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Safari- pdf problem

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
April 11, 2012
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Hi- as of 4-10-12, i updated adobe reader for mac- all pdf's displayed in safari are adobe, and it is quite problematic- now cannot save from safari, and the save from adobe is a problem, as i cannot copy titles into the save window, and now have to handtype complex titles, often in foreign languages- how do i revert back, or, how to completely uninstall adobe

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Rondakrik

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A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM:

When I came across the same problem today, I found this forum (and a couple of others that I'll post to). Nothing worked, and then I noticed a little window that opened at the bottom of the document as I was viewing it in Safari. It includes a printer icon, so I clicked it and tried to find a way to do the usual, clumsy Print--->Save routine. Didn't work, but I got an error message telling me to "Save" the document.

The window at the bottom of the document also includes the standard floppy disk symbol for saving, so I clicked it and Voila! After all these years, it's suddenly very easy to save PDFs! No digging through the Library and full functionality! Thank you, Adobe. It's about damn time.

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rosnerda

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I don't know if I understand correctly or if you guys have the same issue I have, but I would appreciate some help.

I can read PDF's without any problem in Safari 6.0.1. My issue is if I want to print directly from Safari and NOT from the small grey overlay appearing "save,print, zoom etc" grey buttons which appear when hovering over lower screen when on a PDF file. If I print from those grey buttons I get this window with little preview showing on the right-hand side above the "print" button:

Now to my issue: If I want to print from the default print button in Safari, the preview window, as you can see on next screenshot, stays blank and when I print it also prints a blank document!

Any idea what I couls do about this? The fact is that my accounting program always automatically pops up the Safari print preview you see above for printing invoices and I always have to cancel the print and click on teh icons at the bottom of the page!

All feedback welcome!!

Thanks in advance

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Shoepepper

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Same problem – simple fix!

I had the same problem here of no longer being able to > File > Save As > PDF

I discovered by chance that if you simply hoover with the mouse towards the bottom of the PDF window a simple tool bar appears. Select the left-hand 'disk' icon and save this way. It's probably a slightly quicker than the traditional method. I could save the PDF to my desktop without any problem.

Suggest trying this before re-installing Acrobat.

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Long__-__John

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I've seen the same problem using Safari 5.1.5 and OS X 10.7.3 after updating to Reader 10.1.3. I deleted the file

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin and the problem is now gone. Not only that, but PDF files are displayed much faster with the WebKit built-in PDF plug-in!

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md_cactusAuthor

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Yes, but the problem i had with the new version of adobe x is they don't

deposit a plug in in the library, so there is nothing to delete

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LeighO1972

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Yay! It works. I was indeed looking in the wrong place for those plugin files. It's under Macintosh HD > Library > Internet plug-ins (not Users > my name > Library > Internet plug-ins). I deleted the two files and then reinstalled Reader 10.1.3. I also changed Firefox to open in 32-bit, and both Safari and Firefox are working now. Thanks hit.anand and the rest of you.

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hit.anand

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Hi,

Can you please share the following details:

- What is the version of Acrobat /Reader you are using?

- Which operating system are you working on?

- What is the version of Safari?

Thanks,

hit.anand

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md_cactusAuthor

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Hi, in response to your questions:

OX is 10.6.8

- Safari is 5.1.5

-Adobe is X-10.3.1 (recently upgraded)

-This problem just started, and the problem i have with it is slow uploads, and embedded pdf files in Safari cannot be saved or printed from safari (I do not like printer options from Adobe at all) and i cannot cut and paste from pdf files in safari, which i need to do to save titles of manuscripts, for using quotes, and for google translate.

As of last night i get black screens for pdfs uplaoded in safari- and pdf's that were observable now have "No-plug in" on screen (this seems to be an old problem that just recently hit me)

- i checked in Library-Internet plug in folder and there is nothing there.

I have wanted to go back to Preview as a default, but have not figured out how.

-This recent change did solve one minor porblem i had with a site i downloaded reports from- 2 or so months ago the reports changed from pdfs to webarchives, so i had to use Firefox to download as pdf's- now safari downloads them as pdf's (until last night) and now firefox does not download pdf's.

these are the kind of porblems why i shifted from windows to mac years agao, and now may go back!!!

thanks

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hit.anand

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Hi,

Try running Safari in 64bit mode (via Finder -> Applications -> right-click Safari -> Get Info -> check Open in 64-bit mode).

If it still doesn't work then I am suspecting that your PDFViewer.plugin is corrupt. Can you please try reinstalling Reader and see if it works for you.

However, before reinstalling please delete the below mentioned files from the following location “/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/”

AdobePDFViewer.plugin

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin

Once you have deleted the above files please download and reinstall Reader 10.1.3 from here

regards,

hit.anand

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