{"id":99,"date":"2011-02-09T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=99"},"modified":"2011-02-09T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T16:04:00","slug":"top-tip-stop-google-chrome-opening-pdfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Top Tip: Stop Google Chrome opening PDFs"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a quick top tip for a problem which has been bugging me for some time. <\/p>\n

EDIT: This is my 100th post!  Where’s the cake?<\/span><\/b>

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Someone on twitter called @longcreative<\/a> said “Love Chrome. Really hate how it handles PDFs.<\/a>” which stirred me into action. I too like using the Chrome web browser<\/a>, but I have really hated how it opened PDFs automatically with it’s own viewer.<\/p>\n

 Okay you may not like Adobe’s offering either but I really don’t remember being given any the choice as to how PDFs are handled. To be honest until recently I thought I was using Adobe Reader in Chrome and they had done a special version just for Chrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Damn you Chrome PDF Viewer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

So how does one go about disabling Chrome’s (mis)handling of PDFs?  Simple type this in the address bar:<\/p>\n

about:plugins<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then scroll down to the obviously labelled “Chrome PDF Viewer<\/b>” and click on “disable<\/span>“.  You could also from here re-enable Adobe’s offering but may I suggest you choose to leave both alone and download the pdf, scan it for viruses and only then open it in your favourite PDF reader?<\/p>\n

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On<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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