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Re: PDF Default Behavior

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From: Travis Roth
Date: Mar 20, 2009 8:45AM

It is a setting in Adobe Reader preferences if a PDF file opened from the
internet should be displayed in the browser or not.
Look under Preferences.Internet dialog in Adobe Reader.


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In fact, Jakob Neilsen recommends opening PDFs and other
non-HTML pages in the appropriate application, rather
than inside a browser window.
cf. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/open_new_windows.html

"Waltenberger, Lon (LNI)" wrote:
> I think it's best to go by convention, or what users see on 80% of the
> sites they visit, and to not override default behavior because that's
> what users are accustomed to.
>
> Even though I agree with Nielsen about not opening new browser windows,
> that argument didn't prevail in our design planning for our public site.

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