Open PDF documents in Browser Itself - SharePoint Document Library

         Open SharePoint 2010 documents library to open pdf documents in local drive, then how to open those pdf
in browser itself. Lets join a journey with me.................
  SharePoint UI                                 

•  Central Admin.             
•   Select WebApplication under Application Management.                      

•    General Settings.

•   Default Browser File Handling is Strict. Look like this

 

•   Change the option Browser File Handling to Permissive.

•     Perform iisreset and open pdf files in document library.       

    PowerShell

           Using powershell comment to set BrowserFileHandling property.

                Getting library from site.
                                       $web= Get-SPWeb -Identity “SiteUrl”

                                       $library= $web.Lists["LibraryName"]

                Check the BrowserFileHandling.

                            $library.BrowserFileHandling

                Set the value to Permissive

                           $library.BrowserFileHandling = "Permissive"

                           $library.Update()

  Perform iisreset and open pdf files in document library. 

  MIME Type:

            One more option is available to set MIME type, if the above techniques is went wrong,  go ahead this way.............

             
               Getting web application.

                             $curWebApp = Get-SPWebApplication "webappurl"    

  

                Add pdf in MIME type.   

                  $curWebApp.AllowedInlineDownloadedMimeTypes -contains "application/pdf"
                  $curWebApp.Update()

                 Check the PDF type.

                  $curWebApp.AllowedInlineDownloadedMimeTypes -contains "application/pdf"

                  Result : true

  Perform iisreset and open pdf files in document library.