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mike m.10's avatar
mike m.10
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

PDF Preview functionality - how to disable?

I really, really dislike the Dropbox PDF preview functionality. It served my needs much better to have the PDF I click on in Dropbox open directly in Acrobat Reader. Is there a way to switch the PDF ...
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Megan C.13's avatar
Megan C.13
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

I think she was referring to my comment about wanting customers to be "forced" to download the file; clearly that word choice was misleading.

Even though I do want my customers to have to download the PDF to see it, I don't want it to be automatic. I just want the files to be able to be viewed without a preview -- All I want is the option to turn the preview off or on.

I want to be able to just NAVIGATE through files without the preview always popping up OR slowing everything down OR confusing my customers.

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