On 02 Sep 2010, at 21:01, Dan wrote:
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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- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
Thanks Dan, I managed to resolve this via Reader Prefs. but your
suggestion may be better for long term satisfaction.
Regards
Gerry
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