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[spnewman]

Help, i am a scientist and rely on PDF downloads from journal sites for my work. Previously (before 10.4) when downloading PDF files from the web they automatically opened in preview, which allowed for easy saving / renaming and resizing the contents to read on screen. Now the PDFs open in safari, where the text of the PDF cannot be enlarged to read on the screen and worse of all from two journal sites i need for work, everytime i go to save the PDF safari quits out and the save fails. I have cheked the preferences of both safari and preview but cannot seem to find anyway of getting the pdfs to open in preview automatically, can anyone help???

 

[ObviousTroll]

That's the fault of teh evil Acrobat 7. It drives me crazy, too.

Try deleting the file /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin.

 

[Matzki]

Selct a PDF and choose File > Get Info from the Finder menu. Select Open with: then set it to Preview and click the change all button. Now all files with .pdf extension will open in Preview. Good luck.

 

[ObviousTroll]

Matzki,

Unfortunately we're both wrong: You're wrong because spnewman wants to download PDFs from the web, not view PDFs he already has.

I was wrong because even after deleting the Adobe plug-in, Safari still opens PDFs in it's own window, it doesn't save them to disk.

Spnewman, the only solution I can find is to right click on the link to the PDF and select "Save As" instead of just left-clicking on it.

 

[Matzki]

Check this out:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@1004.KpBBaDBzUSq.0@.68b81c9e

 

[Matzki]

Previous post didn't look so good. Here's the solution

Quit Safari, load up '/Applications/Utilities/Terminal' and enter the following command to disable Safari's native PDF support:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES

Launch Safari and navigate to its Preferences section. Check the box which allows the automatic opening of 'safe' files. Set the default download location to be your desktop.