The native Chrome PDF Viewer is the default way to open PDF files and view them in Chrome. It’s relatively simple to adjust your Chrome PDF viewer settings. You can toggle it on and off to either read PDFs in the browser or have them downloaded directly.

If you’d like PDFs to download, follow these steps:

1. In Chrome, click the three dots in the upper right corner of user browser window
2. Navigate to Settings

3. Click Privacy and security
4. Click Site settings  

5. Click Additional content settings

6. Click PDF Documents

7. Toggle on Download PDFs to have PDF files download in user computer, or;
8. Toggle on Open PDFs in Chrome to view files within user Chrome browser

Test to make sure your settings have changed by selecting a PDF file in user Chrome browser.