Quicktime & PDFs in Safari?

[fischerm]

We had a client come into the Zone today with safari opening all PDFs in a browser window using quicktime. The problem is that it only shows the first page, and you cant switch pages. How do you set safari to not try and open PDFs internally but hand them off to adobe reader?

[lnp]

I believe that if you make the adobe reader the default application for .pdfs you'll solve this problem.

Yar.

[fischerm]

That was my first thought also. However Adobe Reader was already set as the default app in the finder. In fact if you open a PDF from the desktop, it opens fine in reader, it's only if you click on a link to a PDF in safari does it open it (in a new safari tab) using quicktime (you can see the blue Q as it loads). If you option-click to download, and open from the finder, all is good, he's just looking for a single-click option instead of the 4-5 clicks it takes now.

[abudhu]

You can make it so Safari opens the document in a new Safari WINDOW rather than a new tab, which should then load Adobe and solve his problem. Mac...the one right next to the film recorder one does that all the time :) So does the one with the double screen right near it.

[lnp]

Oooh. The young whippersnapper comes up with the W.

[amichel]

There's also this: http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/ which is a little gizmo that lets you do some pdfing within Safari. I have no idea why or how, but this plugin also works for Firefox, with no extra effort, though it isn't able to pipe the output to a different reader from the diamond button, like it does in Safari. In fact, it produces some rather interesting results depending which one it the list you click.

Also, on my PB and my Cube, just installing Adobe Reader 7 and running it once installed the Adobe pdf plugin for Safari, which uses Reader 7 as the plugin to open the pdf in the Safari window. This does NOT work for Firefox, however.

[amichel]

Also available from Schubert is a Word doc plugin that previews a Word document right in the browser window, which is also quite handy at times.