Sometimes, the PDFs in MS Edge are inaccessible due to incompatibility with the program, system has outdated PDF viewer program, damaged or corrupted Adobe Acrobat program. Hence, the default PDF Viewer application is changed. Select the PDF Viewer application (Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Edge) from the list and click on OK. Against the Open with section, click the Change option against the file. Note: One more option to change the default viewer of your PDF file is right-clicking on the file and selecting the Properties option. pdf box to set it as a default PDF viewer.
Solution 1 – Changing default PDF viewing setting in MS Edge.You can try for the following three solutions one by one and self experience the results or outcomes. Also, with MS Edge, there is always a security threat by hackers and because of these interruptions the users are unable to access PDF files with MS Edge. This error may arise because of the already installed PDF readers program their interruptions with MS Edge caused corruption errors in PDF files.
Unlike other Windows versions those supported opening PDF files with other readers it solely opens and previews PDFs primarily.īecause of some limitations with MS Edge, for example – minimal access controls (zoom in & zoom out), sending PDF attachment in Outlook and some other convenient features, the users install other PDF readers (Adobe Acrobat, Foxit Reader, Acrobat Reader, etc.) Sometimes, while trying to open the PDF files, there pops up an error like this – “PDF could not open in Edge” Microsoft Edge definitely acts as a default PDF viewer for the documents but remains as default even when any other PDF reader like Acrobat reader is installed. It means it will automatically open the PDF documents. This newly introduced browser Microsoft Edge is the default PDF viewer as well in system with Windows 10.
It is just same as the Internet Explorer comes as a default web browser with earlier versions of Windows 7 or 8. MS Edge comes as a default web browser when you install Windows 10.