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Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
Authored by: solfege on Apr 26, '05 04:09:51PM

perhaps slightly off topic, but how would one go about disabling the acrobat pdf support so as to even *see* the effects of apple's native support. I'd like to try this before deciding what else I want to do.

Or am I just being dense and not realizing that the command you posted here will do that?



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Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
Authored by: Black on Apr 26, '05 06:08:49PM

You need to find Adobe's PDF plugin and move it. It is probably lurking in /Library/Internet Plugins (though it may be in your personal Library, depending on how you installed reader). Just pull that out to your Desktop or something and restart Safari. However, as others have mentioned above - it doesn't seem to work in Panther...



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Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
Authored by: turnerm5 on Apr 26, '05 09:09:38PM

Nah, just go into Adobe Reader Prefs and disable it.



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Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
Authored by: msk on Sep 07, '05 09:33:25AM

Unless of course those Adobe Reader Internet preferences are grayed out as on my system, perhaps because I'm not logged in as adminstrator which Adobe Reader 7.0 needs in order to install it's plugin into the Safari Bundle -- why mess around with plugins in the user's Application Support folder when you can just modify the Application itself.

You don't really browse the web using an administrator account do you?



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Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
Authored by: msk on Sep 07, '05 10:52:50AM

You need admin privileges to disable the Adobe Reader 7.0 Plugin, first you need to log in as Adminstrator and launch Adobe Reader 7.0 and choose preferences (cmd-K - nonstandard), down in Internet unclick the first two items.

Problem is when you log into a non-admin account Reader 7.0 will ask for admin username/password so it can install Frameworks in Safari. If you can't or won't Adobe Reader quits.

So you need to set the preferences in an admin account before you use Reader 7.0 in a non-admin account; otherwise, remove \~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.* in the non-admin account.

If you can't get the Internet preferences disabled in Reader 7.0 in the non-admin accounts either copy an admin preference file "com.adobe.Reader7.0.plist" or try editting that file using the Property List Editor (if you installed the Developer Tools).

Under the section Originals, look for BrowserCheck and BrowserIntegration. If BrowserCheck doesn't exist select Originals and clcik button New Child, change the "New Item" to "BrowserCheck", change it to an array, then expand the disclosure triangle and press New Child, change it to "Number" with value of 0 and hit "New Sibling" button and change it to Boolean with value of No.

If you convert it to text you would get:

<key>Originals</key>
<dict>
<key>BrowserCheck</key>
<array>
<integer>0</integer>
<false/>
</array>

Next do the same for BrowserIntegration if it does not exist.

Preventing Adobe Reader 7.0 from messing with Safari is very hard, perhaps impossible. The closest I came was by "fixing" "com.adobe.acrobat.sh.plist", open with property editor and change "NoSelfHealNeeded" to "Yes". Problem is that Adobe Reader will undo this everytime it is launched unless you get fancy with the premissions of ~/Library/Preferences (simple changing of the premissions of this file is bypassed by Adobe Reader 7.0).

Reader also installs a plugin directory in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/.

The ends that Adobe will go to to modify your non-Adobe applications should give serious reason to avoid using Adobe Reader.



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Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
Authored by: ebernet on Apr 26, '05 06:31:23PM

Just so as you know, Apple's handling of PDFs is displaying them as an image (or a scrolling image). There are no controls whatsoever. It is really quite lame. I went back to using SchubertITs excellent plug-in.



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Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
Authored by: silentaccord on Apr 27, '05 06:09:17AM

When using Apple's PDF handing, control-click to see the controls.



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