Acrobat and Safari

Question

Is there any way to force Safari to open a pdf file outside of the browser. Every time I click on a huge pdf file, it tries to open it in a new browser tab or window, and safari locks up. I want it in Reader or Professional, so that I can edit it if I want. I've tried everything, but I'm not finding it.

Answer 1

I was just wondering, in general, how to go about configuring which application is used by Safari to handle a particular MIME type. I think is interesting that there is a (Safari : "Help" -> "Installed Plug-ins") which gives a read-only listing of which plug-ins are handling which MIME types but no obvious (at least not to me) way to modify these mappings. I wasn't able to convince (Finder : "Help" -> "Mac Help") to give me any useful information. Google eventually got me here. Now I know about both "~/Library/Internet Plug-ins" and "/Library/Internet Plug-ins" and that this is somehow involved in Safari's decision as to which application to use to handle which MIME type(s). However, I have no idea as to how to associate a particular plug-in with a particular MIME type, either for Safari or any other application, or even if any other applications makes use of these folders. Double clicking on "/Library/Internet Plug-ins/PDF Browser Plugin" itself only gave me a message that these was no "default application specified to open the document". I'm guessing that there is some property list somewhere which is being used to associate MIME types with applications (or plug-ins) but I'm not Mac savy enough to know where to look. Can somebody point me to some documentation about this so that I can RTFM?
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.6)