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Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
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.
Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
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...
Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
Nah, just go into Adobe Reader Prefs and disable it.
Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
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.
Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
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.
Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
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.
Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files
When using Apple's PDF handing, control-click to see the controls. |
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