Safari 4.0.3 only displays first page of PDF

Greetings,

Since there's been no recent update to Safari, your problem couldn't possibly be and "anti-feature".

So, are you certain you don't have any third party Input Managers or plugins installed for anything at all? If so, one or more of them could be the cause of the problem. Did you recently install any software, and if so, what exactly did you install? Did you try Repair Disk Permissions and then restart Safari to see if the problem can be solved that way?

Have you tried creating a new User account and testing for this problem there? If it's there, then it's a systemwide issue; otherwise it's limited to something specific in your regular user account.

HI Stephen,

Try Safari Maintenance and see if that helps.






Carolyn 🙂

Oh my goodness, I have spent HOURS today trying to get Safari to download more than the first page of a PDF. Aughghgh!

Someone please help...none of the above work. Control-clicking doesn't work. Replacing the com.apple.Safari.plist doesn't work. Opening in a new window, "saving as" to the hard drive, etc. doesn't work.

It works just fine on my iMac at work, but I am not at work…

I would prefer NOT to use Acrobat Reader if I can help it, because I understand it is incredibly slow.

Does ANYONE know how to get Safari to download a multipage PDF? I don't care if it opens in Preview automatically or if I have to open it later, I just need to get the darn file!

Frustrated in Indiana

I just ran into this at work and found the problem.
In short the problem lies in the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

If you're comfortable in terminal you can fix it without having to toss the prefs. If not, just tossing that file and relaunching Safari should fix it.

For those CLI literate you can do the following:

defaults delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari WebKitPDFDisplayMode

That will remove the key that I found to be the cause of the problem in my instance. If that key isn't in the file you'll get feedback to the effect of "The domain/default pair of (com.apple.Safari, WebKitPDFDisplayMode) does not exist" and that won't fix it.

This was driving me crazy, then I found a fix. When you're looking at the single pdf page, crtl-click into the doc and select "continuous." Once you've done that, it should stick that way every time you open a pdf.