If you’re a Google Chrome user for Android, you’ll know that every time you want to look at a PDF document (like a restaurant menu) from the browser, you have to: Download and open the file in question with a PDF reader Since the browser does not have a built-in local reader, you install it on your mobile phone. At least that was the case until now.

We’ve been waiting a long time for a native PDF reader to come to Google Chrome, and at the beginning of the year we learned that the company was working on one. At the time, it was only available in Google Chrome Canary (the experimental version of the browser), but it has just reached the stable version. Of course, you need to enable it for it to work.

This is how you can enable native PDF reader on Android

As reported by Android Authority, native PDF support for Google Chrome is now rolling out to all users and works perfectly for now. It is necessary to make a change flag to prove it. It won’t take long for it to officially arrive, but you don’t have to wait to reap its benefits.

The arrival of a native PDF reader was something eagerly awaited by Google Chrome users, especially considering that Browsers like Firefox already let you open PDFs from the browser. Thanks to this change, we do not have to use an additional application that adds some trouble to the process and is not very useful.

Enabling the experimental feature is as simple as changing a flag in Google Chrome. For this, just write Chrome://flags/ in the address bar You will see that the panel appears where we can access the experimental functions of the browser. Once here you can use the search engine to find the ‘ option.Turn on PDF Inline on AndroidActivate by selecting ‘ and ‘activated‘.

To test the operation of the local PDF reader you will need to restart the browser and search for a PDF document on the internet. As you can see, Google Chrome will now be able to open the file directly, eliminating the need to download the file and use a third-party PDF reader.

Native reader not only allows you to view PDF documents you access from the browser, but also editing tools We can access it by clicking on the pencil icon that appears in the lower right corner as soon as we open a PDF from Google Chrome. This way we can underline important parts of a document and save a copy in case we need it.

via | Android Authority

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