Cannot View or automatically download PDFs in Safari 7.0
This is a bizarre problem since the Safari 7.0 update. If I click on a link for a PDF, instead of downloading the PDF and opening Acrobat or Preview, I just get a page of the underlying code.
E.g., clicking on http://images.apple.com/media/us/osx/2013/docs/OSX_Mavericks_Core_Technology_Ove rview.pdf
gives me:
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I get pages of this code.
If I do a "Save As" of this page in Safari, then it saves it as a proper PDF, viewable by any PDF reader. This happens on all PDFs, not just Apple's. I installed Mavericks and Safari 7.0 at the same time, so I don't know when the problem began. This happens on both my iMac and MacBook Air. I changed the default viewer from Acrobat to Preview, but it did not help.
I feel like I've been transported back in time 15 years when this is how files were exchanged...
Any ideas?
Running:
- Safari 7.0
- OS 10.9 Mavericks
on
- iMac i7
- MacBook Air i7
OS X Mavericks (10.9)