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Safari is Opening rather than downloading pdf's
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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Hello ...
I have Tiger at work and Panther at home ...
On safari at home ..... on a particular site there is a downloadble pdf. I click on it ... it downloads and preview opens it ...
However at work ... on the same site ... when I click on the downloadable pdf ... it opens as a page in safari. It doesn't download ... I have just installed Tiger on this computer.
Also ... I have a few pdfs on the desktop ... and when I click on get info ... open with ...
it does say Preview ... but I can't select "Change all" to "use this application to open all documents like this" .... it's greyed out.
Any thoughts on this anybody ....?
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It's a Tiger feature to show PDF in Safari inline. If you want to download the document you need to option-click the link.
The Change All button is grayed out because all PDF documents already open in Preview.
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Never mind, TETENAL beat me to it.
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Vandelay Industries
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You can disable safari's handeling of PDF's by opening terminal and typing:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES
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Mac Enthusiast
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Originally Posted by Solsonic 
You can disable safari's handeling of PDF's by opening terminal and typing:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES
Thanks I'll try that ....
I don't like the way Safari opens pdfs ... because you can't zoom in on the text.
I'm surprised there isn't a pref somewhere to disable that ... it's kind of Microsoftish ... our way or the highway!
In other words ... don't do something that I'm not asking for .... Word is famous for that .. so many automatic features that you don't know how to turn off ...
Regards
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Originally Posted by bergy
I don't like the way Safari opens pdfs ... because you can't zoom in on the text.
I found out that right-clicking on the pdf in Safari will indeed give you the option to zoom in/out. I just figured that out by chance a few days ago.
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Originally Posted by Morpheus
I found out that right-clicking on the pdf in Safari will indeed give you the option to zoom in/out. I just figured that out by chance a few days ago.
It also allows you to open the file in Preview.
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On the same subject but slightly different is their any way if you were building a web page you could force safari to open the page using preview??
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As a web author, why would you want to exclude over 90% of your potential audience?
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