Safari can't handle PDFs???

Safari 4.0.5 can't read pdfs... it cannot be configured to open pdfs with Preview. Lemme guess: We can use only Adobe products...
Firefox is too slow... Chrome hangs or crashes every few minutes... and now Safari can't handle pdfs. It's useless...

Safari forums - http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=169
Firefox forums - http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=4
Chrome forums - http://www.chromeplugins.org/google/

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Safari can´t read PDFs

My Safari don´t open PDFs that I can read with no problems with Firefox.
Does anybody know what happens?
Regards.

I too have had Safari quit and/or hang when trying to view PDFs. I recently loaded Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 (CS2 version) so I was suspicious it might be the problem.
Here was how I fixed it:
1) Download latest Adobe Acrobat Reader (9.0 at this time) & install
2) Quit Safari
3) Open Adobe Acrobat Professional
4) Select Acrobat:Preferences:Internet
5) Click the top check box: "Display PDF in browser using:"
6) Select Acrobat Reader in the list box
7) Open Safari & navigate to a PDF link or try this one - http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf
8) Reader may ask you to input your password for access. Enter Password.
9) Document should open now.

Safari can't handle some links...

When I go to this link http://library.louisville.edu/research/mathematics/index.html and then click on MathSciNet, I get the following message: Safari can't open the specified address. This does not happen in Firefox (Mac) or any Window's browser. Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks.

Well, not exactly. It's supposed to take me to a "log in from home" page, so that I can download material from the mathsci as a UofL student. If I go directly to the mathsci website, I wouldn't be able to download material from it.
Safari will not display this "log in from home" page.... but Firefox (Mac) and windows' browsers will...
Thanks though.

Safari can't open PDF files?

My Safari 1.3.1 operating in MacOS 10.3.9 cannot open any PDF files. Whenever I click on a link from which a PDF file can be downloaded, Safari asks me to select an Acrobat application. I do select Acrobat Reader 7.0.7 from my Applications folder, but then Safari only gives me a blank window, with no PDF file to view. The problem is likely in Safari, because I've also tried to open the PDF files stored in my own webpage, which I know that open and read well with other web browsers. I've also read the Help area of Safari, but it gave no useful clue to solve this problem. I have two eMacs and this same problem happens in both computers, that is, I can't open any PDF file using Safari! Does anyone know how to do it? Please write me back to [email protected]
Thanks,
Ricardo
eMac Mac OS X (10.3.9) Safari 1.3.1 and Acrobat Reader 7.0.7

I have already set the Desktop folder as the download destination. Safari simply does not put the PDF files there. Again, it asks me for the application to use, I choose AR 7.0.7, but then I get a blank window instead of the opened PDF file that I need to see. If anyboyd knows how to solve this, please let me know. Thanks.

Safari can't find pdf reader

I can't currently read any pdfs while viewing on safari, it states it can't see a pdf viewer. Any ideas how I re-link it to it to acrobat?

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 the letters “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.

Safari - can't download pdf files

In the past few days I have used Safari to go to a number of websites that I use on a weekly basis. I have normally downloaded pdf files of documents. But at present I can't get the pdf file to download.
Jim

Hi James,
As Yang suggests, 'cannot create file' normally suggests that the download folder you have selected is not somewhere you have permissions to write files to. Try changing it to somewhere that should be writable, such as your Desktop and retry the link.
I tried the directions you provided and it works fine here.

Safari can't handle gif 89a? Workaround?

Back in 1998 I made some GIF 89a animations to aid some students and they worked fine. A few years later the animations stopped working. Now they work in Firefox but NOT in Safari 2.0.4 (419.3)
My guess is that Safari only support animated GIFs if they have the format 87a, but not if they have the format 89a. There is (according to GraphicConverter) an important difference between these two formats is that 89a supports transparency while 87a does not. So, in 89a an animated GIF can be made smaller in animations where only a small area changes.
I don't want to buy Quicktime Pro (which probably could convert GIF89a succesfully to .mov). Does anyone know a workaround for this problem?
PowerBook G4, Mac mini intel, … Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Any browser supports 89a format .gif files.
Well my .gif animations played nicely years back (the previous millenia), but they don't now
Here's one that does not work in neither Safari nor Firefox
http://www2.chemeng.lth.se/edu/stella/stellaintro/images/step1.gif
it plays nicely in Quicktime though. Note that what does not work in the browsers is the transparency. It seems that you no longer can rely on the possibility to make an animation where you have a reference image and consecutive changes as compared to that reference. If you, however, make an animation consisting of a number of gifs of the same size then there is no problem.

No drop-own menues in Safari/ Can't resize PDF

When I view PDF pags in Safari, they are almost too small to read. I gather from reading other discussions that I should be able to zoom in and out by command-clicking and choosing zoom from the drop-down menu, but no menu appears. Option clicking also has no effect. I am using a wireless keyboard and mouse, but when I command-click a hyperlink it opens in another window, so I know they must be communicating correctly with the computer.
I am new to Safari and OSX. I am using an iMac Intel Core Duo with 1GB of ram, OSX 10.4.5, and Safari 2.03. Any suggestions?

That Eme's been following me around here all day -
beating me to the points. What she does, is if
there's a new question on here, she emails me, then
while I'm responding to the mail....Game over.
LOL and cry, cry, baby.
I've created a monster! Well done Eme
Thanks Andy. ARRrrgh, no wait that's a Pirate !
Andy they call me mellow yellow ♬ you should of had a star.
Best to you+yours; )
Eme.

Since I upgraded to ios5 safari can't handle the java setting on an internal work web site. When i click on a field it appears to be uncalibrated. How can I add another browser or go back to ios4 till a fix is found?

My current work around is turning java on and off, but all fields are still not active. Please advise. Thank you.

JavaScript is a rather flexible language and not always totally cross-browser, so what works with one browser may not work with another, or even in some cases a revision of one that worked before. Absent corrections to the web site, if the site isn't working on your iPad now, you will indeed probably need a different browser. There's no supported way to downgrade your version of iOS, but there are other web browsers available in the iTunes Store, including Opera Mini and iCab Mobile. One of those might be happier with the JavaScript on your web site. Opera is free, so you might want to try that first.
Regards.

Safari 3(PC) can't handle double-byte characters

I used Safari to browse a Chinese web site. However, there was a lot of BLANK SPACE coz Safari can't show the Chinese contents. Later, I noticed that Safari can't handle those html content that use non-English for the fontface name. If I change the font-face name to English(still the same Chinese font), Safari can display the content. However, it didn't use the font-face.

I am running a windows xp. It is a microsoft XP professional(5.1 build 2600)
intel celeron 1.1ghz
with a 254mb of ram( that is part of a ram card)
I am not running windows 95 it's just my pc is quite old.
I downloaded the flash player 10 archive nothing else but the 10th version and I installed the newest version it had on there.
If there is a better option please tell me. thanks
edit: i am using mozzilla firefox the newest version of it.
Ok I'd like to say this now I pressumed my pc couldn't handle flash palyer 10.3 since the requirments asked ofr higher specs.
AND right before I tried to install it igot rid of my old flash palyer 10 and adobe flash activex.
After that I tried to install the program for firefox yet after I pressed run NOTHING appeared and firefox was off. I keep getting a error that says it couldn't connect or run a script or something from internet explorer.
I've been having these random script errors latly too.
Yet I have cleared up my pc and recently ran anti-malware, anti-virus, and defragmentaion scans,etc and more. (Avast piriform malwarebytes). SO every tiemi did this the program would run underprocesses but it would do absolutly NOTHING so I end up having to stop the process. Each time itry to install it it deletes it'self orsomthing as well from the file I downloaded it to though i pressume that is normal
Unless my problem lies more in the program then my pc then I'm ok.

How can others publish .PDF books to iPhones?!

I have created a cooking book for the iPad using iBook Author, with some fancy layout and formatting. The book looks great.
Now I want to be able to publish it for iPhone as well.
I can see others have their cook books available for iPhone and iPad and it looks identical on both platforms. Having tried to download a few of them, I notice they behave exactly like a .pdf does (I can pinch to zoom, etc).
Now when I try to publish my book to iPhone as a .pdf I'm informed that that is not possible.
Instead I'm guided to using Pages to create an ePub file. But this does not work for two reasons:
1) The formatting tools are horrible, I have to recreate my book from scratch, and I can't get anywhere near the fancy layout and formatting of my iPad version. And the goal is to make it look exactly like my iPad version.
2) As an ePub I can change font size and font, which I don't want. I want my version to behave like a .pdf, just like everyone elses cookbook, so I can retain my fancy layout, fonts and image placements.
I really hope someone can help me here, because it seems I'm doing something horribly wrong.
Thanks in return!

This was so confusing, I looked to find out how others submit pdf-like books.
It makes no sense that I can't submit a pdf to the book store, now that other books behave exactly like pdf, and the iBook app can already handle pdf's.
Google is not my friend on this one, and I even tried to contact Apple...
All help would be much appreciated!
It can't be true that putting a .pdf of my iBook on my iPhone is easy, but putting it on the book store for others to download is such a complex prosedure you have to pay a company to do it.
Why does it have to be an epub format, when it changes nothing for the user experience and looks exactly like a .pdf?
Then something is seriously wrong.
I hope someone with knowledge on this area can explain this.
Help is much apreciated
- Frustrated iBook costumer

Preview and Safari can't open dynamic PDF forms

I had no issues with dynamic PDF forms under OS X 10.6.8, Safari and Preview could open them without a problem. With Lion it is no longer working, Safari and Preview can't open these files, I need to use Adobe Reader or Acrobat.
I just don't like Reader handling PDF's in Safari and now I have no choice until someone or Apple comes with the fix.

Either someone has installed a client side cert into Safari or the site in question has let their SSL cert expire. (not your fault). You could try using Firefox or Chrome instead.

After I installed the recent Apple security patch, I can no longer save PDFs when using Safari. And Firefox no longer can open website PDFs. Any suggestions?

After I installed the recent Apple security patch, I can no longer save PDFs when using Safari. And Firefox no longer can open website PDFs. Any suggestions?

Dansyacht wrote:
If the previous Safari suggestion doesn't work try the following:
In Finder, go to Macintosh HD/Library/Internet Plug-ins and move AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin to the Disabled Plug-ins Folder. Restart Safari. If this works you may just want to delete that FUBAR plug-in.
Thanks. This was the solution for me.
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I can't view PDF files on Safari 5.1 for windows 7, how do I fix this?

I like using Safari 5.1 for my web browser at work (I use a windows 7 machine). But the recent update won't let me view PDF files. I have to open up Google Chrome then copy and paste the address into it so I can view the PDF. How do I fix this?

I use Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro 9.4.5
There are no updates for this. Are you suggesting I unistall then reinstall this?

Since I have Yosemite on my iMac I can't view PDF files in Safari anymore. It keeps telling me to upgrade my Adobe Reader, but it is the latest version. Please help? I don't have this problem on my Macbook that does not have Yosemite installed.

Since I have Yosemite on my iMac I can't view PDF files in Safari anymore. It keeps telling me to upgrade my Adobe Reader, but it is the latest version. Please help? I don't have this problem on my Macbook that does not have Yosemite installed.

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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