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How to Install and Enable the Adobe Acrobat Extension on Chrome in 3 Easy Steps

How to Install and Enable the Adobe Acrobat Extension on Chrome in 3 Easy Steps
Shaun M Jooste

Shaun M Jooste

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Pretty much everyone who works with PDF files works with Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat because of its accessibility and reliability. But how do you make it even easier to download and read PDFs online? You install the extension for it of course! In this guide, we’ll show you how to do just that.

How to Install and Enable the Adobe Acrobat Extension on Chrome

This extension requires either the free version of Adobe Reader, or one of the paid versions, to be installed on your machine for it to work properly. The extension seamlessly integrates Adobe Reader into Chrome to allow you to download and view PDFs easily. Now let’s get started!

Step 1: Install extension

You can go to the Chrome Store, or you can follow the prompts that will show whenever you start Adobe Reader up after a fresh install or an update to download and install the extension.

How to Install and Enable the Adobe Acrobat Extension on Chrome in 3 Easy Steps

Step 2: Enable extension

Once you’ve installed the extension, start your Google Chrome (or restart it if it was already open) and you’ll see a popup window in the top right-hand corner of the screen asking whether you want to enable the extension that you just downloaded, click on Enable Extension. This activates the extension and allows you to use it in Chrome.

How to Install and Enable the Adobe Acrobat Extension on Chrome in 3 Easy Steps

Step 3: Open Adobe Reader

Now when you open a PDF online, the extension will prompt you to open it in Adobe Reader. You can also set this process to be automatic so that your PDFs will always download and open in Adobe Reader and not in Chrome first.

How to Install and Enable the Adobe Acrobat Extension on Chrome in 3 Easy Steps

It All Connects!

Most of the time, we will always seek ways to streamline our work processes to maximize efficiency and Adobe has really tried to address this by giving us Reader, Acrobat and Pro. The PDF format is probably one of the most universally used formats in the world and Adobe have made sure to intrinsically and irrevocably entwine their name with the term “PDF” so that it’s almost impossible to think of one and not the other.

Shaun M Jooste

Shaun M Jooste

I live in South Africa, Cape town, as a father of two children. I've been gaming almost all my life, with plenty of experience writing reviews and articles on the latest titles. With 15 years of experience in local government performing Facilities Management functions, I moved towards becoming CEO of my own company, Celenic Earth Publications, which serves to publish author's books, including my own. I'm a published author of horror and fantasy novels, while I also dabble in game and movie scriptwriting.

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