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble. As described, the default PDF viewer for your local PDF files is MS Edge and not Acrobat DC.

 

Please try to make the Acrobat DC as the default PDF viewer as described here https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/not-default-pdf-owner-windows10.html and check.

 

Also, it is a know issue with MS Edge becoming the default PDF viewer. Please go through the similar discussion i have found on MS support page https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/microsoft-edge-keeps-making-itself-the-default-pdf/08212e29-8bee-4c17-9339-bb49281e9899?page=1 and see if that helps.

 

Let us know if you are referring to something else.

 

Regards

Amal

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Fabian5FA4Author
New Participant
January 28, 2022

Hi Amal,

thanks for your reply.

 

What I intended to acchieve was to use the edge browser with the Acrobat EXTENSION as default PDF viewer for local files, not the Acrobat desktop application. The extension works great when I open a PDF from an external site, but not when I open a PDF from my computer's file system. In this case, the file is displayed in the default Edge PDF viewer.

 

Best regards,

Fabian

    Amal.
    Community Manager
    Amal.Community Manager
    Community Manager
    January 31, 2022

    Hi Fabian

     

    The Acrobat extension on MS Edge is used to view the online PDF files. To open the PDF files stored locally on your system it has to be with Adobe Acrobat/Reader DC application as described earlier.

     

    Regards

    Amal

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