Hello Rafael, It's nice to hear from another person who is still using Tiger!
I can recap some of this discussion by pointing to a thread in the archives just before Leopard came out. It had started out with a discussion about general maintenance tools like OnyX, and then went on the issue of PDF display/download settings in Safari and performance issues in general (which should be much better in Leopard). Here's a link to one post: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg19660.html (Re: Avoiding Safari freezes related to displaying PDF files [was Re: A Note About Onyx]) Cheers, Esther On June 02, 2008, at 08:11AM, Rafael Bejarano wrote: >Hello, > >I don't know if I can be of help, as I use Tiger, but when I have >trouble downloading pdf files, I use the following work-arounds: > >The first of these involves positioning the cursor over the download >icon, turning off voiceover, and clicking on the icon with the mouse. >After 30 seconds or so, I hit Command-S to save, turn on voiceover, >move the cursor to the Save button, turn off voiceover, and click >save with the mouse. I do these things because Safari freezes up if I >try to download pdf files without first turning off voiceover. > >The second work-around is to allow safari to download the pdf file. >After that, I bring up the print dialogue, click on preview to launch >it, and save the pdf file from within preview. > >As I noted above, neither of these options may be useful or relevant >to you if you don't use Tiger. > >Cordially, >Rafael Bejarano > >The >On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > >> Dear Listers, >> >> I've just subscribed to a professional journal on the Web. The >> website gives me access to regular issues of a bulletin in PDF >> format. I can find the link which is the title of the current >> issue. I click on it with VO+spacebar and then I hit a problem. I >> get a message from Safari that it cannot find an apropriate PDF >> reader to open the page. I am presented with a dialogue from which >> to choose a compatible reader but I cannot find it in the list >> applications. In my case, I use Preview but I cannot see it in the >> dialogue that Safari offers me. And yet, Preview is definitely >> there in my list of Applications folder. Ideally, I don't really >> want to open the file on the web, I ideally want to download it >> into a folder on my computer. However, clicking on the title of the >> bulletin does not give me an option to download the PDF file. On >> the windows side, I can right click on the title in IE6 and choose >> save target as... But in Safari, I don't know how to do it. Can >> anyone give me some clues as to how to achieve my purpose? Why >> doesn't safari recognise Preview as a legitimate PDF reader? >> >> Many thanks in advance. >> >> Simon >> >> > > > >
