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Harpo Marx Author

Level 1

10 points

View PDF files with Safari

After I updated to Adobe Acrobat Reader, Build: 10.1.3.23

the following changes occured in Safari: the Preview toolbar at the bottom-center of the page has been replaced by a similar looking Acrobat Reader toolbar.

Nastily in Acrobat Reader preferences / Internet / Display PDF in browser using: Applications/Adobe Reader.app is greyed out! I can't untick it.

Responsible might be this installed Plug-in (in Safari)?: Adobe Acrobat NPAPI Plug-in, Version 10.1.3

Adobe Acrobat NPAPI Plug-in, Version 10.1.3

Adobe® Acrobat® Plug-in for Web Browsers, Version 10.1.3 — from file “AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin”.

application/pdf	Acrobat Portable Document Format	pdf
application/vnd.adobe.pdf	Acrobat Portable Document Format (Interim)	pdf
application/vnd.adobe.pdfxml	Acrobat XML Portable Document Format	pdfxml
application/vnd.adobe.x-mars	Acrobat XML Portable Document Format (Interim)	mars
application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml	XML Data Package	xdp
application/vnd.adobe.xfd+xml	FormFlow99 Data File	xfd
application/vnd.adobe.xfdf	Acrobat Forms Data Format in XML	xfdf
application/vnd.fdf	Acrobat Forms Data Format	fdf

How can I uninstall Safari Plug-Ins?

How can I get back to viewing PDFs in Safari with Preview? (In Finder pdf documents are still set to be opened with Preview.)

Thank you.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Apr 13, 2012 3:09 PM

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Carolyn Samit

Level 10

165,673 points

Posted on Apr 13, 2012 3:15 PM

Hi...

Possibly, yes.

Go to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins

If you see the Adobe PDF browser plugin in the Internet Plug-Ins folder, move it to the Trash.

Quit then relaunch Safari ...

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Axtremus

Level 1

0 points

Feb 22, 2013 7:49 AM in response to Harpo Marx

Hello, of the two PDF reader plug-ins, I prefer to keep one and remove the other as follows:

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin <== I REMOVE this one

AdobePDFViewer.plugin <== I KEEP this one

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin (the one I remove) is the one that comes with Adobe Acrobat Reader. I remove it because it does not seem capable of supporting the new Retina displays. When displaying text, it shows all sorts of ugly edges and alising artifacts.

AdobePDFViewer.plugin (the one I keep) is the one supplied by Apple, Inc. This one handles the Retina displays just fine. Texts are displayed crisply and beatifully. Also, it seems more "light-weight" than Adobe's plug-in.

There are certain things that Adobe Acrobat Reader's plug-in can do that Apple, Inc's plug-in cannot ... but I find that if I ever need to do any of those things, I would invariably much prefer to do them in the actual Preview application or Adobe Acrobat Reader application instead of trying to make-do inside a web browser. So I just do not have a reason to keep Adobe's AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin around. I wish Adobe would stop making their plug-in the overiding/default whenever Adobe Acrobat Reader is updated ... it's just very annoying that I have to manually remove its plugin after every update.

M_Droz

Level 1

0 points

Apr 1, 2013 6:09 PM in response to Axtremus

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin (the one I remove) is the one that comes with Adobe Acrobat Reader. I remove it because it does not seem capable of supporting the new Retina displays. When displaying text, it shows all sorts of ugly edges and alising artifacts.

AdobePDFViewer.plugin (the one I keep) is the one supplied by Apple, Inc. This one handles the Retina displays just fine. Texts are displayed crisply and beatifully. Also, it seems more "light-weight" than Adobe's plug-in.

How do you know that the AdobePDFViewer.plugin is supplied by Apple? When I get the info on the plugin it supplies the copyright info as "Adobe® Acrobat® 11.0.02, ©1984-2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved." I would assume that the Preview PDF viewer, would have copyright info matching Apple's.

Also, after deleting both plugins, safari displays PDFs with Preview... Can you back up your claim about AdobePDFViewer.plugin?

Sep 4, 2013 2:32 AM in response to Harpo Marx

Hi,i've used to create a pdf document viewer to view pdf.But i gave up it since yesterday.Then i install a safari,and imeet the same question.It would be nice to view pdf by safari .

Sep 4, 2013 7:18 AM in response to Harpo Marx

I prefer to download pdf files and open with Preview. It's too slow opening them in Safari.

Sep 4, 2013 5:46 PM in response to Harpo Marx

I tried everything and the only solution that worked for me was deleting the two Adobe plug in files. You can still chose to open them in Adobe Reader (by clicking the bar at the bottom of the page) for functionality.

mmaure

Level 1

0 points

Jul 15, 2014 11:00 AM in response to Harpo Marx

Thanks to Carolyn for the solution😍 😀

View PDF files with Safari