Cannot save or print pdf from safari in Snow Leopard
Just recently have been unable to save or print PDF documents from two different websites using either Safari or FireFox on Snow Leopard (10.6). The same websites can be accessed, saved or printed on a different computer using Safari and Lion (10.7). Looking for help.
Found a previous post that suggested doing a Right Click on the PDF form in the Safari Window and then printing from the pop-up menu. This does work. Also, on one of the PDF forms there was a pop-up menu at the bottom of the form that appears only when you move the mouse pointer to the bottom of the form. From this memu I could either save or print. But, just using the Safari File>Print command did not work.
Although both of the alternate techniques work, it is still a mystery why this behavior should suddenly appear.
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Now, when I try to print a pdf from Safari, the print window shows nothing to print, and subsequently, nothing prints. Does anyone know what's happening? It worked fine for years.
Hi
Don't rely on an HP updater to work. They don't quite understand a Mac mentality.
You can find the latest HP driver for your printer here.
Yes, a faulty printer driver will affect Safari's printing.
After you install the driver, "repair permissions" using Disk Utility found in your Finder's Applications>Utilities folder. -
Problems in creating PDFs from Indesign under Snow Leopard
The Acrobat PDF Printer does not work under Snow Leopard anymore.
Adobe gives this alternative:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/509/cpsid_50981.html
After an update to Acrobat 9.1.3 PDFs should now be generated through a new "Save as Adobe PDF" option under the "PDF" button in the system print dialog.
This does not at all work in Adobe Indesign with it's proprietary print dialog. The PDF-Button is only available in the system print dialog (I know it is accessible from within the Indesign print dialog panel, yet clicking on the PDF button and selecting "Save as Adobe PDF" is ignored).
To make things worse: If you follow the advice to delete the Acrobat Printer from the "Print & Fax" panel this deletes the ADPDF9.PPD from the Library/PPD folder! You even cannot produce .ps files and distill them manually. Fortunately I was able to restore the ADPDF9.PPD from a backup.
This is really annoying: How can Adobe state everything works fine under Snow Leopard if you are not able to create PDFs any more? Or did I miss something?Hi.
make this.
1. Go to the Apple> System Preferences...
2. Open the "Print & Fax" preference panel.
3. Select the Printing tab, to get to the printers list.
4. Select the printer "Adobe PDF 9.0".
5. Click the options and supplies button.
6. Choose the Drive.
Now I have reinstalled Leopard. but first like a Drive I have listed only a "Generic Printer".
I tried to reassign it ADPDF9.PPD but is not recognized and automatically resets to a generic printer.
So after some tests that I have found here
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/509/cpsid_50981.html
I have reinstall leopard
This has been my problem.
mario -
Ive been having this issue forever
When I need to print a PDF file, I cannot do so from Safari. It just comes up blank pages.
If I go to another browser like Chrome, I have no problems.
Anyone know why or what I can do?
It seems Safari causes so many problems in addition to this one that I seem to have to use other browsers more and moreAlso, the little printing window that usually pops up on the dock when you print something and then quits itself after printing doesn't quit itself anymore. I have to actually select it and quit it myself. It's very annoying.
Try this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5650720#5650720
Hope this helps. -
HT4550 Download or Print PDFs from Safari
I cannot get Safari to download pdfs or print them from the screen. If I try to download it tells me file cannot be saved. If I try to print, the pages are blank. Any suggestions?
iMac 27"Hello:
It has been awhile - hopefully my memory is OK.
Highlight any existing PDF file on your computer (don't open it). Then go to the file menu. Open with should give you the available choices. As I recall, this sets the option globally.
Barry -
Cannot save file as pdf from adobe form central
I cannot longer save file as pdf or excel once it downloads from adobe form central, can someone please help me as I have a whole hosts of applications waiting to be downloaded
Could you please one or more of your forms with me so I can try this as well? Add [email protected] as a Co-author.
-Jeff Canepa
Jeff Canepa
Software Quality Engineer
Adobe Systems, Inc.
[email protected] -
Having trouble printing pdf from Safari
I'm new to Mac, so I'm hoping there is just some secret place I don't know about to adjust these settings.
Here's the issue: I am trying to print a pdf certificate (full page with a thin border on it) from Safari. When printed, the page is offset to the right and down, like there is some sort of default page margins set up in the browser.
What I've tried: There is no "page setup" option in the "file" menu. In the print menus (the ones that appear when you click the arrow next to the printer dialogue box), I have tried selecting a borderless paper, printing borderless pages (with the sliding bar at both ends of the spectrum), changing the orientation, changing the zoom, and creating a custom paper with custom margins.
No matter what I do, the page still prints out with a sizable margin on the top and left, the certificate border is right at the edge of the page on the right, and off the page on the bottom. This also happens when I print the page from Safari to a pdf, so it's not the printer.
Any suggestions?Hi
Don't rely on an HP updater to work. They don't quite understand a Mac mentality.
You can find the latest HP driver for your printer here.
Yes, a faulty printer driver will affect Safari's printing.
After you install the driver, "repair permissions" using Disk Utility found in your Finder's Applications>Utilities folder. -
When I try to print a pdf downloaded by safari I only get a blank, black page, if I print via safari itself, and an error that no pages are selected (when thy are) if I try to print via adobe reader, I'm running OSX 10.9.2 and Safari 7.0.3
To view PDF in Preview, you have to remove Adobe Reader.
Remove Adobe plug ins if any.
Macintosh HD > Library > Internet Plug-ins
Look for these two files.
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
Right click it and then select Move to Trash”. -
Unable to save or print .pdf using Safari 7.02. and Reader 11.0.6. (reinstalled reader) files ("save
Using Mac 10.9.2 and Reader 11.0.6 and Safari 7.0.2, problem seems to be linked to Safari
Files - using "save as" (.pdf) or "print as" (.pdf) appear as adobe single-page blank documents. When attempting to open them the following error message appears: "Adobe Reader could not open "filename.pdf" because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).
Files created under previous versions of Reader are fine. No problem converting an existing .doc to .pdf using Reader 11.0.6
Any suggestions?Hi ramsey32 ,
Thank You for posting in the forums. Kindly help with the information listed below for further assistance.
1) Does the PDF open fine in safari
2) Do you get a floating toolbar at the bottom, if yes, choose the save icon from there to save the PDF
3) Do the files open fine with Preview?
Thanks,
Vikrantt Singh -
Cannot save an MP3 file from a webpage after Leopard upgrade
Hello,
I am a graduate student and my instructor posts his lectures online as mp3 files. When I was using Tiger and Safari, I was able to right click the file and save it to my computer. Now, after I upgraded to Leopard, I right click and attempt to save and I get an error message of "no permissions to read file." If I click on the file, quicktime will play the mP3 in the safari browser but I want to save the file to my computer so I can listen to it through iTunes.
I am able to currently work around this by using Firefox as it allows me to save the file with no problem but I want to use Safari.
Any ideas?
BTW - Safari is 3.0.4 (Leopard)
Thanks!It won't work if you drag it, but you can copy it from the Activity window, and then paste it into the downloads window. But it may get stuck that way too. The only way I know of is to open the MP3 in Safari, let it load, and then click on File and save it. And I'm using the latest Safari.
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When I save as a pdf from Safari, I get a file that "Acrobat could not open because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).
Back up all data before making any changes. Please take each of the following steps until the problem is resolved.
Step 1
If Adobe Reader or Acrobat is installed, and the problem is just that you can't print PDF's displayed in Safari, you may be able to print by moving the cursor to the the bottom edge of the page, somewhere near the middle. A black toolbar may appear under the cursor. Click the printer icon.
Step 2
There should be a setting in its preferences of the Adobe application such as Display PDF in Browser. I don't use those applications myself, so I can't be more precise. Deselect that setting, if it's selected.
Step 3
If you get a message such as ""Adobe Reader blocked for this website," then from the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Security
and check the box marked
Allow Plug-ins
Then click
Manage Website Settings...
and make any required changes to the security settings for the Adobe PDF plugin.
Step 4
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it, the copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
/Library/Internet Plug-ins
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-G. Paste into the text box that opens (command-V), then press return.
From the folder that opens, move to the Trash any items that have "Adobe" or “PDF” in the name. You may be prompted for your login password. Then quit and relaunch Safari.
Step 5
The "Silverlight" web plugin distributed by Microsoft can interfere with PDF display in Safari, so you may need to remove it, if it's present. The same goes for a plugin called "iGetter," and perhaps others — I don't have a complete list. Don't remove Silverlight if you use the "Netflix" video-streaming service.
Step 6
Do as in Step 4 with this line:
~/Library/Internet Plug-ins
If you don’t like the results of this procedure, restore the items from the backup you made before you started. Relaunch Safari. -
Hi I'm using the latest version of acrobat pro on a Mac i cannot save or print anything as a pdf from the internet i just get a black screen, my previous version worked fine, any ideas please
You can read this article to see if it helps:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problems_printing_web_pages -
I had Cs2 and Office for Mac 2004 installed on an OS 10.6.3 system. Worked fine. This weekend my computer did an auto update to OS 10.6.8 and now I cannot save or print from any office or CS2 Apps. What happened. Office also freezes and I have to force quit. Any advise. System or Software problem?
Bad timing. Reapply the security update:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1489
What happened is that version 1.0 of the security update was available for a bit of time this weekend, and that disabled Rosetta. Version 1.1 brought it back. -
When I print to “Adobe PDF” from Safari, the last several lines are compressed leaving blank space at the bottom of the page where the normal size lines would normally be. This does not occur when printing from Internet Explorer or MS Word. I am running Windows 7 on a Dell Laptop. Anyone know of a solution?
When I print to “Adobe PDF” from Safari, the last several lines are compressed leaving blank space at the bottom of the page where the normal size lines would normally be. This does not occur when printing from Internet Explorer or MS Word. I am running Windows 7 on a Dell Laptop. Anyone know of a solution?
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For some reason, I am no longer able to save or print PDFs that I download from the internet. This problem developed in the past 2 days, and I never had this problem before. I am able to see the PDF when I download it, but when I go to the saved file, I get a message saying that the file can't be opened because it is empty. In other cases, I would get a message saying the Adobe Reader couldn't open the file because it is not supported, and I also get a message saying that the website blocked Adobe Reader. When I try to print, I get a blank page. I had been using Preview as default to read my PDFs. I thought maybe the problem was that I should be using Adobe Reader as default, so I switched to that. That didn't help the situation. Then, I tried removing all my versions of Adobe Reader entirely from my computer. I could, however, not figure out how to set Preview as default, again, and I still was not able to save or print any PDFs. Next, I installed the latest version of Adobe Reader, fresh, in my computer. Now I'm back to square 1. And I still don't know how to set Preview as the default reader. But I don't think that's going to make any difference, as it was the default reader when this problem began. My operating system is OS X 10.8.5. My Safari is 6.1.3. Please help!
Plus, as I said, I had this problem BEFORE I used the Adobe Reader as the default. In fact, I switched from Preview, to Reader as the default only because I was having the problem and I thought it would help (which it didn't). I would now like to switch back to Preview as the default, but don't know how to do this. Can you tell me how?
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