Opening Protected PDFs on Chrome

Use these steps to open protected PDF files on your computer's Chrome browser:

1. Set Adobe Reader as your system's default PDF viewer
   Note: If you do not have Adobe Reader on your system, please download and install it from the following link: https://get.adobe.com/reader/

   • Right-click on a PDF document, point to Open with and then click Choose default program...
     

   • Select Adobe Reader, check the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file checkbox, and then click OK.
     

2. Disable Chrome browser's PDF viewer 

   • Open the Chrome browser, type chrome://settings/content in the address bar and press Enter.

   • Check the Open PDF files in the default PDF viewer application check box, and then click Done.
     

3. Open a document from the data room on Chrome browser

   • Log in to the data room.

   • Right-click on a document and click View.

   • The document will download to your system.

4. Set Chrome to always open PDF documents in Adobe Reader

   • Right-click on the down arrow next to the downloaded document and then click Always open with system viewer option.
     

   • This will set Chrome to open all protected PDFs in Adobe Reader.