How to stop PDFs from opening in the viewer

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Athenian
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How to stop PDFs from opening in the viewer

Post by Athenian »

I asked this before and never got a fix.

How do I prevent the Editor from opening in a browser window? Nothing I've tried has made any difference. The only way I've found to deal with this is to set a different (not as good) program as my default PDF reader.

It's an inconvenient workaround for me and it's definitely not something I expect new users to do.

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Re: How to stop PDFs from opening in the viewer

Post by Stefan - PDF-XChange »

hello Athena,

To be able to answer you that - we will need to know which your browser is.
Also have you tried the Edit -> Preferences -> File Associations, and uncheck the "View PDF Files in Browsers" checkbox?

Regards,
Stefan