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A SharePoint site is a Web site that provides a central storage and collaboration space for documents, information, and ideas. It helps groups of people (whether work teams or social groups) share information and work together. It is also dynamic and interactive making the members of the site contribute their own ideas and content as well as comment on or contribute to other people’s work and idea.

When you try to open a PDF from within SharePoint you are forced to download the file.

This is annoying and can be avoided.

We do not actually need this functionality, so here are the steps to fix this:

Go into your central administration on your server.
Go under general settings.
Change "Browser File Handling" and select Permissive.
Click Ok.
Go back to the browser, reload and click the link to the PDF.