Stop PDFs from displaying inside Google Chrome
Solution 1:
You can disable the Adobe plugin in Chrome, which will force Chrome to download the PDF.
It's under Settings > Privacy and security > Site Settings > PDF documents. Or enter chrome://settings/content/pdfDocuments in your browser address bar to go straight there.
Solution 2:
browse to chrome://plugins and disable Chrome PDF Viewer
Solution 3:
Are you using Adobe Acrobat/Adobe Reader to display the PDFs? If so, it is probably Abode's behavior you need to modify.
Here are the steps I had to take:
- Open Adobe Reader
- Edit menu, Preferences
- Select Internet from the Categories list
- Uncheck Display PDF in browser
- Press OK
If you are using another application to view PDFs the steps are likely similar.
Re: Update
By any chance do you have both Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat installed? You may have to repeat the above steps in the other application.
Chrome is a little weird in that its default behavior is to download everything and make you open it yourself. When you click a PDF link do you see the filename in the "download bar" along the bottom of the window? If so, try right-clicking on it and un-check "Always open files of this type" if it is checked.
Solution 4:
In Google-Chrome: open a new tab, go to about:plugins and disable "Chrome PDF Viewer". This seems to have done the trick for me.