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Update: 10th June 2012

A few people have posted comments about the script not working for SharePoint 2010. This code was built for SharePoint 2007. However I have been through the code and an updated version can be found below.

Apologies that it has taken a while to respond.

The SharePoint 2010 Code version works slightly differently and uses the jQuery Live method and JavaScript OnMouseOver event to update the PDF’s a tags.

Introduction

One of our clients wanted a way to ensure that Adobe PDF’s did not open in the current browser window.

By default a PDF opened into Adobe Acrobat will open in the current browser window.

This presents a usability problem as user’s lose the reference to the site they were in also other applications, such as Word and Excel, do not behave in this way.

How Acrobat opens a document…