Friday, July 24, 2009

Can't view Adobe PDF's in IE

Do you have Acrobat and Reader installed? This may also work for old Adobe versions as well.

You click on an adobe doc and rather than the document opening in a separate tab, a box comes up and tells you "The adobe acrobat/reader that is running can not be used to view PDF files in a web browser"

Fix is to open each Adobe and choose Edit-Preferences
Find Internet on the left side and look for "Display PDF in web browser" Uncheck this. Yes, uncheck it, while it sounds retarded since you actually want to open them in the browser this makes Adobe do something. After you do it for all versions, close IE and re-open it. Find the PDF and click on it, you should get prompted asking if you would like to open PDF files in the browser, say yes and you should be back in business.

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