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Teachers at Wawaloam use Pearson SuccessNet resources. SuccessNet has videos which are solid resources for teachers and students. Unfortunately, Pearson embeds the SuccessNet videos inside PDF files. (Seriously, why build that proprietary hurdle, Pearson? Why?)

In order to view the SuccessNet videos, IT installed Adobe Reader on many Wawaloam teachers' laptops. With the Adobe Reader installed, SuccessNet videos play well. A big problem is, the Adobe Acrobat Reader installation disables Chrome's ability to display PDF files natively. That's a problem for EWG teachers who want to print PDF files to a school printer.

There is, however, an easy way to toggle how your Macbook - and Chrome - handle PDF files. Simply put, when you want to print your PDFs to a school printer, you enable Chrome's default PDF viewer. And, when you want to play a Reading Street video, you disable Chrome's default PDF viewer.

Don't panic. The straightforward process of toggling between the two modes is outlined in the video below.

Once you set Chrome to use its built in, default viewer, you can send PDFs directly to SharpFindMe via Cloudprint. If you're not sure how to do that, there is a brief video that demonstrates printing PDFs in EWG that was included in a recent post.

Still stuck? Please contact me.