Floyd Bloom

Q: Open PC PDFs on Mac

I am trying to help my wife ( still in Mavericks OS) review PDFs from a Windows web site.  On my Mac if I select a PDF while holding down the Control key, I get a "Open with" ooption.  But on this Windows web site ddoing that does not give me that option.  I want ( actually she wants) to open the files in PDF Pro or Acribat Reader to copy and paste excerpts from the PDF into a text form.  How do I do that?

Posted on Jan 18, 2016 3:47 PM

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  • by Niel,Helpful

    Niel Niel Jan 18, 2016 4:01 PM in response to Floyd Bloom
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    Mac OS X
    Jan 18, 2016 4:01 PM in response to Floyd Bloom

    Download them to your computer and then select them.

     

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  • by Floyd Bloom,

    Floyd Bloom Floyd Bloom Jan 18, 2016 4:04 PM in response to Niel
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    Jan 18, 2016 4:04 PM in response to Niel

    Thanks Niel, but downloading is not an option offered-- I suppose I coukd try to do a "Save As" to my desktop ,but she has a lot of these files to process and I was hopeful there would be some way to invoke the "Opn with" option.

  • by VikingOSX,

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Jan 18, 2016 7:52 PM in response to Floyd Bloom
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    Jan 18, 2016 7:52 PM in response to Floyd Bloom

    In Safari menu : View : Show Status Bar. This will be the absolute bottom of your Safari browser. When you pass your mouse over what you think will be a link to a PDF, the status bar will show the PDF filename at the end of the link. Only if it does, you have two choices:

    1. Go ahead and click the link. It will be opened by the PDF viewer plug-in that is enabled by default in Safari, or the Adobe Acrobat PDF plug-in if you installed Reader or Acrobat Pro. You can then click the disk icon in the Adobe PDF viewer and save the document to your Desktop. Occasionally, the PDF file may download directly to your Downloads folder too.
    2. Control-click the PDF document link and observe the contextual menu options (click to enlarge)
      Screen Shot 2016-01-18 at 10.46.33 PM.jpg

    There is no ability to click on a web-based link and have it open directly in Preview, Acrobat Pro, or Acrobat Reader on the Mac because Safari does not use Helper applications.