Dear Esther,
thank you so much for the detailed instructions. I shall do what you
have suggested. I've been using my Mac since just before Christmas
now, and I must say that I'm falling in love with it and Voiceover
more and more. Fantastic!
With best wishes
Simon
On 2 Jun 2008, at 19:29, Esther wrote:
Hi Simon,
What you may want to do is set Safari to download your PDF files
by using a general freeware maintenance tool like OnyX. Someone
else (Dan Keys?) may want to chime in with instructions for the
Leopard version, but here's what I think you want to do once you've
downloaded and started this application:
1. Go to Preferences
2. Select the tab for Safari
3. Uncheck the box to automatically open ,pdf files in Safari
The reason that Preview isn't being used is that it only works on
files
that are on your own machine. The current default settings for your
Safari browser display the PDF file within the browser through an
application plugin. If you download the PDF files you will not be
using resources in your browser cache that contribute to the
"Safari, busy" messages that you get when you load your system.
You can get OnyX from:
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/download.html
Choose the version that works for your operating system -- there
are different versions for Leopard, Tiger, Panther, and Jaguar,
as well as the latest beta version for Leopard at that page.
(To make it easier for you, here is the direct link for the current
Leopard stable version disk image:
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/joel.barriere/dl/105/OnyX.dmg
In general you want to use the previous downloads link to
check for the latest versions.)
A couple of advisories: OnyX runs through an installer, and must
also be uninstalled if you install a new version. The software
should prompt you about this, say, if you've upgraded your
operating system and try to run the old version. You'll need to
run the uninstaller that comes with the application befores
installing the new version. I'm not running Leopard, so I can't
check the settings and give detailed instructions. Maybe
someone else on the list can help out.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On June 02, 2008, at 07:38AM, 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
