Open PDFs stored outside the vault with internal PDF viewer

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What I’m trying to do

I learned from this forum, that opening a PDF on a specific page is not possible when using an external PDF viewer.

So I would like to open a PDF file with the internal viewer, even if it is stored outside the vault.

To link to an external PDF I have to use markdown links. But when using markdown links then PDFs will open in the external PDF viewer.

Question 1: is it possible to open PDFs stored outside the vault with internal PDF viewer?
Question 2: if question 1 is true, can I specify a specific page then?

Things I have tried

Tried to use Wikilinks to open external PDFs, but Obsidian shows an error about the colon : in the file path of an absolute path name in Windows (C:\path\to\doc.pdf).

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I should have mentioned that I don’t have permissions for mklink and Community Plugins on my company’s PC. So copying PDFs into my vault will be my last resort.

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You can use the External PDF files feature (aka dummy pdfs) provided by PDF++ plugin

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