I am getting a Safari PDF viewer I have neve seen before. It shows the document as a very small image, does not have a print or save to disk icon, and has an icon that reads "Open PDF in Viewer." Is this something new or can I get the Preview viewer I am used to seeing back? I have deleted Adobe Reader and all it's PDF viewer plug-ins. I am using Mountain Lion.
Thanks,
Jacob
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Back up all data.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, the copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
/Library/Internet Plug-ins
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-G. Paste into the text box that opens (command-V), then press return.
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 quit and relaunch Safari, and test.
The "Silverlight" web plugin distributed by Microsoft can also interfere with PDF display in Safari, so you may need to remove it as well, if it's present.
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.
Thanks but this didn't work. I ran Disk Doctor and re-installed Safari and still no luck. Problem persists.
Thanks again,
Jacob
From the Safari menu bar, select
Help ▹ Installed Plug-ins
Besides the following, what plugins are listed?
Flip4Mac Windows Media Plugin
Microsoft Office Live Plug-in
PhotoCenterPlugin1.1.2.2
RealPlayer Plugin.plugin
SharePoint Browser Plug-in
Silverlight Plug-In
Please remove the Silverlight plugin, as suggested above, and relaunch Safari. If there's no change, restore it from a backup.
Still the same.
Are you having this problem with all sites, or only one? If only one, please post a link, if possible. If all, test with this page:
All PDF's, including on this page. I have attached screenshots of what I get. The page that comes up and the menu bar at the bottom with four icons; increase and decrease size, open PDF in Preview, and save PDF to Downloads Folder. It apparently is not opening in Preview but can be if the Open PDF In Preview icon is used.
When you click the magnifying-glass icon with the plus sign to zoom in, do the pages get bigger?
Yes. Bigger and smaller both work.
So the problem is the default view settings. Try the solution suggested in this thread:
Cannot view PDFs with Safari's native...: Apple Support Communities
Tried them all, no difference except for two things. 1) Somewhere along the line the viewer started showing the standard one page view but still the "other" viewer and 2( there is no safari.plist, safari is not creating one. This is new.
from the contextual menu. An Info dialog should open.
BTW, I keep forgetting there are two libraries; root and user. The plist was in user. You probably knew that.
Yes, I have read and write permissions.
Locked is not checked.
Created and mdified today.
Did you move that file to the Desktop and test?
Getting a New Safari PDF Viewer
