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I am using Lion ans Safari 5.1.2
Accessing a pdf file briefly flashes the Quicktime symbol then opens the first page of the pdf file. Other pages are not accessible or viewable.
Select Help > Installed Plug-ins from the Safari menu bar. Besides the following, what plugins are listed?
iPhotoPhotocast
Java Applet Plug-in
QuickTime Plug-in
Shockwave Flash
WebKit built-in PDF
Coupons Inc., Coupon Printing FireFox Plugin
DivX VOD Helper Plug-in
DivX Web Player
Flip4Mac Windows Media Plugin 2.3.6
Garmin Communicator Plug-in Version 2.6.4.0
Google Earth Plug-in
MoveNetworks Quantum Media Player
Musicnotes
PhotoCenterPlugin1.1.2.0
Silverlight Plug-In
Quit Safari.
Open the Library folder in your home folder by selecting Go > Library from the Finder menu bar (Lion), or by looking in the folder with the house icon in the sidebar of a Finder window (pre-Lion.)
Delete the following items from the Library folder:
Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Preferences/com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist
Preferences/QuickTime Preferences
Relaunch Safari and test.
Brilliant! Thanks!
I do not have any of these files or the QuickTime Preferences in my LIbrary.
Linc,
Thanks for your help. These deletions didn't work for me -- any other ideas? The plug-ins I have, in addition to what you listed, are:
Adobe Acrobat NPAPI
Flip4Mac
MSOffice Live
PhotoCenter
Picasa
Sharepoint
Silverlight
I could see PDFs in Safari until a few days ago. All I can think of is: latest security update, and I started publishing in iMovie, which uses QT stuff. rgds
OK, solved it myself. I noticed that the Acrobat NPAPI plug-in had a fairly recent date. Deleted it, restarted Safari, and now it behaves as before.
I, too, recently updated Safari or upgraded Adobe (it was definitely one or the other), and suddenly was unable to render PDF's... flummoxed and beside myself with frustration, I fortunately came across your reply, followed your steps exactly as outlined below and VOILA!! It worked and I will never update another "fix" in Safari until Apple fixes this nuisance on future releases. Thank you Linc Davis!!
Quit Safari.
Open the Library folder in your home folder by selecting Go > Library from the Finder menu bar (Lion), or by looking in the folder with the house icon in the sidebar of a Finder window (pre-Lion.)
Delete the following items from the Library folder:
Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Preferences/com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist
Preferences/QuickTime Preferences
Relaunch Safari and test.
viewing pdf files in safari 5.1.2
