How to : Hide Adobe Reader Toolbars when Opening a PDF in Web Browser

For the explanation’s sake, let us consider a simple URL which displays the PDF form.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf

In reality this will be replaced by the application URL of the application.

Step 1: Removing the toolbar

Append “#toolbar=0” at the end of the URL as shown in the screenshot below

Note that the toolbar is no longer visible in the rendered PDF.

Step 2: Removing the Navigation Panes, Status Panes and setting other properties.

Now, to remove additional toolbars such as Navigation Panes , Status Bar just append the following to the URL separating each of the qualifiers by “&”.

So the URL would look like –

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf#toolbar=0&statusbar=0&navpanes=0

Note that none of the toolbars are visible now.

You can also set the Zoom property to 100% by adding one more qualifier “&zoom=100” to the URL.