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How to Open & Preview PDF Files in VSCode IDE With Built in Editor to Read them
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Jul 5, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you how to
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preview your PDF files directly inside
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VS Code. You can open them, just read
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them like normal files. By default, VS
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Code doesn't have a built-in PDF uh
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previewer. There is extension that you
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can install here which is called as VS
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code- PDF. If you just write this the
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very first extension which comes right
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here, this is the extension I'm talking
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about. display PDF file in VS Code. So
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basically it's used by almost 9 million
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developers. So it's a very good
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extension. Simply click the install
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button. And as soon as you click the
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install button now you can actually
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preview your PDF files. So let me just
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open this PDF file here. Side by side
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inside this VS code itself you will see
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the live preview of the PDF file. You
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can see we have all the controls. We can
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navigate to any page. We can go to the
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next page. We can read this. We also
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have the automatic zoom functionality as
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well. If you want to zoom in or zoom
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out, you also have these buttons to
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actually you have this open file button.
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So here you can actually open any file
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here.
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So you can select any file here.
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So it's easy. That's easy.
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And then we also have the download
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button
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as well. It's a complete editor. You can
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even print. So you can see it's
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preparing your document for printing
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purposes as well. So all these things
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you can do this. You can rotate the page
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clockwise. This is your hand tool. So
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you can move it basically any section.
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So in this easy way you can do this you
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preview your PDF files you can check out
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the document properties as well file
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name file size creation date creator
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producer version size all these things
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you can do that so all these buttons are
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there so you can basically
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install this extension and go to last
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page go to first page all these buttons
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you can see
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it's a great extension so definitely
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Install this extension guys. Go just
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simply go to extensions just type VS
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code PDF and this is the extension.
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Simply install it and please hit that
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like button, subscribe the channel and
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also check out my website free
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mediatools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools.