The PDF format is probably one of the most universally used formats in the world and Adobe have made sure to intrinsically and irrevocably entwine their name with the term “PDF” so that it’s almost impossible to think of one and not the other. Most of the time, we will always seek ways to streamline our work processes to maximize efficiency and Adobe has really tried to address this by giving us Reader, Acrobat and Pro. You can also set this process to be automatic so that your PDFs will always download and open in Adobe Reader and not in Chrome first. Now when you open a PDF online, the extension will prompt you to open it in Adobe Reader. This activates the extension and allows you to use it in Chrome. On Chrome Settings screen, scroll down and click on Site Settings. Open Chrome browser > click on the 3-dots Menu icon and click on Settings in the drop-down menu. Download & Install Adobe Reader on your computer and follow the steps below to make Adobe as the default PDF viewers in Chrome browser.
Once you’ve installed the extension, start your Google Chrome (or restart it if it was already open) and you’ll see a popup window in the top right hand corner of the screen asking whether you want to enable the extension that you just downloaded, click on Enable Extension. Make Chrome Open PDF Files in Adobe Reader. You can go to the Chrome Store here, or you can follow the prompts that will show whenever you start Adobe Reader up after a fresh install or an update to download and install the extension.
