Comments on: Can’t view PDF’s in Safari 3.0 or 3.0.4 browser!

By: Happy camper

Happy camper — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:05:40 +0000

Worked for me. Thank you. It is much slower for me to view PDFs in Acrobat and it seems like I have to download them before they can be viewed, which means I end up with my HD overflowing. I have Acrobat Pro 7.1, Safari 3.1.2, and Mac OS 10.4.11. I found extra copies of AdobePDFViewer.plugin which I deleted, but they were all on other HD volumes than my startup volume, so I’m not sure it mattered whether they were deleted. I didn’t try just deleting the copy in my startup volume Library. Does anyone else find it annoying that OS X does not really seem set up to use multiple volumes, but insists on putting lots of important files only in the startup volume?

By: mike

mike — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:27:02 +0000

it worked BEAUTIFULLY. i was so sick and tired of adobe opening up pdf files when preview was so much faster.

By: Sushiball

Sushiball — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:09:41 +0000

oh my gosh! it worked!!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

I tried all the other suggestions before and it hadn’t worked, but your method works perfectly. Thanks so much!
I’m so happy now..

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:47:19 +0000

Thanks…
It didn’t work (I have the same software versions). But gave me an idea. I downloaded Acrobat Reader 8 and followed same steps and the plug-in that gets installed with that worked while the one with Acrob Pro did not.

YEAH Finally can see the pdf files in Safari. Thanks thanks
c

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:09:27 +0000

Hi,

I once got several pdf files that cannot open. But the reason is that they are corrupted. If anyone who has similar problems, you can try a tool called Advanced PDF Repair. I have used it to repair many corrupt PDF files successfully. Its homepage is http://www.datanumen.com/apdfr/ Hope this helps.

Alan

By: David

David — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:40:18 +0000

Brilliant, worked for me as well. Even with 7.09.

By: Shimshak Studios

Shimshak Studios — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:33:32 +0000

Re: Daniel Greene

Good to hear that it worked for you.
As a Graphic Designer I still prefer to use Adobe Acrobat Professional to view, edit, save, etc. my PDF’s in Safari.
I have used the Preview app to view PDF’s in Safari and it does work very well, actually alot FASTER than Acrobat if you ask me.

By: Daniel Greene

Daniel Greene — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:23:40 +0000

I found your helpful page through a Google search. I did find the Adobe PDF Viewer plugin in the Internet Plug-ins folder on my hard drive (not in my user Library, just in the hard drive Library), and I deleted it. I’m delighted to report that not only does it work– it allows me to view PDFs in Safari’s own PDF viewer rather than Adobe’s. It seems Adobe would like to be one’s PDF viewer of choice, but I prefer to stick with Safari’s own and Preview (on the Mac, of course).

By: riding4work

riding4work — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:36:52 +0000

Thanks, it worked.

I also did not find anything in the users file but emptied the trash. Then followed the remaining steps and “repaired” the safari plug in and it works.

Thanks again.

By: Shimshak Studios

Shimshak Studios — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:16:40 +0000

Re: Christian

Have you tried upgrading to Acrobat Reader 8.1.1?
It could be that some of the PDF’s you’re trying to view aren’t compatible with 7.0.9.