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Hi Joe, Hi all,

it's an old post but I had the same problem and it deserves an answer.

The \hypersetup gives you the option to set
\hypersetup{
pdfnewwindow=true, % links in new PDF window
% more options
}
(https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Hyperlinks#Local_file)

It worked for me ...