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mike m.10's avatar
mike m.10
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

PDF Preview functionality - how to disable?

I really, really dislike the Dropbox PDF preview functionality. It served my needs much better to have the PDF I click on in Dropbox open directly in Acrobat Reader. Is there a way to switch the PDF ...
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Robert P.42's avatar
Robert P.42
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Unfortunately when I share a PDF file via a link from Dropbox when the user opens the link the file opens in a viewer that does not support any of the many internal links that are in the PDF document.  Hence the user is getting a stripped down version of a document that we spent a great deal of effort to create.  If the document would only open in a native PDF reader we would be good to go.  Unfortunately, based on the above comments we are forced to look for an alternate solution to deploy documents.

Anyone have recommendations on alternate delivery methods?

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