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View PDF files in Safari with Reader 7
Authored by: KingDoom on Jan 20, '05 01:45:52PM

I agree with Rob that Adobe 7 is a nicer, more capable PDF reader for Safari than Schubert.

As noted earlier, however, Schubert no longer opens in other browsers--Preview wants to open them. I haven't figured out how to get Schubert to now open in Camino.



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View PDF files in Safari with Reader 7
Authored by: magir on Jan 20, '05 03:48:38PM

type "about:plugins" as a URL and hit return. You'll probably see nothing (because the Camino-guys still haven't implemented that) but sometimes this triggers the activation of the plugin and it may work again. If not I guess the Adobe-Plugin is superseeding the "Schubert"-Plugin, in this case it might help to move the Adobe-Plugin somewhere else, where only Safari can find it (no idea if there is a place - probably somewhere within the safari package).



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View PDF files in Safari with Reader 7
Authored by: windrag on Jan 20, '05 04:29:07PM
The Adobe plugin gives me the following error mesage:
Safari can't open the page "http://anygiven site.com/anygivenpdf.pdf". The error was: "Cannot load plug-in" (WebKitErrorDomain:203) Please choose Report Bug to Apple from the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message.
Despite this warning, the pdf seems to load fine. Anyone else notice this?

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View PDF files in Safari with Reader 7
Authored by: cisko on Jan 21, '05 11:27:15PM

I'm experiencing the same problem. I put a post on the Adobe Reader Forum outlining the behavior but have not received any hints as to the cause:

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@85.ffP5dYWSHcE.2@.3bb7b45c/1

I noticed that Swift in this thread also appears to have this same problem.



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View PDF files in Safari with Reader 7
Authored by: meldavid on Mar 19, '05 01:31:03AM

I got the same error message as well. I disabled it by using a different PDF plug-in and turning off Adobe's PDF plug-in.

To turn off the Adobe PDF Internet plug-in for Safari, just launch Adobe Reader 7, go to its Preferences, click on the Internet tab, and un-tick the box that says, "Display PDF in Browser using".

Then download this plug-in (free for personal use) and follow its installation directions.

http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/




Hope that helps!



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View PDF files in Safari with Reader 7
Authored by: KingDoom on Jan 20, '05 08:58:33PM

Thanks for the tip. I didn't try it b/c Schubert started working in Camino again, without me doing anything. There is quite a bit of discussion about this at the Camino forums. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=188140



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Nobody else has this strange behavior?
Authored by: Swift on Jan 20, '05 11:23:39PM

In Safari, immediately after installing Adobe Reader 7, I just happened to click on a pdf, and was amazed to see the Adobe plugin pop up. But since the beginning, it's been strange: very, very fast, faster than Schubert, but a dialog pops up first, saying "Can't open <address.pdf>, and then, it opens it -- but half the dialog is living behind it. I have to click on the half-hidden dialog and then press return to get rid of it. With Firefox, the pdf is downloaded, and then up pops the full Acrobat 7.0 app with the said doc. This is also very fast, frankly, and on my G5, the Reader seems at least as fast as Preview. I'm still exploring the little hidden feature. Frankly? I think Adobe got scared by Preview, and they knew what a clunker they had in 6.0.

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