It seems that the latest update to QuickTime has gained rudimentary support for PDFs. Using Safari, try clicking a link to a PDF and rather than downloading, the PDF should display within Safari. Dragging and dropping a PDF on Safari also works. I see no sign of navigation for multipage PDFs, thus only the first page displays with no zooming control.
In the MIME Settings portion of the QuickTime system prefs panel, there is now a checkbox for PDF in the still images category.
One other QuickTime change I've noticed is that the QuickTime logo often displays briefly as a flash animation begins loading within Safari.
[robg adds: In order to make this work on my machine, I had to change the MIME setting first -- it wasn't enabled by default. After seeing how it worked, I quickly went back and disabled it! The PDF Broswer plug-in provides much nicer support for inline viewing of PDF files.]
In the MIME Settings portion of the QuickTime system prefs panel, there is now a checkbox for PDF in the still images category.
One other QuickTime change I've noticed is that the QuickTime logo often displays briefly as a flash animation begins loading within Safari.
[robg adds: In order to make this work on my machine, I had to change the MIME setting first -- it wasn't enabled by default. After seeing how it worked, I quickly went back and disabled it! The PDF Broswer plug-in provides much nicer support for inline viewing of PDF files.]
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