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meem · May 9, 2005, 11:48 AM

I have "Open safe files" unchecked. How do I stop this extremely annoying behavior in Safari 2.

Mithras · May 9, 2005, 12:42 PM

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...50422040229515

mitchell_pgh · May 9, 2005, 01:14 PM

Why would anyone want a PDF to open in their web browser? Perhaps I'm just on old hardware... I can't stand it in Windows.

meem · May 10, 2005, 02:17 AM

Thanks Mithras

von Wrangell · May 10, 2005, 03:14 AM

Originally Posted by mitchell_pgh

Why would anyone want a PDF to open in their web browser? Perhaps I'm just on old hardware... I can't stand it in Windows.

It's very useful when browsing through several science articles a day and by having them open in Safari you don't have to go through your dl folder trashing those articles that were irrelevant. Before Tiger I've had days where I would go through 50-150 science articles a day and having to filter through them after dl them all was driving me mad.

Now I just save those I want and don't have to filter through all the articles dl that day to trash the one I don't need.

meem · May 10, 2005, 03:34 AM

Thats a good point Wrangell. The reason I don't like them opening is because I am downloading PDFs all day all of which I have to use and 90 percent of the time have to edit/fix them so I need all of them to open in the the full version of acrobat. Your case is probably true for most people these days I just wish they made an easy method to toggle the default way Safari handles them

porieux · 06:50 AM

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mitchell_pgh · May 10, 2005, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by von Wrangell

It's very useful when browsing through several science articles a day and by having them open in Safari you don't have to go through your dl folder trashing those articles that were irrelevant. Before Tiger I've had days where I would go through 50-150 science articles a day and having to filter through them after dl them all was driving me mad.

Now I just save those I want and don't have to filter through all the articles dl that day to trash the one I don't need.

Good point... I guess I get stuck in "everyone is like me" mode from time to time. I can't stand when you open a PDF full of graphics and Safari grinds to a hault. I guess for word heavy documents it could be very useful.

Kristoff · May 10, 2005, 01:23 PM

I second von Wrangell......

that being said, it really should be an option that can be configured.

von Wrangell · May 10, 2005, 04:56 PM

I agree with those of you though that think it should be more configurable. Not everyone is in the situation I am in and IMO Apple has always been about getting things to work for the end user and because we are all different there should be a bit more options.

jszrules · Jun 19, 2005, 12:51 AM

Didn't the default in Panther's Safari used to be that it opened a .pdf in Acrobat? Did the default switch to "open-in-Safari" once Tiger came out or am I crazy?

Mithras · Jun 19, 2005, 05:45 AM

You are correct. They added a PDF renderer to WebKit.
Though actually the default in Panther was to open in Preview I think.

Curlywee · Jun 22, 2005, 11:58 PM

I found the new behaviour annoying at first but now I've got used to it. For multi-page documents, though, I use the contextual menu to open them in Preview and save from there if appropriate. It's nice that the path to the PDFs is to a temporary folder rather than one's download location (I'm assuming these files are deleted when Safari is shut down).