When I view a PDF in Safari it looks good. When I go to print it either the preview is totally blank or one page that I was viewing at the time previews and the print dialog box shows the additional 8 pages but they are all blank. I'm baffled. If I use Chrome and go from its interface to preview it works perfectly. Thank you for any guidance.
I have the exact same problem. In addition to not being able to print the PDF, I cannot download it. When I try to download, I get only a dialog box stating that Safari cannot export the document. This started yesterday when I tried to download one document, a state tax-form. Today I still cannot download that form, and now I cannot download an entirely different form from another source. And the problem is getting worse. This morning I downloaded one document (an IRS tax form) successfully. An hour later I had to download that document again, and this time Safari would not let me.
Firefox does not work either. Only Chrome--so far--is working.
I emptied Safari's cache, but that did not change anything.
Yes Chrome dose seem to work. It seem like it take an extra click when Safari was woking it was wonderful. Hoping someone will be able to help. I'm sad for you but glad to know it is not just me
Quit Safari.
Open the Library folder in your home folder as follows:
☞ If running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar.
☞ If running an older version of Mac OS X, select Go ▹ Go to Folder… from the Finder menu bar and enter “~/Library” (without the quotes) in the text box that opens.
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.
Sorry to say that did not seem to help.
Hi...
Try this..
Go to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins
Move the Adobe PDF Browser plugin (or just PDF browser plugin) to the Trash.
Quit then relaunch Safari to test.
Quit Safari. In the Finder, select Go ▹ Go to Folder... from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-G. Copy the line of text below into the box that opens, and press return:
/Library/Internet Plug-ins
From the folder that opens, remove any items that have the letters “PDF” in the name. You may be prompted for your login password. Then launch Safari and test.
If you still have the issue, repeat with this line:
~/Library/Internet Plug-ins
If you don’t like the results of this procedure, restore the items from the backup you made before you started. Relaunch Safari again.
My thanks to both you and Linc. This was just driving me nuts.
Craig
I had the same problem. It started a week or so ago.
Following your advice, I went into HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins and then trashed the newest Adobe viewer plug in (from 4/10/12. There were two). It was called:
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
Anyway it worked after restarting Safari. Thanks.
Yes it did work for me also. I some how did not complete the notafaction process.
My thanks to all who helped.
I was having this problem then I discoveres if I hovered my mouse over the bottom of the page a translucent black toolbar arrived with a print icon on it. This worked
This worked for me, too. Twice now. Somehow the plugin got re-installed. Both times, was able to print PDF after I deleted the AdobePDGViewerNPAPI.plugin.
Worked like a charm in OS 10.6.8. A big "thank you".
Best advice on the page - thanks! No mucking about deleting plugins etc.
Carolyn & Linc,
Taking out the pdf plug-in worked for me too. Thanks Linc for the detail on how to get to the Library. That helped a lot. Question is though how do we avoid installing the pdf plug-in?
Thanks for posting the problem and to those posting the solution. I trashed AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin and AdobePDFViewer.plugin from the Internet Plug-ins folder and am now able to save and print PDFs in Safari. I lost the capability in the process of transferring files to a new Mac. Didn't lose it with Firefox, though.
Problem with printing PDFs from Safari.
