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copied!<h3>Opening a PDF in an external viewer such as Evince...</h3> <p>Google's branded Chrome browser includes the Chrome PDF Viewer plugin that displays PDFs in a new browser tab. The Chromium browser does not because <a href="http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome" rel="nofollow">Chrome PDF Viewer contains some proprietary code</a>. Instead, Chromium acts as described below (by default, presents a Save File prompt).</p> <p><em>(Only confirmed to work under Ubuntu Linux 10.04 (Lucid), Chromium 18.0.1025.151)</em></p> <p>In Chromium... Settings >> Under the Hood >> Downloads...</p> <p>The <em>Download Location</em> should be a directory where it won't be a problem if some PDF files you don't really want to keep wind up there, (such as ~/Downloads).</p> <p>Setting... <em>[ ] Ask where to save each file before downloading?</em></p> <ul> <li>if checked, clicking on a PDF will open the Save File dialog.</li> <li>if not checked, clicking on a PDF will immediately download it to the <em>Download Location</em> directory.</li> </ul> <p>In the lower-left corner, a blue arrow will briefly appear, followed by the prompt...</p> <pre><code> This type of file can harm your computer. Do you want to keep {filename} anyway? [Discard] [Keep] </code></pre> <p>If you click on [Discard]...</p> <ul> <li>The file will not be saved to your Downloads folder</li> <li>The file will not be opened in any PDF viewer</li> <li>You will be left with a blank tab</li> <li>Click the Back arrow to return to the page containing the link to the PDF</li> </ul> <p>If you click on [Keep]...</p> <ul> <li><p><strong>If not set to Auto-open PDFs</strong></p> <ul> <li>The PDF file will be downloaded while a progress button is updated in the lower-left corner of the browser</li> <li>Click on the filename at the left end of the button to open the PDF file in the external viewer (i.e. Evince)</li> <li>The external viewer is designated by the system-wide mimetype configuration file(s) which are one or more of... <ul> <li>/etc/mime.types</li> <li>/etc/mailcap</li> <li>~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list</li> </ul></li> <li>If you click on the down-arrow at the right end of the button you get four options... <ul> <li><em>Open</em> <ul> <li>Same as clicking on the filename.</li> </ul></li> <li><em>[ ] Always open files of this type</em> <ul> <li>Check box to automatically open files of this type, on completion of download, using the external viewer.</li> </ul></li> <li><em>Show in folder</em> <ul> <li>Opens the Download Location directory with the default system file browser such as Nautilus or PCManFM.</li> </ul></li> <li><em>Cancel</em> <ul> <li>Aborts the download.</li> <li>Grayed out on download completion.</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p><br></p></li> <li><p><strong>If set to Auto-open PDFs</strong> (<em>[ X ] Always open files of this type</em>)</p> <ul> <li><strong>The PDF file will be downloaded silently and then opened with external viewer (i.e. Evince)</strong></li> <li>The PDF will remain in the Download Location directory after the external viewer is closed.</li> <li>Manually delete the PDF by one of... <ul> <li>Click Remove from list on the chrome://downloads page.</li> <li>Use the File Browser. </li> </ul></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <ul> <li><p>At Settings >> Under the Hood >> Downloads</p> <ul> <li><p>The following option will be active (not grayed out)...</p> <pre><code>You have chosen to open certain file types automatically after downloading. [Clear Auto-opening Settings] </code></pre></li> <li><p>There is no option to clear the Auto-open for just PDFs or any other individual filetypes.</p></li> <li>To clear Auto-open for all filetypes, click on the button...<br> <code>[Clear Auto-opening Settings]</code></li> <li>Then reapply any Auto-opens desired</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p><strong>Supplemental</strong><br> Setting the default download location to a temporary directory, like /tmp/downloads, also works well. The PDF will be deleted on next reboot unless you explicitly move it or save it elsewhere.</p>

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