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Can't open pdfs in Safari 4

benlee

benlee

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PDFs will not load in Safari 4. I just get the spinning load symbol and nothing happens.

Anyone else have this problem.
 
I have just tried to open an iAntiVirus pdf file in safari and it took around 5 seconds to load and it worked... Maybe you should download Adobe Reader or maybe a special plugin just to read your .pdf . Are you sure in the safari preferences safari is the default browser to open .pdf ? If none of this works i suggest to do the following : On the top right of your safari browser there is a bug !! Click and fill in the requirements and maybe take a screenshot of the turning circle (Cmd+Shift+4) and there send it to apple and maybe they will correct this error !! :apple:
 
I've had the same problem since installing Safari 4.0 on my MacBook. I've scoured all of the preference settings but can't find anything to make it work.

Anyone have any other suggestions?
 
I can't exactly remember what I did to fix the problem. But I do remember it had to do with preferences in a recently installed adobe acrobat. There was a preference that I changed in either acrobat or safari that fixed the problem.
 
I had Adobe reader installed and I couldn't open PDFs in Safari at all. I found this fix though... (credit goes to J@ffa)

Go to Macintosh HD>Library>Internet Plugins and delete AdobePDFViewer.plugin and then quit Safari.

Now Safari 4 will use Preview to open the PDFs.
 
staccato83 said:
I had Adobe reader installed and I couldn't open PDFs in Safari at all. I found this fix though... (credit goes to J@ffa)
Go to Macintosh HD>Library>Internet Plugins and delete AdobePDFViewer.plugin and then quit Safari.
Now Safari 4 will use Preview to open the PDFs.
Click to expand...

If you launch Adobe Reader (9), and check the Internet Preferences, there is a checkbox for "Open PDF in Browser using"... and a popup that shows any usable Adobe Apps installed on that machine.

UNCHECK that, Apply it, quit Safari and relaunch - bang - problem solved!
Safari now uses its internal PDF rendering.
 
dagnome said:
If you launch Adobe Reader (9), and check the Internet Preferences, there is a checkbox for "Open PDF in Browser using"... and a popup that shows any usable Adobe Apps installed on that machine.

UNCHECK that, Apply it, quit Safari and relaunch - bang - problem solved!
Safari now uses its internal PDF rendering.
Click to expand...

Thanks, this solved my problem.
 
Thanks

My wife's Mac had the Adobe plugin and I deleted it from the Internet Plugins folder in the Library and it worked! I just wanted to thank you guys on behalf of my wife for taking the time to post that solution! :D
 
Hello all.

I am having the same problem. I tried deleting the Adobe internet plug-in, and have also tried resetting the Adobe internet settings as described above. I've restarted Safari, even tried restarting the comp, and no luck. I've even uninstalled Adobe Reader at this point and still can't get my pdf-s to open in Safari. I know that this is a problem due to Adobe reader 9 because I had no issue until I recently installed Adobe Reader. Any other ideas??

Edit:
I've also tried reinstalling Safari, but no luck. Seems that the comp remembers all my settings anyway.
 
muffinru said:
Hello all.

I am having the same problem. I tried deleting the Adobe internet plug-in, and have also tried resetting the Adobe internet settings as described above. I've restarted Safari, even tried restarting the comp, and no luck. I've even uninstalled Adobe Reader at this point and still can't get my pdf-s to open in Safari. I know that this is a problem due to Adobe reader 9 because I had no issue until I recently installed Adobe Reader. Any other ideas??

Edit:
I've also tried reinstalling Safari, but no luck. Seems that the comp remembers all my settings anyway.
Click to expand...

I had the same issues. This may be too simple to be true for you, and I can't believe I missed it. I was trying to down load some 'smart pdf' files that were actually tax forms. I downloaded the latest version of Adobe Reader, but when I clicked on the form, I got a message telling me to visit adobe website to get the latest version. I then noticed something at the bottom of the page that has an arrow to the left, and arrow to the right and a camera icon. I clicked on the camera icon and the pdf opened in another window. So relieved now.
 
Not sure if you still need help here, but i solved it by running Safari in 32 bit mode, all good now.
 
Thanks LastZion

I had no "adobepdfviewer" to delete so I took the advice of LastZion, above, and at least got a big icon in the Safari window so I knew I had done something right. I had dicked around with the PDF Browser Plugin "get info" window, changing the "open with" from Default Folder to Safari. After switching that back to Default Folder, which it seems to want, I was fine. Apple is getting counter-intuitiver and counter-intuitiver.
 
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