Before you download and install the Adobe Acrobat Plugin, or before you choose an Adobe Acrobat alternative, you may want to compare the main features with another program. We've provided a comprehensive comparison between Adobe Acrobat and the Adobe alternative PDFelement below. Comparison of PDFelement and Adobe Acrobat Plugin.
Geethu, this is the Nitro add-on. As stated above, This add-on is not compatible with IE11 running on Windows 8.n 64-bit (at least for this machine). You install the Acrobat add-on, and Windows immediately flags it incompatible. Examine Registry entries, and it appears that Windows is unable to use this add-on, because it is outdated software. Windows tries, maybe a little bit too aggressively, to install Nitro's Acrobat add-on, creating browser placeholders, etc. But the product is not compatible, so all that happens is the registry gains 'useless' entries, and Program Files (x86) gains useless folders and files. Not that Nitro is malware. So the question remains: where is the PDF add-on for IE11 on current EFI 64-bit Windows 8.1 desktop systems?
Hmm. Installing Adobe's Creative Cloud enables the IE11 save HTML as PDF in several ways. Is it that Windows and Office are co-dependent on Adobe's Creative Cloud membership? Compare services like Expert PDF Components. Or free services, one of dozens being PDF Crowd. Online services function without issue. What is blocking browser PDF management for this EFI Windows desktop system?
Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin Ie 11
Well, Adobe CC implements the PDF capabilities of Microsoft software (and visa versa). Recommendation for 2013 October subscribers to Office 365 who previously rely on PDF add-ons to complete web-to-pdf downloads... recommendation is to add Adobe CC and 10,000 unnecessary Acrobat capabilities to the growing list of hard times monthly expenses.
Unlike Microsoft Office 365 and Symantec Norton 360, starter subscription rates at Creative Cloud will respectively exact 3,300% and 3,000% increases in operating system monthly costs.
Oh! You have herein been forwarned that CC apps are not exactly working yet (at least, none of them except Acrobat, for this machine). Also, security threats are now cutting deeply into support, with Adobe professionals stating, 'We have no time to deal with application development, due to increasing security threats...' (1-800-833-6687 for the latest security threats updates from Adobe's main telephone support number).
Still advancing our question (perhaps breaking into a cold sweat now), where is any compatible PDF add-on for IE11 on current EFI 64-bit Windows 8.1 desktop systems?
You can open PDFs on a web page either within your web browser or in Acrobat or Reader. Find instructions specific to each browser below.
Note:
Each browser has its own settings to control how PDFs open from a web page. Acrobat and Acrobat Reader do not include a preference setting to open web-based PDFs. To change the display behavior, follow the instructions below for your browser, or see the browser documentation on how to control plug-ins or add-ons.
- Open Internet Explorer, and choose Tools > Manage Add-ons.
- Under Add-on Types, select Toolbars and Extensions.
- Select All Add-ons from the Show menu in the Manage Add-ons dialog box.
- Note:If you do not see the Adobe PDF Reader add-on, try the other options on the menu. For example, on some systems, the add-on appears when you select Run Without Permission.
- Click the Enable or Disable button (it toggles depending on the status of the selected add-on):Enable sets the Adobe PDF Reader add-on to open PDFs in the browser.Disable turns off the add-on so it does not open PDFs in the browser.Select Adobe PDF Reader, and click the Enable/Disable button.For more information, see the Internet Explorer help topic Manage add-ons in Internet Explorer.
Microsoft Windows 10 will ship with two browsers: Internet Explorer 11 and the new Edge browser.
The Edge browser will be the default browser, and Internet Explorer 11 will be available to support legacy workflows. The new Edge browser will not have any support for ActiveX plug-ins. Therefore, the Acrobat/Reader plug-in won't work with Edge. For more information, see Change in support for Acrobat and Reader plug-ins in modern web browsers.
Use Internet Explorer 11 to open PDFs. To enable the Acrobat/Reader plug-in in Internet Explorer, see the steps in the previous section.
The Acrobat/Reader plug-in for Mozilla Firefox is based on Netscape Plug-In API (NPAPI), which is supported only till Firefox version 51. With Firefox version 52, support for NPAPI plug-ins is removed, and hence the current Acrobat/Reader plug-in will not work.
The Acrobat/Reader plug-in for Google Chrome is based on the Netscape Plug-In API (NPAPI) technology. Google announced that in April 2015 NPAPI plug-in support would be disabled by default in the Google Chrome web browser, with an override capability for advanced users. In September 2015, NPAPI support in the Google Chrome web browser was removed entirely.
For more information, see Change in support for Acrobat and Reader plug-ins in modern web browsers.
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The Acrobat/Reader plug-in for Apple Safari is based on Netscape Plug-In API (NPAPI), which is supported only till Safari version 11. In Safari 12, support for NPAPI plug-ins is removed, and hence the current Acrobat/Reader plug-in will not work.
To view PDFs with Safari, you can do one of the following:
- Set Safari preferences to use Adobe Reader plug-in
- Disable AdobePDFViewer plug-in to use the default Safari PDF viewer
Set Safari preferences to use Adobe Reader plug-in to view PDFs
- In the Preferences window, choose Security and then click the Website Settings button for Internet plug-ins.
- Now select Adobe Reader in the list of plug-ins.Under the option When visiting other Websites, in the drop-down list, choose Allow Always and then click Done.Note:This will set the browser to use the Adobe Reader plug-in to view PDFs.
Disable AdobePDFViewer plug-in to use the default Safari PDF viewer
You must have root user privileges to change Safari plug-ins. To display PDFs using the Safari PDF viewer, you must disable the Adobe PDF Viewer.
- Log in as the root user. The root user privileges aren't enabled by default because the root user can change system files. For more information and instructions, see one of the following Apple documents: Enabling and using the 'root' user in Mac OS X or OS X Mountain Lion: Enable and disable the root user.
- Type /Library in the Go to the Folder field, and click Go.
- Create a new folder in the Library folder, and name it Internet Plug-ins Disabled.
- Open the Internet Plug-ins folder, and move both the AdobePDFViewer.plugin and the AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin into the new Internet Plug-ins Disabled folder.Note:If both AdobePDFViewer plug-ins are still in the Internet Plug-ins folder, drag them now to the trash. You may be asked for your name and password.For more information on disabling or removing plug-ins, see Apple Safari help.
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