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This issue just started today but any time I click on a PDF and do a "Save As" out of Safari I am getting the following error message:
The document "document name" could not be exported as "save file name"
Never had any issues w/ this before today and I frequently save PDFs through Safari. Any help is appreciated.
Jared

I am also no longer able to Save As... a pdf in Safari. On another thread I read that after updating Acrobat Reader, as I, too, did a couple of days ago, a user could not save Safari pdf files. He discovered a new Adobe plugin in the Library/Internet Plugins folder (not user library) called AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin. Moving this to my Disabled Plug-Ins folder or trashing this allows one to Save As... pdf files from Safari. I have no idea what this plugin does, so I'm not sure this is an appropriate fix. I probably can't do something in Acrobat Reader now.

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