How To Fix Chrome Won’t Open PDF Issue By Chad Buenaflor Posted on August 3, 2022 Updated on August 31, 2023 Is your Chrome PDF viewer not working?

See what you can do to fix the problem quickly. Adobe Acrobat Reader could not open PDF Earlier, Acrobat products performed no checks on the extraneous bytes present before the %PDF-header.

This is especially true of PDF files since Chrome can't open them natively and thus hands them over to other applications, the default being Google Drive's PDF viewer.