At 12:29 AM +0100 9/1/2010, Gerald Cornish wrote:
This problem has recently appeared - Safari displays PDFs on screen
instead of downloading the file, which I prefer. I have reset the
option NOT to do this in Onyx but it still happens. I know it is
trivial to load in Safari and then save the PDF but it should not
happen. I am not sure if it had anything to do with the update from
Safari 4.1 to 4.1.1 - it may have but I have not opened a PDF at
the right time to say so.
Did you recently install or update any Acrobat product, Adobe Reader,
etc? They fark with Safari's settings.
By default Safari uses its own crappy viewer, that chokes on complex
/ big PDFs.
Adobe Reader installs a plug-in that overrides Safari's behavior.
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin
Sometimes, you can change the preference settings in Reader to adjust
Safari's behavior. But that often breaks, from release to release.
So... the only "tried and true" method I've found is to rip out that
plugin then use this defaults command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES
HTH,
- Dan.
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