Trouble Viewing PDF's in Safari

When I click on a pdf to read it, I get a black screen and a message that " ADobe Reader blocked for this website" If I click on the message, it gives me a window that allows me to Trust the site and then will open the pdf. It won't allow me to download the pdf. If I try to print the pdf, it give me black pages. I can get things to work with Google Chrome, but I should be able to do it all in Safari.
What tdo I need to do to get Safari to fluidly read PDFs and to let me download them and print them? I do have Acrobat Pro X 10.1.9. But I can't find where in preferences to tell it to use this program and to Trust it. I have the same problem on my iMac with Lion and my MBP with Mavericks.

This may help.
http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/blocked-plugin-alert-safari-7.html
Best.

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