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Lost ability to view PDF files in Safari
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slpdLoad
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Jan 31, 2008, 06:11 PM
 
At one point or another, while running Tiger and 10.4.x, I believe I turned off Safari's ability to view PDFs within the browser, although I forget why I did this. Now I'm on Leopard and running Safari 3 but I still can't view PDFs and I would like to. When I click on a PDF link, the browser window turns grey and a menu comes up asking where I would like to save the PDF.

Since I'm on Leopard I can't use any of the old utilities to try and correct this as far as I know. What do I need to do to get Safari to work with PDFs again?

Thanks.
     
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Jan 31, 2008, 06:30 PM
 
Try reinstalling Adobe Reader.
     
slpdLoad  (op)
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Jan 31, 2008, 06:52 PM
 
That did it! Thanks for the quick reply. I don't know if it had to do with using Adobe Acrobat Professional 7 or not, but once I downloaded and installed the free Reader it started working again.

Cheers.
     
   
 
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