Preview cannot read pdf

Question

Trying to open a pdf that I got from the bank, this is what I get

Answer 1

Hi,
There, ? using Safari also ...
This worked for Me (happened after a Adobe Update and still does > doing them on
occasion (So I kept a pdf of the Q&A and Link Also (FULL CREDIT to Dave Taylor)
? are You using Adobe Reader (Free ) yet , or this may apply to Preview as well
in some rare cases , I had the same issue and nearly drove me bats, then came across a fix from a web site =........
" Ask Dave Taylor " a Mac-PC A-Z tech site unofficial,
Fix blank PDF viewer in Mac Safari? from Ask Dave Taylor!®
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Every time I go to a PDF link in Safari on my iMac I just get a blank, gray screen. At first I thought that they were big PDF files that needed to download, but nope, it's just a blank screen without the document ever showing up. If I view it in a different browser, the document comes up just fine, and if I save it as a file to view with Viewer, it's fine. But I want to read PDF files in Safari itself. Is that no longer an option?
Dave's Answer:
Modern web browsers like Safari use a lot of helper apps, separate programs that let them know what to do with unusual file types like an .mp4 movie or, in this case, a portable document format (PDF) file. Normally it works fine and most people end up using Adobe's PDF Viewer plug-in for their Web browsing, letting you easily click on and view PDFs to your heart's content.
Except sometimes when there's a glitch in how things are set up in Safari on a Mac OS X system.
For reasons that I really don't understand, what appears to be the case is that Mac OS X ships with a broken PDF plug-in, but even with the very latest system patch, the problem's still present. And here's
what you see... Instead of viewing the PDF document in question, it's just a gray screen::
(Then displayed gray- screen )
To say that's frustrating is an understatement! When I first hit this problem, I just switched to a different Web browser entirely, which is rather a dramatic solution if you think about it.
Instead, let's fix it.
To do that, use Spotlight to find a plugin called AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin. Simply click on the magnifying glass icon on the very top right of your screen and type in that plugin name:
Click on "Show All In Finder" (since there should only be one) and you'll see this:
Delete the plugin. No, really. You'll see, it'll work because Safari actually has a built-in PDF viewer capability that doesn't need the Adobe software available:
That's it. Now quit and restart Safari and go back to the very same PDF URL and
Why there's a broken plugin included with Mac OS X I cannot explain, but this'll fix things and you'll be good to go, no gray screen of non-viewing, just happy PDF files.
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