Open Adobe PDF in client application
Office 365 / SharePoint online needs to support opening PDF documents in SharePoint directly to client application (Adobe Acrobat Pro/DC).
As of this request, technical support has stated the only way to open PDF files in Acrobat is to download/save them.
SharePoint On Premise has supported this feature for some time.
Adobe PDF files are as common and Microsoft Office Suite documents and must be editable directly to/from SharePoint Online without the need to down/save edit, and upload which adds user overhead and lowers productivity.
Cory Candia
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JoePC
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"Adobe PDF File Handler for Office 365"
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/o365pdf/main.htmlHow-To: https://helpx.adobe.com/document-cloud/help/office365-configuring-sharepoint-onedrive.html
Just came across this. Seems like the solution.
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Prakhyat J Pandey
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This is now broken in SP 2013 on prem....anybody with a fix?
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Kaylee
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This would solve so many of my problems.
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Anonymous
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Encrypted (RMS / AIP / IRM) pdf files are needed to open via Acrobat Reader. (Browser doesn't have the capability to decrypt protected content.)
BUT, SharePoint doesn't allow to open file on Acrobat Reader.
No solution...
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Per Magnus Byström
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What about this method? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/file-handlers/?view=odsp-graph-online
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fixpdfplz
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Don't worry folks.. They just broke this in on-prem 2013, Windows 10 Acrobat DC and Reader DC also!
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Zain Swinton
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I like it so much how Microsoft forcing people to use different apps instead of SharePoint. Slack, in opposite, allows to open pdfs in app, or directly with Adobe reader or a browser tool like this one: https://edit-pdf.pdffiller.com/ At this point I've lost any hope it will get better, Microsoft has successfully converted to a shithole
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Michael
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Hi! My name is Microsoft and I just ignore one of the most requested features that people have been asking for 3 years now.
Sometimes i wonder what the point of this site is if they dont address popular requests. -
Anonymous
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Roxie, I already tried to disable the add-ons (as it used to work on prem SharePoint) but still the pdf is opened in browser and not in native application.
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Roxie
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If you disable the Adobe Reader in the Manage Add Ons (Settings>Manage Add Ons> All Add Ons), this will open PDFs in the native application
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Ian Howe
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The longer my company is on Office 365/SharePoint Online the more I'm regretting we ever made the move to it. Issues like this and many, many other SHOULD NOT EXIST.
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Tina
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Yes please work on a fix for this problem. Users want to be able to edit PDF files directly from SharePoint as they did in previous versions. Thanks, Tina
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Timon
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We've just migrated to SharePoint Online and this is a frustration for our users. Please fix this MS!
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Juan Gonzalez
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Latest address from Mark Kashman on this very topic:
https://twitter.com/jotap45/status/1066597865668063232Hope you can see it, but in essence his response is: "We are in active internal discussions with how to enable properly with right licensing intact at scale. Thanks for the highlighting and voting up."
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Anonymous
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We just migrated from Box and box would open all documents in the native application include adobe reader or acrobat depending on which app the client PC had as the default
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Meg94
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Truly this is a huge weakness. This lack of ability causes us to unnecessarily sync libraries.
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Anonymous
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This is whats stopping us from using SPO as our new DMS. :( Please fix this!
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JoeD
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Funny, Nadella touts the MS-Adobe partnership on stage at Ignite, but SPO can't even use Acrobat any more. I even stopped by the Adobe booth at Ignite and asked them about it, and they had no idea what I was talking about, then tried to sell me on their Sign product... LOL.
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Irritated
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Please for the love of all that is Business IT include the ability to edit PDF's from the library. How hard is it to open a PDF in the Adobe client? It seems with every new iteration of SharePoint Microsoft touts all of this new cool stuff, but FAILS miserably in reading what client needs are. The client needs are basic and more and more M$oft is dropping the ball. What will be the next thing nearly everyone uses that will be broken, taken away, or deprecated? PLEASE AT LEAST GIVE US THE ABILITY TO USE THE ADOBE CLIENT!!!
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Microsoft User
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This does seem to be a very basic failing. The prevalence of .pdf files would suggest that this is one of the absolute requirements. All office files can be opened in either the browser or the installed application (obviously) but surely allowing the file to be opened with an installed Adobe product must be an option? Especially as it opens the file in the current browser window and not a new tab/window, which makes looking at more than one file at a time a real problem.
This functionality would be greatfully received.