
You can also disable Edge internal PDF viewer from Windows registry. edge://settings/content/pdfDocuments Disable Internal PDF viewer via registry Adobe Acrobat reader can only open, view, fill & sign, comment and highlight, you have to pay for its Adobe Acrobat to get the OCR feature to make a PDF searchable. Or you can simply type the URL below in Edge browser to go directly to the PDF documents settings. Same as in Mac Preview, you can search PDF text in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, but if the original PDF file is not searchable, you cannot make it searchable in any Adobe reader. Under Site permissions, move the block to enable Edge to Always download PDF files. Since this script is not signed, leave the default settings as they are. By default the script runs in system context. Navigate to >Azure Portal> Intune> Device Configuration> PowerShell scripts.

When the Settings page opens, go to Cookies and site permissions. Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader DC with Intune and PowerShell. To disable PDF file in Edge and use external PDF apps instead, open the new Microsoft Edge, go to Settings and more > Settings. This may be a good feature for personal use, however, in some business environments, this not work as expected and a dedicated PDF application works great instead.

To get started with opening PDF files externally, follow the steps below: Open PDF file externallyīy default, Microsoft Edge uses its internal PDF viewer to open all PDF files. This might work for many, but there are few folks out there that might want to use Adobe Reader or other PDF applications for all PDF files. By default, Microsoft Edge tries to use its internal PDF viewer when dealing with PDF files in the browser.
