opening pdf on safari

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opening pdf on safari

Hi

on one particular website site, to view a PDF, it won't open automatically to view but rather i have to download and save first.

any way around this. i just need to view not save.

thanks

Posted on Sep 10, 2019 7:38 AM

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Nenniekirkland Author

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Sep 10, 2019 9:51 AM in response to Eric Root

spoke to apple support, turns out its an issue with Safari and the website. If you hover your cursor of the pdf link a small VIEW PDF option opens up but impossible to drag your cursor into this option as it disappears before you can venter your cursor. they could not answer if same issue when using Firefox. I need to retrieve documents asap so i am simply going to download, save and then view. if ever i have free time ill try to try different options, but for the moment time is the issue. thanks for replying back

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Eric Root

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Sep 10, 2019 9:40 AM in response to Nenniekirkland

It may be a web site limitation.

Are you running any anti - virus programs? Using a VPN?

Try setting up another admin user account in System Preferences/Users & Groups to see if the same problem continues. Please post back on whether or not this worked. Also try the Safe Mode. Please post back on whether or not this worked.

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