I can't save pdf from Safari

Thank you. This worked. I am so frustrated with how adobe works on my apple computer! Hopefully the future will be better with this fix.

This fix worked for me a long time ago. (Thanks again.) At some point along the way, with 10.8 updates and Adobe updates, when I go to save a pdf in Safari, I cannot paste in a file name I want to use into the save dialog box. In most cases, if I try to type in a different name anbd save, the result is a saved pdf that's viewed by Acrobat as a corrupt file and won't open (this isn't 100% the case, it's confusing). So, I end up saving the pdf as whatever name the file is, opening that file in Acrobat, and using the Save As command, at which point i *can* paste in whatever I want for the filename. But then I have to delete the original file, which is a PITA. It's been so long, I can't remember if this was the original problem that was fixed by deleting the suggested files. (which, again, did work as everyone replies.)

Thanks for this. I've been fighting this crazy PDF behavior for several months now. This fixed it. What I don't understand is why that file didn't show up in the folder inside Library but when I did a find it said it was there. I deleted from find and now I'm back to normal behavior until the next Adobe upgrade. Figured out the location problem. It's in Macintosh HD/Library not UserHD/Library.

I'm still having problems downloading or saving any PDFs from Safari - I have removed the plug-in you suggest, now I can't even view online, let alone print or save!

Thanks Dansyacht - following your instructions, it took me no time at all to get Adobe to work in Firefox again - after days of frustration!! I'm very grateful, thanks

I just did this today with the latest upgrades and it still works. Thanks for the tip.

The problem with downloading PDFs from Safari seems to me to be a Safari problem, not an Adobe problem, since I use Mountain Lion's Preview as my default PDF viewer and I have had the same problem.

Safari's "Save As" action in the File menu doesn't work, and results in the saving of a 1k stub of a file with the target filename. I find that I can save successfully using any of the following methods:

(1) Control-click (or whatever you have configured to perform this function on your mouse or trackpad) on the link to the PDF. Choose "Save linked file as ... "

(2) Click on the link to the PDF. When the file is displayed, you should see an icon bar across the bottom of it. Click on the disk icon and save. This icon bar, however, disappears after a few seconds and it may not always reappear when you hover the cursor over the PDF. The simplest way is:

(3) With the PDF displayed on the screen, hit ⇧⌘S and save.

It shakes my confidence in Apple that they should have a menu item to perform so simple a function and not be able to make it work.

Did u read applenovice's answer on preceeding page? That is where the problem is. Since fixing it, I don't update the Adobe anymore.

Thanks so much - this worked for me after days of frustration!

Thank you! It works! It was hard to find and understand the reason.

I'm also grateful to you, sacmacguy! I recently switched from Chrome to Safari as my primary browser, but had to switch back to Chrome to download pdfs. Now I don't have to any more!🙂

Almost two years later and STILL HELPFUL! Been struggling with this for about that length of time. Thank you, sacmacguy!

My 'translusent icons have been there all morning, and I have been saving PDF documents for a project, and now that capability is gone, and that includes previous pdf's I'd already worked on. How can that ability to save disappear? Did I hit some setting that 'hides' it?

Kim

Now, two years later with OS X 10.2.9 and Safari 7.0.3, this same problem persists! The procedure of sacmacguy was the solution for me:

In Finder Go to: Macintosh HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins and look for "AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin" and move it to Disabled Plug-ins Folder (if you want to keep it). You will have to remove this file from the Internet Plug-Ins folder altogether. (I put mine in the trash)

though I note that no "Disabled Plug-ins Folder" existed in the Library folder (I created one on my desktop and moved the "AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin" into it--just in case). After restarting Safari, the pdf file was still able to display in Safari, but now Safari's menu "Save As" function actually worked to download the complete file. Moreover, the cryptic "download" icon that displays if I hover my mouse over the lower center of the display also works to download the pdf file (with its original filename).

Obviously the problem still exist and Apple hasn't done much to fix it. Thanks for everyone's tips. I guess as long as you save the file thru the icon at the bottom of the page instead of clicking "File" the pdf file would save properly.

Cheers!