Since updating Safari - i've got PDF problems

Same issue here, any luck in a fix ?

Same issue for me too...I just upgraded to Safari 7.0 (OS10.9) and now all PDF links are shown as raw postscript. (I have removed the Adobe internet plugins too)

I spoke with apple support (they are the best).

Do this:

1. Uninstall Adobe Reader

2. Quit Safari / Reset Safari

3. Reinstall Adobe Reader

4. MOST IMPORTANT: Open Adobe Reader app and click on Agree (to terms).

5. Open Safari

You should be able to see and read the PDF's in Safari with Adobe now.

wait... so, with Safari 6.1 you have to have Adobe Reader installed in order to view PDFs? really?

No, you could get an inline view in Safari, or external viewers to work (Adobe Reader, Apple Preview etc)

Right. And "inline view" seemed to work fine *without* having Adobe Reader installed until I installed Safari 6.1 and OS X 10.8.5. Prior to that I was on 10.8.2 but I'm not sure exactly what Safari I was running.

wacky.

I have this same issue. I MUST open these files with Preview but the command line command I had before doesn't work any longer, I get the page of ASCII characters.

Before I used the following line:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES

If I run this, I get the jibberish, but if I put NO or FALSE on the end, I get it to open in the browser, but for my margins and such to work correctly on our in house software, I must have it open in preview.

Thanks

Thanks, Stark!

It didn't even occur to me to replace the YES with NO. I've done that now, and all is back to normal. Well, at least being able to SEE the PDF instead of a raw file. I STILL have to remember to right-click a PDF link if I want to download it, but at least I don't get epilepsy any more due to the raw file hurting my eyes...

Can anyone help with this. I'm not very literate with command lines etc and I don't understand the last few posts. Bottom line is: I've uninstalled and reinstalled adobe reader, and the situation has improved in that instead of getting gibberish when I try to download a pdf I am getting some sort of inline version of the file in a safari window -- here is an example:

-- but there is no downloaded pdf file anywhere. What I want is just a pdf file as before.

Can anyone help with this?

Hi Tomdbl,

If you right-click on the PDF link, you should get the option to downlaod the PDF to your computer. Also, when you (now) see the inline version, are there are few buttons at the botton of that screen? One (on the right of all the buttons) should be a download button. But right-clickiong on the link should always enable the download for you.

Hi tFromAZ,

thanks for this. I actually did try right clicking the pdf download icon but didn't get the option of downloading the document - just a whole lot of options for saving the icon image!

When I clicked the pdf icon on the right side of the bottom bar, I just got the document in a new window in safari, but not a pdf document. However, when I clicked the save icon on the left side of the bar, I got the option of saving the document as a pdf. So problem solved temporarily bit it's a pretty clunky solution. It would be good to just get a pdf file downloaded when you hit the download icon.

cheers

Tom

Once you've managed to get a PDF to display in Safari, you can simply do File > Save As... and get a PDF on your desktop (or wherever you prefer).

Same problem after updating M.Lion/Safari. I had previously been enjoying having pdfs download unobtrusively for viewing later. Had no Adobe products installed, but now had gibberish.
The above command line (THANKS!) with FALSE restored viewing in Safari (which I despise nearly as much as the gibberish). Thankfully, Control-click Save File now works again.

Has anyone discovered how to get back to pdf's just downloading and not displaying in the browser?

I can right click and download, but not all pdf links are setup like that some are redirected downloads, so for those I I have to use Firefox or Chrome.

How do we get no gibberish, and straight download of pdf links?