Citing security concerns, the company wants Chrome to open PDF files by default, bypassing any third-party programs such as Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader.

Adobe Acrobat is widely used in business, and documents ranging from brochures to company reports are often shared in Acrobat's PDF file format. By default, Acrobat displays Web-based PDF ...

You can easily change your default PDF viewer on your Windows PC to Adobe’s Acrobat Reader for files you download to your PC or open in your browser.

How to Make Adobe Acrobat the Default PDF Viewer. The PDF, or portable document format file, was created to transform output from any document creation software into a file almost any recipient ...

This may be pretty niche, but I read a lot for work as a scientist, a lot of PDFs. While I can tolerate iPad not opening pdfs in Adobe by default, it's just one more tap to open in Adobe.

See what you can do to fix the problem quickly. Adobe Acrobat Reader could not open PDF Earlier, Acrobat products performed no checks on the extraneous bytes present before the %PDF-header.