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Links to PDF files open in browser instead of in new window. Or in new window instead of browser.
You may prefer to have your PDF links open in the browser when the user clicks them while viewing web pages made from your PowerPoint files.
Or you may prefer to have them open in an independent Acrobat Reader window.
But in fact, the decision is up to the individual user. The behavior you see when you click a link to a PDF file depends on an Acrobat Reader preference setting.
To set it:
- Start Reader (or presumably Acrobat).
- Choose Edit, Preferences from the main menu.
- In the dialog that opens, click Internet in the list on the left.
- In the pane on the right, put a checkmark next to Display PDF in Browser if you want PDF links to open in the browser or remove the checkmark if you want PDFs to open in an independent Reader window.
- Click OK.
- Restart both Reader and the browser.
If this doesn't make PDF links work the way you want them to, check the following:
- What version of Reader do you have? Are updates available? This particular feature did not work in Reader 8, for example. It does in versions 7 and 9.
- Do you have another program that displays PDFs installed on your computer? It may take over displaying PDFs in the browser, even though you've set Reader as the program to open PDFs with (we've seen this with FoxIt Reader, for example). If that happens, your Reader settings won't affect what happens in the browser, since it's the other program that's displaying the PDFs.