PDF plugin on Mac

The "official" (or at least, recommended by your FAQ) PDF plugin on Mac isn't supported on FF4 (well, you can compile it to be ran on FF4, but it needs to be ran in 32 bit). Since development on this plugin has stalled, what will you do about it? Chrome has a built-in plugin, and since Core Image provides support for PDF reading, it wouldn't be that hard to implement either... (please note that I have no coding knowledge, so I work on that, but I'd love to :) )
For the record, I uninstalled it since it wasn't supported and I now use Preview to open PDFs. But it's very annoying.

The following link may help, it has a version of the add-on that works in 32 bit mode - http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/issues/detail?id=189

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Firefox Plugin check says:
Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OS X
Displays PDF documents in the browser. Unknown plugin
yet I got it via Mozilla plugins.
So it's in the Firefox data base. What's the latest version?

Sorry for the delay in getting an answer, but there don't seem to be any advanced level Mac-users helping do support in this forum. <br />
1. Mozilla didn't supply that Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OSX, it is probably part of your PDF reader program, or maybe it came with your Mac operating system.
2. Lack of Plugin version information is something Mozilla has been working on for that Plugin Check page. The problem with fixing it is that there is no standard among Plugin developers for making the version number of their Mozilla Plugin available for Mozilla to locate and display. If you look at your own '''''More system details...''''' in your original posting, you can see the problems Mozilla faces when trying to fix the Plugin Check service. Eight Plugins recognized by this forums software and only the last 2 in the listing reveal the plugin version number to a website - Silverlight and Flash.<br />
* Displays PDF documents in the browser.
* Gecko default plugin
* Runs Java applets using the latest installed versions of Java. For more information: Java Embedding Plugin. Run version test: Java Information.
* RealPlayer Plugin
* The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
* The Flip4Mac WMV Plugin allows you to view Windows Media content using QuickTime.
* 4.0.50917.0
* Shockwave Flash 10.1 r102

I need a Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OS X for the new version 4.0 Why would I want to download this if I can't view PDF files. What a joke! When will this be available????

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Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:'''1.9.0.11''') Gecko/'''2009060214''' Firefox/'''3.0.11 FBSMTWB'''
Your users agent is stuck at Firefox 3.0.11 due to a extension during when you had 3.0.11 and it tacked on stuff on end and kept it from updating the version number. This was due to the "Fast Browser Search toolbar" extension (FBSMTWB). This issue is not a problem with Firefox 4.0 and newer.
See this on how to reset it to normal. https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/websites%20or%20add-ons%20incorrectly%20report%20incompatible%20browser#w_reset-your-user-agent

Can I use Adobe PDF plugin in Chrome on a Mac?

I'm on a Mac.
I would like to use the Adobe Reader PDF viewer in Chrome instead of the built-in Chrome PDF viewer.
I went to Chrome:Plugins to disable the Chrome PDF viewer, but noticed that the Adobe Reader PDF plugin is not there.
I then went to Library/Internet Plug-ins and I do see the AdobePDFViewer.plugin file.
Is the Adobe PDF Viewer compatible with Chrome on Mac?

See http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/pdf-browser-plugin-configuration.html

Adobe Reader's Internet Plugins for Mac OSX

Every time I upgrade or reinstall Adobe Reader on Mac OSX I have to delete the plugins installed in my library to stop Reader being my default pdf viewer in Safari.
Isn't it time your apps worked like everyone elses and gave the USER the option to select which viewer to use as the default?
It really annoys me that I have to go through this tedious process after all these years just because Adobe hasn't fixed the problem. I am now a little cynical about the company's motivation - I may even think that Reader is so ugly, clunky and resource heavy that it's the only way they can get anyone to use it!
You may say "Why install it?" Because some forms demand Reader to complete the field electronically - otherwise I would.

I'm encountering the same problem on the two computers below. Email attachments will open in the same manner. Attempts to download or open PDFs on the Internet result in a black page with no content or the warning you've noted above.
Macbook pro 15 running 10.8.4
Mac Mini running 10.8.4
I am able to open PDFs on a Mac pro 17 running 10.7.5. I have used airdrop to move the document to one of the above two computers. This results in the original file becoming corrupted and unable to open and the file moved to the other computer will also state that it is corrupted.
There is clearly something amiss in Adobe and Mac working together. (And it is causing considerable frustration at this point.)
I should add, I have the full Adobe PDF product on the Mac Mini.

I can't print a PDF created in MAC with window 8.1?

En pdf-fil skapad i MAC går inte att skriva ut med Wondows 8.1

Hi.
The problem is now fixed by help of HP.
Best regards
Lars Hansson
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Från: Ajlan huda
Skickat: den 7 november 2014 08:28
Till: Lars Hansson
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Why can't I print a pdf from my mac pro to my printer?

why can't I print a pdf from my mac pro to my printer?

Don't know! You'll have to give us more details of what's happening when you try. Can you print other documents OK? When you try to print, does the printer icon appear in the dock - click on it and see if there are any printer messages.
Matt

How can I annotate a PDF on a Mac, and search by the annotations in Dropbox on iOS?

So, I have a handwritten journal, and I scanned it. Now it's a 45 page PDF. I want to annotate the PDF on my Mac (or my iPad), dump the file in Dropbox, and then be able to search by the annotations via an iOS device. So if I annotate a page as "Meeting with Nick - October 10, 2013", I want to be able to search (within Dropbox on an iOS device) and find that page later. I want to be able to search for "Nick" and it will bring up that page, and any other page where I annotated with the word Nick.
Whew. Make sense? I'm hoping to avoid Adobe Acrobat Pro, if possible. Annotations that I make in Preview don't seem to show up when I view the PDF in Dropbox. Got any suggestions?
Thanks!

w7ox wrote:
I use Adobe Reader XI for that. Not sure you can search for annotations, but worth a try. Free.
I've done some tests with Adobe reader, but I don't see it working. I can make annotations in Reader (or in Acrobat or in Preview) but when I save the new file, and try to view it using a program like Dropbox, the annotations are not displayed, nor are they searchable..

Text-to-speech no longer working in any PDF apps in Mac 10.8.5.

Text-to-speech is no longer working in any PDF apps in Mac 10.8.4/5. Does anyone know the software component that passes highlight text over to the speech synthesiser? How is this process different in PDF's compared to any other text format?
So far I have tried Preview, Skim, PDFView, Safari, Evernote and Adobe Reader with the result: silence. The only defference being Adobe Reader which speaks the name of the document and not the highlighted text. I've re-applied the Mac OS10.8.5 como-update, fixed prefs, ran FSCheck and changed user. I've tried every method of triggering the text-to-speech function (including custom scripts). Text-to-speech works perfectly in every other respect exept when working with PDF's. When Maveriks arrives I will do a clean install and rebuild my data manually which I'm pretty certain will fix the problem but it would be extremely rewarding to find an actual solution and learn something in the process.

Rawr! I got it to work, sort of. I think I tried so hard because I hated the thought of using alsa-oss. And I discovered a couple bugs in spd-conf! Does anyone care? lol
Basically, I redid my TTS-related configs & put them under ~/ instead of /usr/share, and ran "festival --server" & "speech-dispatcher -s" as a normal user. I also added myself to the "audio" group somewhere along the line, but I don't think that was the issue.
I'm almost afraid to reboot, because, although speech-dispatcher can be started at boot-time through rc.conf's DAEMONS array, I don't think festival can---at least, not in the same way as it can on distros that have the script /etc/default/festival. I'm about to see if I can track down that file, and hope I don't break everything somehow.
KTTSMgr still doesn't see any synthesizers, but I got past the "dummy module" message. Now I'm hoping I'll get some help from someone who actually knows what to do (as opposed to me).
Take care, all
H
P.S One small complaint: Although my speechd.conf specified port 6561, speech-dispatcher's tests showed that it was looking for a connection on port 6560 first, before scanning to find the real port. I had to change to port 6560 to stop the behaviour, even though I never customized the port number in the first place.
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Why is the text not the visible in the protected PDF opened on Mac?

Long story short:
I've created a document in Microsoft Word 2010 and saved it as PDF. With the .pdf open now in Acrobat Reader 9.4.1 I have enabled the protection over the .pdf file by only allowing Printing and saved the protected .pdf. All of these actions are made on Windows 7 machine. Now when trying to open the protected .pdf on Mac (with Snow Leopard 10.6.6 and Preview) the .pdf opened only shows the lines and bullets but not the text.
Why is the text not visible in the protected PDF opened on Mac?
(is this bug or a "feature"?)
Note: the protected .pdf looks good on Windows 7 and it works on Mac if the .pdf has no protection.
Thanks!

A. What application are you using to add the protection? Reader cannot add any file security and I don't think the PDF feature of Word will either.
B. Mac Preview has issues with PDF standards so there may be some features that you will experience issues with that have no workarounds.
C. Have you checked the file after adding security to see if all fonts are embedded?

"Save to Adobe PDF" missing in Mac print dialog

I've just upgraded to a new machine, and the "Save to Adobe PDF" option is missing from the PDF drop-down menu in the print dialogue. I'm running Mac OS 10.8.3 and CS 6. I believe that Acrobat X is supposed to automatically install this option into the main print dialog; what can I do to get it installed if it got left out of the initial CS6 installaion?

OK thank you. I feel like I'm still not quite getting my question across. I don't think that PDF Maker is what I was using last week before I got a new machine; wasn't that the thing that showed up in the upper portion of the Print dialog, in amongst your physical printers? That is not what I was using. I was using the Save to Adobe PDF.app (an Automator app) that stays in the PDF Services folder in the Library. You access it via the PDF button in the bottom left of the Print dialog. This was using Acrobat 9 and OS 10.6.
Your description above makes it sound like when I go to that button I would get a contextual menu that lets me choose the quality of the PDF. I don't have that choice. This is the contextual menu I get under PDF in the Print dialog:
I used to have an additional entry there in the middle section called Save to Adobe PDF. That brought up a dialog with a drop down menu that showed all of the preset settings I have made for PDF creation, and I could choose my quality there, choose a location, and save. I had full control over all the settings. I just need a choice that brings up that dialog, and Save as PDF doesn't do it (it just uses the native OS PDF generator).
The second method does not work on my machine either. If I try to drag a Word doc into Acrobat it tells me it is not a supported file type, and says "To create an Adobe PDF document, go to the source application. Then print the document to Adobe PDF." this indicates to me that somewhere I should still have the ability to choose Adobe PDF rather than Mac OS PDF.
I can save to PostScript and drop the file onto Distiller -- as long as the Distiller settings are set correctly already, because it starts creating the PDF immediately with no dialog in between to make choices. I can live with that, but I would rather have my Automator workflow back to do it in one step. (sadly I don't know enough about Automator right now to easily do this myself, but maybe this is a good chance to learn.)
I know that I have seen this workflow mentioned as something that is installed along with Acrobat X but maybe people are mistaken about that and it was just left over from a previous install. I know for sure that the workflow that was working on the old machines was outdated; it was 32-bit and can't even be opened in the current version of Automator. So the old one clearly won't work any more. For now I'm going to set up a Distill folder on my desktop with the settings I use most often, and direct my PS files there.
Thanks for the detailed reply even though I can't quite make it all work!

Pdf's from mac to playbook, reader won't open?

I saved pdf files from mac to documents folder on playbook , I launch acrobat reader, I see pdf files but when i try to open, an error message appears that says "file path not valid". Can anyone shed some light on this?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

go into the option ( the gear at the top right ), then in security/applications and change the Adobe reader permission to ALLOWED, and it should fix your problem
Using the Playbook and the Z10 and the Z30 and loving them
Martin

Cannot print a pdf off my mac 10.6.x. I can print all other files Epson printer 'Cancelling'

Cannot print any pdf from my mac to Epson printer
I can print all other files except pdf
Using the most updated Adobe Reader XI
Using the latest driver for the printer from Epson
Using a USB cable
Whats up?

I have the same problem, I cannot print ANY PDF file from my Mac running 10.8.5 Mountain Lion and using Adobe ReaderXI 11.0.4 I have verified that all files print properly when printed from within Preview or within Libre office. There is no option in the Mac Adobe reader to reset the installation like there is on Windows. I have also tried deleting reader completely and re-installing and the same behavior.

Problem opening a PDF on a MAC

I tried to open a PDF on a MAC and received the following msg:
Please wait...
If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display this type of document.
You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for Windows®, Mac, or Linux® by visiting http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
For more assistance with Adobe Reader visit http://www.adobe.com/support/products/ acrreader.html.
Windows is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.
I downloaded the latest version and am still getting the same message. Any suggestions?

Try the suggestions in post#6 by Mike M in the following thread: Re: Can't Open PDF form in Adobe Reader 11.0.3 on Mac OSX 10.8.4 Intel
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Cannot open PDF files on Mac

I cannot open PDFs on my Mac but can open the same files on my PC. When I create a PDF from the computer and when I send it to our office printer as a scan-PDF, I cannot open either. Have downloaded Adobe Acrobat, etc., and still waiting for a response from them. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Don't use Acrobat, use Preview. Preview is already pre-installed on your computer. If you cannot locate it, type Command-Shift (opens Spotlight) and type in Preview and hit return.

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