Reader & PDF's in Safari

On a Mac suddenly Reader 10.14 won't display PDFs in Safari & Firefox. In both I get a black page instead of a pdf. Even when I attempt to view this question I get a black screen.

Did you try running Safari in 64bit mode. To do this follow steps below:
1. Go to /Applications
2. Ctrl+click on Safari icon
3. Select Get Info
4. Now uncheck the option "Open in 32bit mode"
5. Quit safari and launch again.
Similarly run Firefox in 32bit mode
hope this helps,
hit.anand

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After I installed Adobe CS3 I have not been able to read pdf's in Safari but can in Explorer. Please help.
Thanks.

I'm not trying to convince you! I accept that Adobe's products have value for certain professionals, and given that Acrobat and the pdf format is one of their specialities, I'd be surprised if despite all the development and investment they put into it their product had no advantages over Apple's give-away reader.
Adobe Reader is free as well - as are the plugins that come with it. I just opened a medical study PDF in Preview - none of the actions worked.
I just don't see how a sales pitch for Adobe is relevant to the OPs problem. You don't need an Adobe plug-in to view pdfs in Safari. I've been getting by without it for years (I just checked and 2010 was the last date I had and Adobe plug-in installed). More to the point, the OPs problem is almost certainly caused by an old Adobe plug-in that needs to be removed.
It's not a sales pitch - it's the correct answer to the OPs problem. If he/she wants to view PDF files inline using Safari, they will need to install Adobe Reader, which also installs the "AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin". If he/she doesn't want the content displayed correctly, then they can leave the plugin alone.
It's that simple.
Clinton

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Just recently I cannot read pdf files from Safari. The file shows up as dark space. I don't know why? Guessing I changed something that caused it. Any ideas?

Back up all data.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, the copy the selected text to the Clipboard (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, remove any items that have "Adobe" or “PDF” in the name. You may be prompted for your login password. Then quit and relaunch Safari, and test.
The "Silverlight" web plugin distributed by Microsoft can also interfere with PDF display in Safari, so you may need to remove it as well, if it's present.
If you still have the issue, repeat 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 again.

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A grey screen opens. How can I reset that so I can open PDF files in Safari?

Back up all data.
In the Finder, select Go ▹ Go to Folder from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-G. Copy the line of text below into the box that opens, and press return:
/Library/Internet Plug-ins
From the folder that opens, remove any items that have the letters “PDF” in the name. You may be prompted for your login password. Then quit and relaunch Safari, and test.
If you still have the issue, repeat 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 again.

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I accidently deleted the Internet Plug-in to read PDF files in 10.5. The plug in is located in /Macintosh HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
I believe it is called "Adobe Acrobat ???" (or something like this)
If someone could post it or e-mail it to me, I'd be one grateful person!
Thanks!!
e-mail to deut3221 AT mac.com
Thanks.

you can download Adobe Reader for free from Adobe.com. It will read PDF files, you shouldn't need someone to email you a copy.

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Quit Safari.
Open the Library folder in your home folder as follows:
☞ If running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar.
☞ If running an older version of Mac OS X, select Go ▹ Go to Folder… from the Finder menu bar and enter “~/Library” (without the quotes) in the text box that opens.
Delete the following items from the Library folder:
Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Preferences/com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist
Preferences/QuickTime Preferences
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I had the same problem. Do you have Tinker Tool on your system by any chance? That turned out to be my problem. I had followed the advice of other posters to 1. Look for the Adobe PDF plug-in in Library/Internet Plug-ins. (That was not on my system.) 2. Then I changed the default viewer for PDF files on my computer from Skim back to Preview. (Select any PDF file on your computer, press Command I, and change Open with to Preview, then select the Change All button.) That didn't help me either.
Then I remembered I had TinkerTool, and I solved the mystery, at least on my computer. Although I did an erase and install, I had then used Migration Assistant to copy over personal settings from my Firewire backup. Apparently one of these settings files was for TinkerTool. When I finally thought to launch TinkerTool today, I noticed that under Safari, the box next to “Disable native support for viewing PDF files” was checked. I unchecked that, relaunched Safari, and voila! Now Safari loads the PDF file in a browser window with the little PDF toolbar. I hope this works for you as well.
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I tried opening the PDF docs while using Firefox and a notification came up to install the Schubert-it plug-in. I downloaded and installed the plug-in in Safari and I can now open PDF docs. Thanks for the help.
http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/
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Have you tried opening a Terminal window and entering this command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool False
After you exit Terminal and restart Safari, that should enable viewing PDF files in the browser window. Keep in mind that if you're looking at a site designed for Windows users, they could have coded it to allow viewing in IE, but not other browsers or other platforms. In that case, you will have to download it and then delete it when you're done viewing it.
If the above doesn't work, you should try downloading Acrobat Reader and installing it, which will then handle viewing of PDFs in the browser window. Be sure to turn off the previous command before you do that, by opening Terminal and typing:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool True
Then exit Terminal and restart Safari and try again.
Mulder

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nogdog21 wrote:
I am reading an article suggesting that I can use boot utility to format all drives if I boot into the recovery partition. From there I can reinstall using the internet recovery. Is this a wise move to avoid buying Snow Leopard?
The Early 2011 Mac originally came with 10.6
10.7 and 10.8 are paid upgrades tied to the previous owners AppleID, therefore you can't apply security updates to that previous owners copy as you don't have their AppleID and password.
The object to go back to Snow Leopard 10.6 is so that when you upgrade to 10.8, it's yours and you can upgrade all your paid software and operating system through the AppStore concept.
Later, if you need to erase and install 10.8 fresh, then yes, you use Internet Recovery or RecoveryHD as then your AppleID and password will work as intended and there is no need to use the 10.6 disks any longer, they can be sold if you wish as you don't have 10.6 on the machine anymore.

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I cannot read my online magasine with my iPad.
When I open it as PDF with safari, I can read the first few pages but then it freezes and safari just shuts down. It's very frustrating!
There was a similar post to this in the Mac section where they suggest deleting all cookies, history and cache. I tried that but it does not solve the problem.
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It seems that the problem is due to safari crashing with memory overload.
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And carefully read what Adobe advise customers to do:
"Adobe recommends customers stay with Mac OS 10.6 and Safari 5.0.x in order for in-browser use cases to continue to function."
Apple Safari 5.1 and Adobe Reader/Acrobat Advisory
As of today Safari can not display the pdf files from the on-line libraries around the globe but the user can download the pdf file, and then it shows up.
I guess this is yet another reason to stay with the 10.6.8 Mac OS.

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The acrobat PDF viewer does not open when reading PDF files in Safari. The pdf file is opened with "preview" in safari instead. How do I get the PDF viewer to work with Safari. I have installed the acrobat reader and it detected that PDF viewer was not installed and installed it but it still doesn't open in a pdf viewer format.
Any solutions?

Songstress,
I believe that this problem can happen if you have conflicting PDF plug-ins in your Macintosh HD/Library/Internet Plugins folder. If you want to use Adobe's readers, you can use Acrobat's "Repair" option (I believe it's under the Help menu in Acrobat Pro. If you prefer to use Apple's own reader, remove Adobe's PDF plugin from the above-mentioned folder. You may want to check out Manfred Shubert's popular PDF Browser plugin (http://www.shubert-it.com/).
Also, it would be work checking your ~/Library/Internet Plugins folder (in your Home directory). That is normally empty, so if you have a PDF plugin there, it could be messing things up.
Ric

Preview cannot read pdf

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

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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http://www.askdavetaylor.com/fix_blank_pdf_viewer_in_mac_safari.html
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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.
Great Web Site , I subscribed after that ! Hope this helps !
diamonblues

Why Acrobat Reader doesn't open pdf-files from Safari?

I'm new Mac user and cannot find answer why I cannot open pdf-files directly from Safari. My Macbook OS X 10.9.3 and Safari is 7.0.4. Only way to open pdf-files is to download the content first and then open it. If I try to open it directly Acrobat says "Before proceeding you must first launch Adobe Acrobat and accept the end user license agreement". I have downloaded Acrobat Reader several times already and cannot understand what I'm doing wrong.

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 or save PDF's displayed in Safari, you may be able to do so by moving the cursor to the the bottom edge of the page, somewhere near the middle. A black toolbar should appear under the cursor. Click the printer or disk 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 by pressing 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.

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