PDF files won't open in Safari

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PDF files won't open in Safari

I'm not sure when this happened but it seems recently...when I go to sites which have pdf files attached (e.g. Yamaha electonics/support/user manuals)the pdf files no longer load within Safari nor download to be opened in their own window. I have Adobe Reader 8.0 and Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.0. Ho do I restore Safari's ablity to find the corrrect plug in and use it to open pdf files?

Message was edited by: Merlin Macuser

G5 Dual 2GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.5), 4 GB RAM;

Posted on Dec 15, 2008 8:50 AM

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Mulder

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Dec 15, 2008 8:56 AM in response to Merlin Macuser

Open Adobe Reader, go to Preferences > Internet and disable the "Display PDF in browser using:" option, then quit; do the same for Acrobat Pro.

Quit Safari if it's running. Then copy and paste this command into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool false

Press Enter or Return, then quit Terminal.

Restart Safari and try loading a PDF file; it should work perfectly.

Mulder

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Dec 15, 2008 11:32 AM in response to Mulder

Mulder,
Thanks. I had the same problem. Found the question and your response and did it. Worked like a charm, although I'd never used terminal, so it was a little scary. Thanks again

Seems like it happened when I installed Reader 9.0

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rossgard

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Dec 15, 2008 10:38 PM in response to Mulder

Thank you, Muldar. Your solution was exactly what I needed.

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Dec 17, 2008 12:44 PM in response to Mulder

Hi Mulder-

I'm having the same problem (worse, actually, I cannot view pdf at all from web).

But I cannot follow your instructions since the "Display PDF in browser" option is grayed out in my adobe preferences.

I'm beginning to think the real answer is to delete all adobe products <g>

any thoughts?

thanks,

tom

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Dec 17, 2008 12:51 PM in response to Thomas O'Connell

Mulder-

Thanks... your post led me to the right solution. in AR prefs, I just unchecked Internet>allow fast web and >speculative background downloads and now I'm working fine

thanks for leading me there... should have tried that before posting

cheers,

tom

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Dec 18, 2008 6:31 AM in response to Merlin Macuser

Thanks, simply changing the Prefs worked for me. I did not have to go to Terminal to fix this.

thanks so much for your help!

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Mar 2, 2009 7:11 AM in response to Mulder

I had this problem with Safari 4 Beta.
Changing only the Adobe Reader Prefs worked for me.
Thanks,
Don O'Shea

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