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When browsing in Internet Explorer to a SharePoint 2013 site, by default the only option for uploaded PDFs is to “Save.” In order to give you the options to open different file types from the SharePoint site you will need to adjust Browser File Handling to “Permissive” instead of the Default “Strict” setting.
It normally wouldn’t make a difference but there appears to be a bug in the SharePoint pdf viewer that doesn’t recognize all hyperlinks. They show in blue but there is no link. We have a pdf with many hyperlinks to other documents on the SharePoint site. When the pdf is opened in a web browser all the hyperlinks work correctly.
Why is my PDF file not opening in Word Online?
If you clicked on the file from the library, it would try to open Word Online in a new browser tab, and would give the error message in the image above: “ Hmm… looks like this file doesn’t have a preview we can show you ”.
Can you open a PDF in a web browser?
We have a pdf with many hyperlinks to other documents on the SharePoint site. When the pdf is opened in a web browser all the hyperlinks work correctly. If anyone is curious how to make the hyperlinks fail in the SharePoint viewer here is what we did.
When Sharepoint opens Word file by Open-Open in browser and Open in app, it creates a connection between Word Desktop application and Sharepoint, same applies to Word online. How can it be done with a non-Microsoft application, like Adobe Reader or Fox reader or myriad of other pdf readers?
In order to give you the options to open different file types from the SharePoint site you will need to adjust Browser File Handling to “Permissive” instead of the Default “Strict” setting. Browse to your SharePoint Central Admin Site, under Application Management select “Manage web applications.”