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Safari and Adobe Reader
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: WI, United States
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When opening a PDF file in Safari, Adobe does nothing. I get a blank, dark gray page; the same color as if it would have started to load.
Any ideas?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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What version of Safari, and what version of Reader?
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: WI, United States
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Safari 3.0.3 and Reader 7.0.9
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: New York, NY
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You can either go into Adobe Reader and disable its plug-in or repair itself. Most likely when you updated to Safari 3, the frameworks that Adobe copies into Safari were removed along with Safari 2. So, the plugin that lives in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ is trying to use frameworks that don't exist anymore.
Btw, Safari can read PDFs by itself so it's safe to remove the Adobe plug-in. Also, Adobe Reader 8 has much better plug-in support. It no longer modifies the Safari application.
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Vandelay Industries
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: WI, United States
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay 
You can either go into Adobe Reader and disable its plug-in or repair itself. Most likely when you updated to Safari 3, the frameworks that Adobe copies into Safari were removed along with Safari 2. So, the plugin that lives in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ is trying to use frameworks that don't exist anymore.
Btw, Safari can read PDFs by itself so it's safe to remove the Adobe plug-in. Also, Adobe Reader 8 has much better plug-in support. It no longer modifies the Safari application.
I'm not sure how to disable the plug-in or repair itself.
Thats probably what happened, because I'm sure I haven't viewed a PDF since Safari 3.
When you say its safe to remove the Adobe plug-in, does that mean the entire application?
And I'd love to use Adobe Reader 8, I was just unaware of its existence. How long has it been out?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: New York, NY
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Adobe Reader 8 has been out for nearly a year now.
You can remove the plug-in and still have Adobe Reader installed. The settings for the plug-in are within Reader's preferences. The option to do a self-repair is within the Help menu of Reader IIRC. If you update to Reader 8, it will take care of the plug-in when you install it.
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Vandelay Industries
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: WI, United States
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay
Adobe Reader 8 has been out for nearly a year now.
Wow, I was sure out of the loop there.
You can remove the plug-in and still have Adobe Reader installed. The settings for the plug-in are within Reader's preferences. The option to do a self-repair is within the Help menu of Reader IIRC. If you update to Reader 8, it will take care of the plug-in when you install it.
Thanks a lot! Man, I just love this place.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: New York, NY, USA
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I've never liked Adobe's PDF plugins. I use this one and it's great.
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The era of anthropomorphizing hardware is over.
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