Disabling Safari 2.0 PDF viewing PLEASE!!

Hi everyone. I'm running Safari 2.0 under Tiger. Often, I access documents as PDF files. I need these to be accessible and saved on my desktop, as Acrobat (not Preview) files. Safari opens these automatically. I used to be able to save them by printing the page to a PDF file, but now when Safari opens a PDF file, the "print to PDF" option is greyed out.
I like Safari, but this feature is driving me bonkers and unless I can disable it and have the PDF file downloaded to my desktop for use by the application of my choice, I shall have no alternative but to change my default browser (to Camino most likely).
Any advice on this? Many thanks, Grant

Hi Grant,
I used to be able to save them by printing the page to a PDF file, but now when Safari opens a PDF file, the "print to PDF" option is greyed out.
Have you tried pressing command+s instead?

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