Search This Blog

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

SharePoint 2010 PDF icon and display in browser

You have to make some edits to allow SharePoint to display the PDF Icon in the libraries.
Here is the KB article on this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832809

You have to download the small icon from Adobe at:
http://www.adobe.com/images/pdficon_small.gif

Once you have the icon fixed you will notice that when you click the document it asks to save and does not open in the browser PDF viewer.
This is due to a change in security with IE8 and above.

I found the fix on the following site:
http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/2010/05/opening-pdf-files-in-sharepoint-2010/

It involves changing the Web Application / General Settings / Browser File Handling to Permissive instead of Strict (which is the default).
Don't forget to also change this on the MySite web application as well !

No comments: